Pete Seeger to be Celebrated with Five-Day NYC Music Festival

... events in the Bronx and Hudson Valley. Seeger, who was born in New York City and launched his career in Greenwich Village in the 1940s, died in January at age 94. Plans for the five-day Seeger Fest were announced Wednesday in Manhattan at a press ...

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Folk icon Tom Paxton comes to the Center for the Arts of Homer

... age." Paxton has been an integral part of the songwriting and folk music community since the early '60s Greenwich Village scene, and continues to be a primary influence on today's "New Folk" performers. The Chicago native came to New York via ...

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Walking Tours Manhattan Offering Attractive Walking Tours in New York

... for tourists, which include visiting different cities, sightseeing and eating appetizing local food. The Greenwich Village Food Tour allows foreign visitors to have full-fledged lunch from any one of the four popular restaurants in the area. The ...

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Unlimited coffee for $45 a month?

Each day, millions of customers flow through Starbucks stores in more than 60 countries.

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Larry Fink's "The Beats"

In 1958, at the age of eighteen, the photographer Larry Fink left his childhood home on Long Island and moved to a one-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village.

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Success of - The Tempest' was no illusion, but is it built for Broadway?

Aaron Posner and Teller discuss some finer points of co-directing "The Tempest" adapted from the play by William Shakespeare on Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

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Rare Songbird at Lafayette Bar in Easton

... and the deal was done. The two Glicks are a long-married couple who entered the jazz scene through the Greenwich Village portal in the late '60s. Michelle studied singing privately after graduating from the High School of Music and Art (now the ...

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Sunshine Tinged with Noir at Paris Photo LA

... the signs. The illusion ended upon encountering improbable geographies: the Upper East Side adjacent to Greenwich Village and Soho, next to a small block of Chicago. In his opening statement, Paris Photo Director Julien Frydman described the mission ...

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Suzanne Vega to perform at Civic Center

For fans of a certain age, the plaintive folk of Suzanne Vega conjures images of coffee houses, college courtyards and other Bohemian hot spots.

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Jackson, new coach must agree for Knicksa sake

... him and the Knicks , as he and Phil Jackson retreat to their separate corners to ponder their meeting in Greenwich Village Friday night. But, then, Kerr knows plenty about how devastating such dysfunction can be: his time as the Suns' GM was marked ...

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Warm-weather cocktails that are lower in alcohol

... we can do with the bar program, and there are plenty of options for people looking to avoid alcohol." At Greenwich Village bar Employees Only, a favorite of bartenders, the Mata Hari is named after a spy in World War I. The drink uses less than a ...

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Artichoke Basille's

... location, this slice shop serves up the legendary slices in what was once the heart of American Bohemia, Greenwich Village on MacDougal Street.

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Alice Denham to Read from Newest Book

Alice Denham is making a journey to Edgefield on May 10 - it is not her first, and we hope not her last! On her first visit to here, probably in the 50s as she was going off to college , her father brought her "home" to the town where his ancestors had played a role in founding Edgefield.

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The opening night of Glee's Funny Girl

It's finally here, or should we say wow that was fast. Of course, Glee did fast forward through time.

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Please Tax Us: Airbnb Offers City $21 Million

Airbnb recently offered to collect $21 million in taxes from its bed and breakfast hosts each year and pass it on to New York City, but local politicians are not too keen on the idea, despite looming budget deficits.

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Living the Airbnb High Life: High-end Home Shares Prove Surprisingly Popular

... full time." For the price of a room at the Ace or the W, well-heeled visitors can spend the weekend in a Greenwich Village townhouse, a garden apartment in Park Slope or a former doll factory in Williamsburg, among hundreds of other luxe offerings ...

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$30M penthouse tops relaunch of 61 Fifth Avenue

... Fredrik Eklund announced the building's relaunch on Instagram in an unusual marketing move. The four-unit Greenwich Village building reenters the market with a four-bedroom, four-bathroom triplex penthouse priced at $30 million. The penthouse ...

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$45 a Month for Unlimited Coffee

Each day, millions of customers flow through Starbucks stores in more than 60 countries.

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DM Playhouse's Play Reading Series to Continue with 4000 MILES, 5/5

The Des Moines Community Playhouse play reading series presents Amy Herzog 's "4000 Miles," 7:00 PM, Monday, May 5. The evening is free; beverages will be available for purchase.

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On the Market: Insanely Charming West Village Townhouse Wants $10.8M

Probably the most telling fact about this West Village townhouse at 83 Horatio Street is that there are seven fireplaces , and four of them are functional.

