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Timothy Geithner

Timothy Geithner was the Secretary of the Treasury under U.S. President Barack Obama from 2009-13. Geithner spent much of his childhood overseas; his father, Peter Geithner, worked for the Ford…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Old House

The BellThe Happy FamilyThe Old House In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house - it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on…

Skysurfing

Year 1995Fradet/Zipser1996Furrer/Scmid1997Hartman/Pappadato1998Rozov/Burch1999Fradet/Iodice2000Klaus/Rogers2001Event discontinuedBungee JumpingSummer X GamesStreet Luge

The Men of Brewster Place

Author: Gloria Naylor Publisher: Hyperion The Men of Brewster Place is Gloria Naylor's companion piece to 1980's acclaimed novel The Women of Brewster Place. Returning to the same dim…

Regina King

Actress and director Regina King won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her role in the 2018 film If Beale Street Could Talk. Regina King was 13 when she made her TV debut in the TV…

Double Take

Director/Writer:George GalloTouchstone Pictures; PG-13; 88 minutesRelease:1/01Cast:Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Gary Grubbs On paper, Double Take is a black buddy chase comedy based on a…

David Blaine

Showman David Blaine's original specialty was "street magic" -- close-up magic done for small groups on New York City streets -- then he became famous for bigger and more elaborate stunts. Blaine's…

Elizabeth Warren

Name at birth: Elizabeth HerringElizabeth Warren was a Harvard law professor and a leading consumer advocate before being elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in 2012. Elizabeth Warren was…

Michael Douglas

The son of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas has been a familiar leading man of both small and big screen since he played a young, hip cop in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco (…

Lou Reed Biography

Lou Reed (Lewis Allen Reed)musician, guitarist, singer, song writerBorn: 3/ 2/1942Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Known for his toneless voice and street-smart lyrics, Lou Reed never aspired to…