Metropolitan Museum Of Art Displays Epic Thomas Hart Benton Mural, 'America Today'

... works of its period, was painted by the artist in 1930 and 1931 for the boardroom of the modernist, Greenwich Village building of the New School for Social Research. It was commissioned by the school's director, Alvin Johnson, who made the ...

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Chef Jesse Schenker's Appetite for the Extremea

... is executive chef and owner of Gander and Recette, which he opened with his wife, Lindsay, in New York's Greenwich Village in 2010. Recette is a James Beard Best Restaurant semifinalist Nominee and received two star reviews from both the New York ...

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Connie Converse: The first singer-songwriter

Connie Converse was arguably the first modern singer-songwriter, writing and playing intimate songs on her acoustic guitar in the mid-1950s. But she remained virtually unknown and disappeared in 1974.

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Nightclub Brings European Party Vibe to MacDougal Street

Greenwich Village 's newest nighttime hotspot is hoping to bring a European mega-club experience to a single room on MacDougal Street . Mach 8 opened Sept.

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Five Swedish Scientists Have Been Hiding Bob Dylan Lyrics In Articles For 17 Years

... turned 51 this... Manny Roth, club owner and New York legend, has died at age 94. He was the owner of the Greenwich Village establishment CafA Wha?, heavily... In an ironic twist of fate, the handwritten lyrics to Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling ...

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The Mint Theater Is Bringing Back Long-Forgotten Plays

... office building on 43rd Street just west of Eighth Avenue), Bank has in just the past year conjured up a Greenwich Village boarding house ( Philip Goes Forth , first performed in 1931), a British solicitor's office ( London Wall , also from 1931 but ...

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Eighteen Musicians to Join Ensemble ACJW for Two-Year Fellowship Program

... , The Juilliard School, and other venues throughout New York City, including a three-concert series at Greenwich Village music venue SubCulture, with programs conceived and developed by the musicians. The group's concert season begins at Carnegie ...

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Scorsese-directed 'The 50 Year Argument' airs Monday on HBO

As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world's signature literary publications. "Should we do anything at all, rumble along in our usual way, or should we make an occasion out of it?" the 87-year-old Silvers recalled during a recent interview at the Review's offices in Greenwich Village, bookcases unavoidably nearby.

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Film: 'The 50 Year Argument' Scorsese documents magazine

As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world's signature literary publications. "Should we do anything at all, rumble along in our usual way, or should we make an occasion out of it?" the 87-year-old Silvers recalled during a recent interview at the Review's offices in Greenwich Village, bookcases unavoidably nearby.

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Get a slice of Chicago culture on pizza tour

... at http://ift.tt/YxTfIK . offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at scottspizzatours.com . Guidelines: Keep it civil and on topic; no ...

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Beyond words

As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world's signature literary publications. "Should we do anything at all, rumble along in our usual way, or should we make an occasion out of it?" the 87-year-old Silvers recalled during a recent interview at the Review's offices in Greenwich Village, bookcases unavoidably nearby.

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NYC's test for guides is not for wimps

In this Sept. 10 photo, the Tribute in Light rises behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Did you know the tribute is an art installation of 88 searchlights aiming skyward in two columns, in remembrance of the Sept.

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Get a slice of Chicago culture on pizza tour

... za-tour.php a Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://www.scottspizza tours.com a A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four ...

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Driving a cab in 1970s New York

The London-based US journalist Michael Goldfarb originally planned an entirely different career - as an actor. But while he waited for his big break in New York in the 1970s, he worked as a cab-driver.

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NYC Round Tin Candle

These NYC Round Tin Candles feature fragrances inspired by some of the Big Apple's most famous neighborhoods. Freshen things up with the cut grass and flowers of Central Park, or set the mood with Greenwich Village's smoky tobacco and spicy clove.

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Poet- translator Alastair Reid's final postscript

The Scottish poet, translator and essayist Alastair Reid, who wrote for The New Yorker for more than half a century, died last Sunday in Manhattan from a gastric bleed he suffered during treatment for pneumonia, according to family sources. Often described as a man with "itchy feet," Reid lived, often not for very long, in a variety of places - Switzerland, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, the Dominican Republic and England among them - before settling in Greenwich Village for the last decades of his life.

