The conventional art fair — for which collectors, dealers and other art world professionals jet into a city for several days of looking, buying, going to parties and networking — is about to face a challenge.
The loss of the Jets professional football team to New Jersey has been a sharp blow.
After playing a first half so bad that it was barely professional football, the Jets played so well in the second half that it raised the question: Where has the second-half incarnation of the Jets been?
Before the game, a horde of cheerleaders from area schools, along with a few members of the Jets' professional squad, occupied the width of the outfield grass for a long and chaotic dance routine.
New Yorkers are far more attached to the professional teams, the Jets and the Giants, but interest in college football does emerge whenever Notre Dame comes to town -- or even to New Jersey.
The church's pastor said Tebow told him he bowed out because "he needed to avoid controversy right now for personal and professional reasons". New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow has decided to cancel his appearance at a Dallas church that is led by a pastor, Robert Jeffress, who has been criticized for his remarks about gays and other faiths.
But after those Jets celebrated the ultimate accomplishment in professional football, the current Jets left the field Sunday celebrating another ugly victory, against a depleted Chiefs team, the youngest in football.
While the public expressed concern (not outrage) over surging gas prices that year, Raymond, according to ABC-TV, also raked in a "$1 million consulting deal, two years of home security, personal security, a car and driver, and use of a corporate jet for professional purposes".
Alternatively, professional experience flying commercial jets can be traded off for science.
Talk story about a visit to the New York City Correctional Institution for Men on Rikers Island in the East R. to watch a practice scrimmage of the professional football champions, the Jets.
