Park Slope School 282 Chess Team & Chess Campaign Featured in Sunday NY Times

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The #ParkSlope School psms282 Chess Team & Campaign (donate at http://bit.ly/282-Chess-Campaign) featured in Sunday NY Times. Discussion of fred-wilson support. More details:

The U900 Section National Champion PS/MS 282 Chess Team gets a great mention in this Sunday’s New York Times. The article discusses the chess team’s DonorsChoose.org campaign, its backing by Fred Wilson, and his additional support of IS318 chess.

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fred-wilson does an artist of the weekend on fredwilson.fm. The artists are almost invariably newer, younger artists, and always great. I give them a shot, love them, and then always fall right back to my old ways of listening pretty much exclusively to hard bop jazz from the 1950s and 1960s. This post is to acknowledge that fact.