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Jewish Communist expats in East Germany recall heady 1950s

... and ideologically laden folk music. Grossman warmly reminisces about his time in left wing youth clubs in Greenwich Village where he'd go every second Saturday for square dancing and folk singing. There he was introduced to the music of Seeger, ...

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Director takes on '50th Year'

"Should we do anything at all, rumble along in our usual way, or should we make an occasion out of it?" the 87-year-old Silvers recalled during a recent interview at the Review's offices in Greenwich Village, bookcases unavoidably nearby. "We thought we should do something that was good for us and good for our readers.

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Artwashing: Modernism's Revenge

... of working class neighborhoods into homes first for gays and hippies (the Castro in San Francisco; Greenwich Village in New York), then the younger members of the middle class, and then those for whom Making is a sport or hobby (Brooklyn), has been ...

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Sam Worthington Expecting First Child With Girlfriend Lara Bingle

... in 2013 -- so much so that Worthington was arrested for assault after punching a photographer in NYC's Greenwich Village back in February over an altercation. The actor reportedly punched the photographer multiple times in the face after Lara ...

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Day at the Movies: Exclusive: See a Clip of 'Advanced Style,' In Theaters Now

"I'ma take your grandpa's style," Macklemore famously rapped to us last year. Well, he can have it, because we're about to cop the style of these fabulous women of a certain age in Advanced Style , debuting at Greenwich Village's Quad Theater today.

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American presidents have always treated New York City as their food captial

President Obama and wife Michelle set social media abuzz Wednesday night when they dined at uber-hip Estela - and now the restaurant is experience an entirely different form of shock and awe. "People have been calling in for reservations non-stop," Estela hostess Audrey Alunan Thursday morning, hours after POTUS and FLOTUS' meal of burrata, croquettes and endive salad.

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On the Market: How to Make Enemies and Friends of Garbagemen, Neighbors and Commuters

... look for a spacious two bedroom in this week's "The Hunt" column after deciding that their $6,000 a-month Greenwich Village rent was a little high (either inventing is more lucrative than we suspected or there is a large source of income from ...

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Kurt Loder Reviews The Equalizer and Jimi: All Is by My Side

... just two years in Hendrix's life: 1966, when he was lifted out of smalltime scuffling in the clubs of Greenwich Village and transported to England to dazzle a more appreciative audience; and 1967, when he began his rise to stardom and got picked (by ...

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Andre Benjamin plays pre-stardom Jimi Hendrix in biopic

The first thing to know about John Ridley's "Jimi: All Is By My Side" is that the writer-director was unable to secure rights to any of Jimi Hendrix's original songs or recordings: This turns out to provide both the film's biggest strengths and biggest shortcomings. Less a traditional biopic than a strategically limited portrait of a particular time, place and person, the film effectively brings pre-stardom Hendrix to life without ever tapping into the source of what made him such a magnetic performer, or elucidating just what drove him to create a lifetime's worth of music in the span of four years.

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The Musical Roots of Hendrix: Jimi: All by My Side Opens Tonight

When filmgoers watch JIMI: All is By My Side, which opens tonight, September 26 in 16 American cities, they will explore musical and narrative nuances rarely discussed in conversations about Jimi Hendrix's career. The film, which stars Andr Benjamin and Imogen Poots , was written by Oscar-winner John Ridley .

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Sam Worthington expecting baby with Lara Bingle

After months of speculation, the 'Avatar' star and his model girlfriend are set to welcome their first child, US Weekly can confirm. Rumours that the pair were expecting first surfaced when Lara, 27, appeared to cover her baby bump with a jacket when she stepped out in New York last week and was later pictured visiting a medical office while holding her tummy.

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BWW Interview: Joseph Marcell, the Globe's King Lear

King Lear is back! Mere weeks after a Shakespeare in the Park production concluded at the Delacorte, the Globe Theatre of London brings New York its fourth major Lear of 2014, with a Sept. 30-Oct. 12 run at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in Greenwich Village.