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All Wrong About Lower Manhattan: Rereading Sharon Zukin

... legally. One reason why such certification is not familiar to her might be that people residing in her Greenwich Village enclave, a different neighborhood, did not need it. She seems not to know that Tribeca, another neighborhood with "loft living," ...

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RADIO/PODCAST: Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man of Jazz This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

... Archive of Recorded Sound. A fast-talking, wisecracking Midwesterner, epitomized Chicago Jazz and his Greenwich Village nightclub was the heart of the New York jazz scene in the '40s. Listen to Hank O'Neal's full interview here. Listen to Maggie ...

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Gilbert Gottfried's dirty jokes, unmistakable delivery and twisted...

... significantly, he has remained every bit as audacious as the teenager from Brooklyn was that night in Greenwich Village more than 44 years ago. "I seem to have a career in spite of myself," said Gottfried, who formed his own niche in the comedy ...

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Bronxville Mayor Marvin: The Fallacy of New York's 2 Percent Tax Cap

... a Workmen's Compensation Law in 1914 as a direct result of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village where 146 immigrant women lost their lives and received no death benefits and survivors received no medical benefits or lost ...

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'Glee' recap, 'Opening Night'

Tonight's episode was all about Rachel. This was her culminating moment and it felt so important to be right there with her.

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Cause for Celebration: Wall Street Chieftan Scores Park Ave Co-op for $22 M.

Leafing through city records these days, one could be reasonably led to believe that Arts and Crafts has become an astonishingly lucrative profession.

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'Glee'-Cap: 'Opening Night'

Rachel is having a nightmare about opening night. Her nerves and anxiety get the best of her in a dream where she winds up naked, loses a tooth, gets chased around stage, and is heckled by Sue, Becky, Santana, Karofsky and Jacob Ben-Israel.

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Scot with the ear of one of life's great minds

... favourite countries, and many are the months he spent there over the years. His home, however, is in Greenwich Village where he and his wife have a bijou apartment, on the mantelpiece of which is an ornamental parrot, a gift from Garcia Marquez. The ...

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Grooving with cast of 'Hair'

Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Greenwich Village, 1967: A new generation struggles with questions about drug laws, race relations and U.S. involvement in war while attempting to navigate sex, love and friendships.

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Minetta Tavern Booked Solid? Where To Eat Instead

With each and every season, Greenwich Village welcomes a batch of new restaurants , but Minetta Tavern will likely always endure.

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Chloe Green is the epitome of casual glamour as she shops in New York with close friend

... It comes just 24 hours after the pair were also seen in similar outfits when they took to the streets of Greenwich Village on Sunday. But, for that occasion, she opted for a much more casual outfit. Instead of her classic mac, she wore a leather ...

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Ice cream shops serve up cool cones

As temperatures rise after a long, cold winter and signs of spring begin to appear throughout the city, it is a great time to check out some of the unique ice cream options New York City has to offer.

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Original New York City Food Tour Celebrates 15 Years in Business with ...

... offering original 1999 prices ($20 per ticket) on Tuesday, April 29th (the anniversary) for the Original Greenwich Village Tour and running special promotions, including tastings of the signature Foods of NY cocktail and raffle prizes, all week. The ...

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The Record: Back to fair

IF YOU were a child when the era of "Mad Men" was a way of life and not a television show, 50 years ago today was a very big deal.

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The Origin of Hedwig and the Angry Inch! Follow Her Journey From Underground Rock Club to Broadway

John Cameron Mitchell in 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' & Nail Patrick Harris in 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' on Broadway.

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Restaurants take extreme measures to cope with lime crisis

Justin Noel, owner of Greenwich Village cocktail bar Sweetwater Social, was packing up supplies from a liquor industry event the other day, when he caught sight of an unattended box filled with valuables.

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Fifth Avenue Easter Parade is a New York happening

... was all about the hat, it is increasingly about the ensemble, or the total costume. Like the famous Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, New Yorkers use the opportunity to dress up to show off their creativity or send a message or just show off. The ...

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Opening Bell: 04.21.14

Barclays to Exit Most Commodities Trading in Bid to Bolster Profit The U.K. bank will pull back from trading in base metals, energy and agricultural products and fold its precious metals business into its currency trading unit, people familiar with the plans said Monday.

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Chloe Green wraps up in urban ensemble for day out in chilly New York with a close friend

A doting mom until the very end: Peaches' coffin - decorated with a heartbreaking drawing of her with her young family - arrives at church as mourners gather to pay their respects Runaway teenager hides in wheel well of jetliner and survives flying more than five hours by HIBERNATING from California to Hawaii after fleeing parents 'Unforgivable, ... (more)

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'Mad Men' Recap: Season 7, Episode 2, 'A Day's Work'

There's a lot of deception and double-talk this episode as we watch everyone at work or school.

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Eats Beat: The new food-inspired movie 'Tasting Menu'

Also new in New York: East & West restaurant at Yotel hotel, cooking classes for kids and the Taste of the Nation fund-raiser "Tasting Menu" is now playing at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village.

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Jefferson Market Library in spring

In Greenwich Village, at Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street, is one of those buildings that makes me feel like I've stepped back in time whenever I walk past it.

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NYU gave president’s aspiring actor son apartment on campus

New York University's controversial penchant under President John Sexton for doling out real-estate perks to top professors and executives also extended to his son.

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Medfield Chef Featured at New York's James Beard House

A chef from Medfield was recently welcomed to prepare a special meal at the James Beard House in New York.

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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jlco Hosts: Christian McBride and Kurt Rosenwinkel

LCO premieres new arrangements of McBride and Rosenwinkel's works Rose Theater, May 23 & 24, 8pm New York, NY - On May 23-24, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents its second JLCO Hosts concerts featuring a collaborating between the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with and two of contemporary jazz's finest artists.

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From the desk of Jared Carter: Braking for Poetry

Jared Carter has received the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Poets' Prize, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Army couple in documentary told from caregiver's point of view

The timing couldn't be better: In a month dedicated to military and veteran caregivers, a documentary about an Army couple's struggles after devastating combat injuries will premier at one of the world's top film festivals.

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Morning 10: City minimum wage | Trading subpoenas | Sandy relief probe

... President John Sexton provided his son, an aspiring actor not affiliated with the school, with a set of Greenwich Village apartments normally reserved for law faculty. Mr. Sexton had the one-bedroom apartments combined into a duplex despite what NYU ...

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Holey Donuts offering made-to-order confections with Three Grams of fat

... GRAMS of fat. FEMAIL puts them to the test... Holey Donuts , which is set to open in New York City's Greenwich Village on May 4th, will offer made-to-order treats with just a fraction of the fat and cholesterol of traditional donuts. Frank Dilullo, ...

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The Return of the Jazz Age

... an old crank with irritable bowel syndrome could go home grousing. This is the one about the struggling Greenwich Village playwright (a wonderful Zach Braff doing a solid riff on Woody) who sells out fast when his first Broadway show is financed by ...

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Google Reportedly Looking for Even More Office Space in New York

... its presence in New York. Facebook recently relocated its New York staff to a much larger facility in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. Each package gets larger with a mouse-over, and a click on it returns search results pertinent to a ...

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Mr. Coble Goes to Broadway: Friends and fans offer advice to Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble

We here at The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com are more excited than the rabble in the bleacher seats at Progressive Field on opening day that your play "The Velocity of Autumn" is about to debut on Broadway.

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How to Banish Sugar From Your Diet and Survive in NYC

For Jessi Green, 28, the difficulty of giving up sugar came to a head when she started crying in a Thai restaurant.

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A Brooklyn, N.Y., Rock Hall tale: Visit a city of 8 million and run into ... Clevelanders

The tiny stage at the Way Station in Brooklyn, N.Y. is loaded with character -- and a backline and drum set, which is a good thing considering nobody wants to haul around a bunch of gear on a subway.

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Folk music's never-ending moment in the sun

... new and it never gets old, it's a folk song." Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers' film about the Greenwich Village folk music scene in 1961 - which was released on DVD last month - has a scene depicting our earnest hero driving down that ...

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Treasure Hunt for Bitcoin-Alternative NewYorkCoin Starts Today

The NewYorkCoin treasure hunt is on! 100 Million NewYorkCoin [NYC] are being offered for free to 100 lucky New Yorker's in April.

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'Saturday Night Live' Skewers 'Undercover Sharpton'

... to help secure court authorization to bug two Genovese family social clubs, including Gigante's Greenwich Village headquarters, three autos used by crime family leaders, and more than a dozen phone lines. But the real-life Sharpton denies any such ...

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Zengo indoor cycling gears up for high-speed expansion

I am drenched in sweat, pedaling furiously on a stationary bike, one of 45 or so people crammed into a dark, mirror-lined downstairs club, full of women half my age and pulsating with a thundering bass.