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New York University takes fight over a oeparksa to court

New York University and the city went before a panel of judges on Wednesday to appeal an earlier ruling that could prevent a portion of the school's $6 billion 2031 expansion plan from proceeding. The school and city sought to overturn a decision that protects three Greenwich Village green spaces - Mercer Playground, LaGuardia Park and Corner Gardens - from being demolished to make way for three new NYU buildings, DNAinfo reported.

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Morning 10: NY legal aid suit | Dow Jones decision | De Blasio in U.K.

... ] New York University turned yesterday to a Manhattan appeals court to try to move its $6 billion Greenwich Village expansion forward. The school wants the panel of judges to overturn a lower-court ruling in January in favor of local residents who ...

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Scorsese helms film about New York Review of Books

As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world's signature literary publications. "Should we do anything at all, rumble along in our usual way, or should we make an occasion out of it?" the 87-year-old Silvers recalled during a recent interview at the Review's offices in Greenwich Village, bookcases unavoidably nearby.

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The Challenges of Being a Licensed Tour Guide in New York City

I'm not just talking Grand Central and the Brooklyn Bridge. Do you know where Jackie O lived and how to reach the Bronx Zoo by subway? Do you know the difference between Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant? This is no Facebook quiz.

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'Jimi' traces rise of a star

LOS ANGELES, Sept 24, : The first thing to know about John Ridley's "Jimi: All Is By My Side" is that the writer-director was unable to secure rights to any of Jimi Hendrix's original songs or recordings: This turns out to provide both the film's biggest strengths and biggest shortcomings. Less a traditional biopic than a strategically limited portrait of a particular time, place and person, the film effectively brings pre-stardom Hendrix to life without ever tapping into the source of what made him such a magnetic performer, or elucidating just what drove him to create a lifetime's worth of music in the span of four years.

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La C mpora talks vultures with NY youth

Hours before President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner's speech at the UN General Assembly, members of the Kirchnerite youth group La Cmpora took the opportunity to push their own economic agenda in New York. Leaders from the group that had played a starring role during the president's visit to the Vatican last week went to the New School university in Greenwich Village, invited by academic leaders and students who wanted to learn more about the country.

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So you think you know a lot about NYC? Tour guide license test is no Facebook quiz

This Sept. 19, 2014 photo shows the Sightseeing Guide license issued by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs for AP Travel Editor Beth J. Harpaz.

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Anna Sui Would Ban Weird Elmos From Times Square

Name: Anna Sui Age: "I never say." Neighborhood: Greenwich Village Occupation: Fashion designer, fragrance launcher , Ford collaborator, on their latest Mustang Unleashed campaign.

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NYC tour guide license test: It's no Facebook quiz

I'm not just talking Grand Central and the Brooklyn Bridge. Do you know where Jackie O lived and how to reach the Bronx Zoo by subway? Do you know the difference between Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant? This is no Facebook quiz.

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So you think you know a lot about NYC? Tour guide license test is no Facebook quiz

I'm not just talking Grand Central and the Brooklyn Bridge. Do you know where Jackie O lived and how to reach the Bronx Zoo by subway? Do you know the difference between Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant? This is no Facebook quiz.

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So you think you know a lot about NYC? Tour guide license test is no Facebook quiz

I'm not just talking Grand Central and the Brooklyn Bridge. Do you know where Jackie O lived and how to reach the Bronx Zoo by subway? Do you know the difference between Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant? This is no Facebook quiz.

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NYC tour guide license test: It's no Facebook quiz

In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, the Tribute in Light rises behind the Brooklyn Bridge and buildings adjacent to the World Trade Center complex in New York.

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NYC tour guide license test: It's no Facebook quiz

In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, the Tribute in Light rises behind the Brooklyn Bridge and buildings adjacent to the World Trade Center complex in New York.