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Patrick Mulvaney cooks at New York's prestigious James Beard House

... Portland, Ore., he had originally set his career sights on becoming an actor. Beard converted part of his Greenwich Village town home into his James Beard Cooking School. Following Beard's death, and through the championing of Julia Child and ...

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Nearly 40 Manhattan Public Schools Protest State English Exams

... what students had learned, among other issues. Elementary schools, including P.S. 11 in Chelsea, P.S. 3 Greenwich Village and the East Side's P.S. 59 , also demanded that the tests be released to the public once they were graded, something the New ...

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Felice will be no stranger to Cluny: North East roots music scene

An eclectic mix of musicians make up this week's North East roots music column, Alan Nichol has the latest Simone Felice has already managed to experience most of life's various adventures and he has yet to reach middle age.

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New York Indian Film Festival announces 2014 lineup

... at the NYIFF launch event Tuesday night at the new SoHo Tiffin Junction restaurant on East 8th Street in Greenwich Village near the New York University campus, where NYIFF festival director Aseem Chhabra also singled out the Marathi fest entry ...

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A New Digital Currency Exclusively Launched for New Yorkers

New York Coin Foundation has recently launched its new digital currency, the NewYorkCoin on March 6th 2014.

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'Bullets Over Broadway': Allen and Stroman Hit the Bull's-Eye

... David Shayne is drinking Chianti with his live-in girlfriend Ellen and some friends on the roof of their Greenwich Village walk-up. David is explaining how as a true artist his work is sacrosanct, that he would never sell out, never change even one ...

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Sharpton secretly worked as FBI mob informant: report

A report by the Smoking Gun reveals the Rev. Al Sharpton's secret work as an FBI informant, collecting information on some of New York City's top mobsters.

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Roland Emmerich Attempts Being a Serious Director Again

"War Horse" star Jeremy Irvine has landed the lead role in Roland Emmerich's intimate indie "Stonewall," which chronicles the gay rights movement, an individual familiar with the project told TheWrap.

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Meet The Merchant: Mxyplyzyk, award-winning gift shop in Jersey City

... and home furnishing shop at 308 Grove St. The retail store's first location opened across the river in Greenwich Village in 1992, where it had a steady following in the Manhattan retail market until it closed in 2012. Bill Cleary, who owns Mxyplyxyk ...

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When Downtown Was Cool

Greenwich Village holds a mythical place in the history of NYC. Three legends in their own right remember the neighborhood that helped shape them into the artists they have become.

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Spotlight 2014: Forbes moving to Jersey City

... media giant, known best for its regular lists of the richest people in the world, will move here from its Greenwich Village home by the end of this year, joining a number of other high-profile businesses who have moved across the Hudson River. Goya ...

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Independence Day Director To Helm Gay Rights Drama Stonewall

... public demonstrations and clashes between police and members of the gay community over several days in Greenwich Village NY after a police raid of The Stonewall Inn, a local gay bar, in June of 1969. The events are commonly considered to be the ...

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New Trend Gives Strangers a Taste of Faraway Lands

... served one of them, rigatoni alla carbonara, to six guests, most of them complete strangers, in his snug Greenwich Village apartment. "I love the instant gratification of cooking, as opposed to writing, when the story you write comes out a year from ...

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When Downtown Was Cool By The Daily Beast

Greenwich Village holds a mythical place in the history of NYC. Three legends in their own right remember the neighborhood that helped shape them into the artists they have become.

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ID4 Director To Helm Gay Rights Drama Stonewall

... public demonstrations and clashes between police and members of the gay community over several days in Greenwich Village NY after a police raid of The Stonewall Inn, a local gay bar, in June of 1969. The events are commonly considered to be the ...

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Redwood High School grad makes Cellar Door debut

... etc. I eagerly look forward to what is in store. Spaite opens for Walker, who came up in the Greenwich Village folk scenes of the 1960s. He recorded two albums for the Vanguard label in the late '60s in a style best described as American folk-raga. ...

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11 intriguing facts about Scarlett Johansson

It's getting pretty hard to avoid Scarlett Johansson, but why would you want to? We've learned that the star of blockbusters , weird art-house sci-fi and magazine covers hates the ScarJo nickname , used to date fun.

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Asolo Rep's 4000 Miles

... Miles is both touching and funny in its overall effect. The play begins with the abrupt 3 a.m. arrival in Greenwich Village of Leo, who's been cycling cross-country from Seattle to New York with no apparent aim in mind, washing up, grubby and ...