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NYC tour guide license test: It's no Facebook quiz

I'm not just talking Grand Central and the Brooklyn Bridge. Do you know where Jackie O lived and how to reach the Bronx Zoo by subway? Do you know the difference between Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant? FILE- In this Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, pedestrians and travelers stroll through the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal in New York.

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NYC tour guide license test: It's no Facebook quiz

In this Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, pedestrians and travelers stroll through the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal in New York. The landmark, one of the country's finest examples of Beaux Arts architecture and the most famous train station in America.

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As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world's signature literary publications. "Should we do anything at all, rumble along in our usual way, or should we make an occasion out of it?" the 87-year-old Silvers recalled during a recent interview at the Review's offices in Greenwich Village, bookcases unavoidably nearby.

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Scorsese's latest is documentary on magazine

This photo released by HBO shows Hugh Eakin, left, and Robert Silvers, in a scene from the documentary, "The Fifty Year Argument: An Inside Look at The New York Review of Books," which airs on HBO on Sept. 29, 2014.

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Scorsese's latest is documentary on magazine

As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world's signature literary publications. "Should we do anything at all, rumble along in our usual way, or should we make an occasion out of it?" the 87-year-old Silvers recalled during a recent interview at the Review's offices in Greenwich Village, bookcases unavoidably nearby.

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Scorsese's latest is documentary on magazine

29, 2014. . This photo released by HBO shows Robert Silvers, in a scene from the documentary, "The Fifty Year Argument: An Inside Look at The New York Review of Books," which airs on HBO on Sept.

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NYU 2031 hearings to begin today

... Committee, said in a press release. Berman added that his organization worried the construction in Greenwich Village would have limited economic benefits and a detrimental environmental impact, as opposed to the Financial District or Downtown ...

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Climate Marchers, Unite

Last weekend in New York, the People's Climate March came to town. Thousands descended upon the city to promote what some touted as "climate equality," a curious environmentalist variation of other secular-progressive sacred cows: income equality, gender equality, "marriage equality."

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Alastair Reid

... television producer and writer, who became his second wife. Together they shared a one-room apartment in Greenwich Village from whose windows Reid had a bird's-eye view of the human comedy. He could not have chosen a place, geographically and ...

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Bob Dylan Named As The 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year

... turned 51 this... Manny Roth, club owner and New York legend, has died at age 94. He was the owner of the Greenwich Village establishment Cafe Wha?, heavily... In an ironic twist of fate, the handwritten lyrics to Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone ...

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Skip E. Lowe, Talk Show Host and Inspiration for Martin Short's Jiminy Glick, Dies at 85

He hosted a low-budget public access cable TV show based in L.A. for decades and somehow attracted the stars Skip E. Lowe , who hosted a weekly talk show for public access cable television that aired in Los Angeles, New York and other major markets for decades, has died. He was 85. Lowe, a former child actor who served as an inspiration for Martin Short 's self-absorbed talk-show host character Jiminy Glick, died Monday in his Hollywood apartment, his publicist, Alan Eichler , announced.

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Bob Dylan Named 2015 Musicares Person Of The Year

... turned 51 this... Manny Roth, club owner and New York legend, has died at age 94. He was the owner of the Greenwich Village establishment Cafe Wha?, heavily... In an ironic twist of fate, the handwritten lyrics to Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone ...

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Terence Winter Touts a Homefield Advantage for 'Boardwalk Empire'

Terence Winter came of age in New York City during the bad old days of the 1970s and early 1980s. The "Boardwalk Empire" creator/showrunner remembers a time when areas of Manhattan such as the Upper East Side and Meatpacking District were a "no-man's land."

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Film review: 'Jimi: All Is By My Side'

The first thing to know about John Ridley's "Jimi: All Is By My Side" is that the writer-director was unable to secure rights to any of Jimi Hendrix's original songs or recordings: This turns out to provide both the film's biggest strengths and biggest shortcomings. Less a traditional biopic than a strategically limited portrait of a particular time, place and person, the film effectively brings pre-stardom Hendrix to life without ever tapping into the source of what made him such a magnetic performer, or elucidating just what drove him to create a lifetime's worth of music in the span of four years.