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The Fantasticks' to be presented April 27 at WCU

"The Fantasticks," the world's longest-running musical, will bring a steampunk-styled allegory about deceit, disillusionment and devotion to Western Carolina University's John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Narrated by bandit El Gallo, the romantic musical follows the lives of young Matt and Luisa as their ... (more)

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A short history of New York City's various Titanic memorials

From a 1912 handbill, drumming up support for a proper memorial. In our podcast on the South Street Seaport , we forgot to mention a very interesting little landmark to the area -- the Titanic Memorial , a 60-foot white lighthouse that sits in the little plaza at Fulton and Water Streets.

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Report shows Sharpton was FBI mafia informant

... where he hung out, the report said. Gigante, who known for faking mental illness by shuffling through his Greenwich Village neighborhood in a bathrobe and slippers, was convicted in 1997 of racketeering and murder conspiracy. He died in prison in ...

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Reverend Al Sharpton tagged as FBI informant against NYC crime families

... enabled them to secure court authorization to bug two Genovese family social clubs, including Gigante's Greenwich Village headquarters, the website said. The reverend admitted his role to the New York Times, but added his activities had been ...

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Al Sharpton says report of FBI cooperation not new

... Gigante hung out, the report said. Gigante, who known for faking mental illness by shuffling through his Greenwich Village neighborhood in bathrobe and slippers, was convicted in 1997 of racketeering and murder conspiracy. He died in prison at 77 ...

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Al Sharpton says report of FBI cooperation not new

... Gigante hung out, the report said. Gigante, who known for faking mental illness by shuffling through his Greenwich Village neighborhood in bathrobe and slippers, was convicted in 1997 of racketeering and murder conspiracy. He died in prison at 77 in ...

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Al Sharpton says report of FBI cooperation not new

... Gigante hung out, the report said. Gigante, who known for faking mental illness by shuffling through his Greenwich Village neighborhood in bathrobe and slippers, was convicted in 1997 of racketeering and murder conspiracy. He died in prison at 77 in ...

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Al Sharpton says report of FBI cooperation not new

... Gigante hung out, the report said. Gigante, who known for faking mental illness by shuffling through his Greenwich Village neighborhood in bathrobe and slippers, was convicted in 1997 of racketeering and murder conspiracy. He died in prison at 77 in ...

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The Rev. Al Sharpton denies snitch allegations: I was a victim

... to help secure court authorization to bug two Genovese family social clubs, "including Gigante's Greenwich Village headquarters, three autos used by crime family leaders and more than a dozen phone lines," the report said. Mr. Sharpton acknowledged ...

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Report: Al Sharpton Once A Paid FBI Informant

... to help secure court authorization to bug two Genovese family social clubs, including Gigante's Greenwich Village headquarters, three autos used by crime family leaders and more than a dozen phone lines," the website claimed. The taps were approved ...

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New York Stage And Film, Vassar Set 30th Anniversary Season:...

... and ticket sale information will be announced at a later date. 1967. A 38-year-old writer from bohemian Greenwich Village commutes to Levittown, Long Island to teach an adult-education Creative Writing class. He finds anything but the cookie-cutter ...

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An Artist's Census

... lives in its past. Even broadway is crappy! NYC is hollow now. Thanks Mike. I am a musician who lived in Greenwich Village and the East Village back in the stone age when they were bohemian. Now I work there as a street musician which I could never ...

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Valerie Simpson stars at SongHall's Master Session at NYU

It was only fitting that Valerie Simpson 's April 2 Songwriters Hall of Fame Master Sessions at NYU event was held at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village.

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Heroin across America: We're all paying

... file photo, New York City police carry the body of punk rock singer Sid Vicious from an apartment in the Greenwich Village area of New York. Authorities said that Sid Vicious, whose real name was John Simon Ritchie, apparently died of an overdose of ...

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'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US

... file photo, New York City police carry the body of punk rock singer Sid Vicious from an apartment in the Greenwich Village area of New York. Authorities said that Sid Vicious, whose real name was John Simon Ritchie, apparently died of an overdose of ...

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New York bus crash and scaffolding accident leave one dead, four injured

April 05, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A 49 year-old bus driver was tragically killed in an accident in Greenwich Village, New York.

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Salt Lake Acting Company: '4000 Miles' takes trip across generational divides

... in her small world. She's a old-school lefty who finds Leo, her new-school lefty grandson, on her Greenwich Village doorstep in the middle of the night. He's at the tail-end of a 4,000-mile cross-country bike trip. Before he reaches the ...

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The 'Bartender Of The Year' Makes One Heck Of A Cocktail

... Hotel in London , also thought the drink had a nice sweetness. A hip pair of friends from Harlem and Greenwich Village said it was too sugary, although they thought most New Yorkers want sweet drinks. The two men preferred a smoky drink called Back ...

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How Can Cities Protect Themselves against Gas Explosions?

Aerial view of New York City's East Harlem apartment gas explosion, March 12, 2014.

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Collecting Music in an Analog Age

In the early 1980s, I had a day job crunching numbers for a financial company in midtown Manhattan.

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The Man Who Can Make a Cheetah Jump

When inventor Dan Kainen opens the first page of his novelty book "Safari" for me at the bar of Greenwich Village's Knickerbocker Grill, the cheetah on the first page springs to life.

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Hal Holbrook Brings Mark Twain Tonight! to National Theatre, Now thru 4/5

... Brighter Day. By day, he worked on the soap, and in the evening, he perfected his Twain character in a Greenwich Village night club. In seven months at the club he developed his original two hours of material. Finally, Ed Sullivan saw him and gave ...

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The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis draws on Bob Dylan's early years for inspiration

The Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis was snubbed at the Oscars but, much like its protagonist, this melancholy period piece deserves a wider audience, writes James Mottram THE SEED OF A Joel and Ethan Coen film can be planted in the strangest of ways.

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Weaving lyrical magic

... - could connect with the crowd. Vega, who started her career by performing in small bars and clubs in Greenwich Village in New York, is most effective in this kind of environment, where she can command attention while reaching out and touching ...

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Internally Focused Tasks of A Chief Innovation Officer

The previous blog post detailed how corporate innovation leaders can source external ideas to broaden internal thinking.

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Designer Kors buys land on Longboat Key

... The purchase made in November was made through a limited liability company traced back to Kors' Greenwich Village address in New York, the Bradenton Herald said. The 2.25-acre property faces the water on Gulf of Mexico Drive. Kors has a net ...

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Fashion designer Michael Kors is Longboat Key mystery buyer

... lot for $6 million in November. A limited liability company that traces back to KorsþÄô Greenwich Village address in New York he has on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission matches that of the buyer of two lots at 6281 and ...

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oeber-agent Ari Emanuel apartment hunts in NYC

... and profits in Real Estate" .a <.a <. that Rosie O'Donnell changed brokers and dropped the price of her Greenwich Village penthouse. She bought it for $8.09 million, above the $7.95 million ask, in 2012, then listed it for $10.95 million with ...

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Lara avoids pap drama

They might be calling for her to be arrested in New York but *Lara Bingle *was all smiles as she lapped up the sunshine in her native Sydney yesterday morning.

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In the kitchen with 'Sous Chef' author Michael Gibney

Michael Gibney, chef and author of "Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line," at work at Omar's bistro in the Village.

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Fashion designer Michael Kors is Longboat Key mystery buyer

... Longboat Key vacant lot for $6 million in November. A limited liability company that traces back to Kors' Greenwich Village address in New York he has on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission matches that of the buyer of two lots at 6281 ...

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TOWN Residential's Q1 Aggregatea Sales Report Shows Increase in Manhattan Real Estate Prices

Quarterly Aggregate Reporta Q1 which is now live on TOWN's website , and included here.

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On the Market: Sup at Tavern on the Green, Sip at Urban Outfitters, Sleep in an Abandoned Lighthouse

... which estate taxes kick in has surpassed just over $2 million, according to Crain's . The brokers for the Greenwich Village condo conversion at 215 Sullivan Street are humble bragging to The Real Deal that by the time the model unit is finished ...

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Morning Briefing -- Wednesday

... are hosted by Mark Skinner Library. On March 25, 1911 a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village killed 146 young workers, most of them young immigrant Jewish and Italian women. With exits locked, women leapt to their deaths ...

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Abe Ovadia - Three by Three

Nearly a year ago, I wrote a review about a stellar performance by Abe Ovadia - a young up and coming guitarist who creates his own rules and is an imitation of no one.

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Samuel R. Delany

Though most often compared to Joyce , SAMUEL R. DELANY is also something of a latter day Hawthorne - dealing, as he does, with characters trapped in impossible worlds of fraught, impenetrable ambiguity.

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