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Film Review: 'Jimi: All Is By My Side'

The first thing to know about John Ridley's "Jimi: All Is By My Side" is that the writer-director was unable to secure rights to any of Jimi Hendrix's original songs or recordings: This turns out to provide both the film's biggest strengths and biggest shortcomings. Less a traditional biopic than a strategically limited portrait of a particular time, place and person, the film effectively brings pre-stardom Hendrix to life without ever tapping into the source of what made him such a magnetic performer, or elucidating just what drove him to create a lifetime's worth of music in the span of four years.

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Whoopi Goldberg to have front 'view' of NYC Halloween Parade

... ghosts - making her a perfect choice for Grand Marshal of this year's ghoulish Halloween Parade through Greenwich Village in New York. The beloved parade of ghouls and goblins is a familiar sight to Goldberg, who grew up in Manhattan not far from ...

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Oktoberfest makes its way across the ocean to

... not Halloween in New York City until you've put on you craziest outfit and danced in the street at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade-- or at least watched, part amused and part terrified, from the sidelines. And don't forget to let your best ...

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Where to Watch Classic and Favorite Films in NYC This Week

For those who missed one of these classic movies the first time around, New York institutions are offering a second chance to see it on the big screen. Fans of vintage Disney musicals can introduce their kids to "Pete's Dragon" , starring an animated dragon opposite a live-action Mickey Rooney.

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Friends 20th anniversary: Where to visit as a superfan in New York

... intro. While the scenes inside the gang's apartments were filmed on-set in LA, it's possible to visit the Greenwich Village building on the corner of Grove and Bedford where the exterior shots of their building were taken. Make like Ugly Naked Guy, ...

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Pizza Tours of Big Cities Offer a Slice of Local Culture

... - Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO - A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour ...

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No need for a splash of paint! Jackson Pollock's tiny old New York...

... his haphazard paint-splashed canvases during his heyday of the 1940s What a sight: The skylights in the Greenwich Village apartment shone down from the arched ceilings to give the American artist (left) a perfect view of his creations While living ...

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Learn about Chicago one slice at a time

... Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour ...

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... Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour ...

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Terminally Ill, But Constantly Hospitalized

The choice: treat it aggressively to extend life, but probably not cure the disease, or manage the pain and focus on the quality of life. It was September 2012 and it was Paula Faber's third cancer in a decade, but she did not hesitate.

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Lana photog fling could end in a flash

... All appeared fine on Sept. 11, when Del Rey enjoyed a romantic lunch in New York with Carrozzini, whose Greenwich Village home she admitted to staying in and conducted her July Rolling Stone cover interview in. But, less than a week later, on Sept. ...

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Toto, I don't think we're not in Kongsby anymore.

Vivienne McKee, DenmarkA's best-known English entertainer, is this countryA's most beloved foreign import. Over the last 30 years, hundreds of thousands of Copenhageners have enjoyed her annual Crazy Christmas Cabaret show at Tivoli, marvelling at her unique, wry Anglo wit and charm.

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The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra releases the final compositions of Bob Brookmeyer

The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra was founded in 1966 by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis. Originally called the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, it gave regular Monday night concerts at the Village Vanguard on the edge of Greenwich Village in New York.

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28 Telltale Signs You've Officially Become A New Yorker

... along First Avenue in 1904, is still run by the family of the original owner. Established in 1961, this Greenwich Village spot is the oldest rock club in all of NYC and has welcomed performers from Bob Dylan to Bill Cosby. The refrigerator at this ...

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Photo Flash: Sleepy Hollow Begins Tonight at the Players Theatre

As long autumn shadows cast their spell across Greenwich Village, the days grow shorter and the nights grow restless and long, enticing the Headless Horseman to realize his lonely, faithful quest. Sleepy Hollow, an original musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell , which begins previews tonight, September 20th at The Players Theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, reveals a haunting deeper than the woods of the hollow.

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"A politician would attend the opening of an envelope"

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple , a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano.

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Cultural Landscapes of Greenwich Village with Francis Morrone - The West Village

Follow Francis Morrone, Time + Leisure's World's Greatest Tour Guide, as he shares the unheard history and wicked anecdotes of New York's past. This tour takes us to the far west, all the way to the Hudson River, to the most picturesque streets of the Village , where topics will include the development of Westbeth , the history of the White Horse Tavern, Jane Jacobs, St. Luke's Place, the Village Vanguard, and much more.

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Pizza tours offer real slice of life

... Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at scottspizzatours.com A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour tour for $80. ...

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Mario Batali and the Power of 'Delusional Optimism'

... His brand runs strong through television, the web, philanthropy and even food tourism (Mario Batali Greenwich Village Food Tour launched just this month). We caught up with Batali at Taste Talks Brooklyn where he discusses turning points in his ...

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Get a slice of Chicago culture on pizza tour

... New York City: - Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO - A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a ...

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Fitch Rates 2014-K39 Multifamily Mtge PT Ctfs and Freddie Mac SPC, Series K-039

... basis. The loan is secured by 250 Mercer Street, a 256-unit high rise co-op complex located in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan within the New York metropolitan statistical area (MSA). Loan Concentration: The top 10 loans constitute 31.8% ...

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Abstract Art Lovers Uncover Original Works

... artist who lived and worked in New York during the Jackson Pollock 1950's era. Barish had an apartment in Greenwich Village in New York at Bleecker and McDougal streets, just a few blocks from where Jackson Pollock lived. During those years, ...

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Stage Door: Embers

Samuel Beckett is having a good year in New York -- the acclaimed Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, another version, in Yiddish, currently at the Barrow Street Theatre in Greenwich Village and now Embers , his 1959 radio play, at BAM . Embers is a more inaccessible Beckett drama, yet even as it unnerves audiences, the work is strangely hypnotic.

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Sleepy Hollow the Musical Opens 10/4 at Players Theatre

As long autumn shadows cast their spell across Greenwich Village, the days grow shorter and the nights grow restless and long, enticing the Headless Horseman to realize his lonely, faithful quest. Sleepy Hollow, an original musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell , which begins previews on September 20th at The Players Theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, reveals a haunting deeper than the woods of the hollow.

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Celebrities with personalised Burberry capes

... and a striped top as she ran errands around New York. The Sex and the City star, who recently put up her Greenwich Village townhouse for sale , finished off the ensemble with some brown peep toe strappy heels and a brown leather bag with chain ...

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Return to the Hipster Alamo

... wallowing in intimate confines, not bellowing in cavernous concert halls. In 2013, Maron hand-picked a Greenwich Village basement showroom as the setting for his last comedy special, Thinky Pain , and recorded it before a full house of only several ...

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Get a slice of Chicago culture on pizza tour

... http://ift.tt/1ubh17t -- Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38.

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Photo Flash: First Look at Sleepy Hollow at the Players Theatre

As long autumn shadows cast their spell across Greenwich Village, the days grow shorter and the nights grow restless and long, enticing the Headless Horseman to realize his lonely, faithful quest. Sleepy Hollow, an original musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell , which begins previews on September 20th at The Players Theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, reveals a haunting deeper than the woods of the hollow.

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Chicago Pizza Tour Is A Must On Your Next Trip To The Windy City

... - Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO - A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour ...

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From a Broken Lease, a Dream NYC Home

Leasebreak, a new company, aims to be the bridge between Airbnb and traditional brokers. Could it revolutionize renting in NYC? You couldn't believe your luck when you found that quaint, affordable apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village-a deal in a city where real estate deals don't exist.

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Why New York truly is the greatest city on Earth

... puts it after we take our seats at Carbone, a terrific - and currently fashionable - restaurant in Greenwich Village which might be seen as passA in three weeks' time. Talking to strangers is perfectly normal in the Big Bagel. It's as if ...

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Julianne Moore only has eyes for husband after nearly 20 years together

... The couple, who started dating in 1996 and tied the knot in an intimate ceremony held in the couple's Greenwich Village backyard in 2003, walked arm-in-arm through New York, chatting and laughing as they went. Julianne kept it casual for the stroll ...

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From a Broken Lease, a Dream NYC HomeBy Lizzie Crocker

Leasebreak, a new company, aims to be the bridge between Airbnb and traditional brokers. Could it revolutionize renting in NYC? You couldn't believe your luck when you found that quaint, affordable apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village-a deal in a city where real estate deals don't exist.

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Pair Accused Of Offering Bogus Leases For Apartments, Bilking Victims Out Of $60,000

A man and woman were charged Tuesday with running a scam in which prospective apartment renters were allegedly conned out of some $60,000. Matthew Wada, 36, and Jennifer York, 27, were charged with a scheme to defraud and grand larceny in the alleged scheme, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

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Two plead not guilty in Manhattan apartment rental scam

Two people who allegedly bilked more than 20 apartment renters out of more than $60,000 pleaded not guilty Tuesday to fraud and grand larceny charges after being indicted in a "too good to be true" Manhattan rental scam. Jennifer York, 27, and Matthew Wada, 36, both of Manhattan, are accused of renting posh apartments for short-term stays in midtown, Chelsea, Greenwich Village and the East Village, then offering the flats for long-term lease via Craigslist and Bazarynka.com, a website serving the Polish community, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office.

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The Reel Recovery Film Festival Returns to New York City: September...

The Reel Recovery Film Festival Returns to New York City: September 26 - October 2 at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village Third Annual Festival Showcases Films That Look at the Human Side of Addiction and Recovery; Events Include a Day-Long Celebration of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and a Panel Discussion Featuring Susan Cheever, Bill Clegg, Joey Pantoliano, Steve Geng The Reel Recovery Film Festival, the only worldwide film festival that examines addiction while celebrating recovery, returns to New York City, September 26 - October 2, 2014. The seven-day festival takes place at the historic Quad Cinema and will feature over 33 films from more than five countries.

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Scammers accused of stealing $60K from apartment hunters

... said. The pair would first rent short-term apartments in sought-after neighborhoods such as Chelsea, Greenwich Village and the East Village through Web sites including Craigslist and NYHabitat.com, officials said. They'd then allegedly spend the ...

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Forget Power Lunches, Afternoon Tea Now Does the Job Far Better

Nearly 200 years ago Jane Austen wrote in Emma , "Tea passed pleasantly, and nobody seemed in a hurry to move." But tea no longer conjures fussy doilies and grandma's tea service.

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Duo duped 20 Manhattan apartment seekers out of $60,000

Matthew Wada remains jailed on $250,000 bail for allegedly scamming apartment hunters by showing units for rent that were already occupied. A pair of con artists bilked more than 20 apartment seekers out of $60,000 using Craigslist and other real estate websites by listing apartments for rent that were already occupied, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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Pizza tours gain popularity in New York, Chicago, more

... . -- Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at scottspizzatours.com . -- A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour tour ...

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Pizza tours offer a slice of culture in cities like Chicago, New York

... - Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO - A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour ...

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Get a slice of Chicago culture on pizza tour

... - Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO - A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour ...

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Get a slice of Chicago culture on pizza tour

... - Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO - A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour ...

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Get a slice of Chicago culture on pizza tour

... - Scott's Pizza Tours offers bus tours for $60 and walking tours in Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side for $38. Check availability at http://ift.tt/qIM0hO - A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour offers a four and a-half hour ...

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Emergency Health Care Gets a New Face in NYC

Perkins Eastman restored Albert Ledner's 1964 National Maritime Union headquarters in Manhattan's West Village, and inserted a stand-alone emergency department inside. When New York's St. Vincent's Hospital closed in 2010 after years of financial strife, Greenwich Village lost a beloved 150-year-old institution that had served the poor and working class and was "ground zero" when the AIDS epidemic erupted in the 1980s.

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New York City Public Library Branches Need $1.1 Billion in Repairs: Report

The City Has a "Broken Funding System" in Which Libraries Rely too Much on Discretionary Funds From City Council Members People are seen here using computers where staff created their own blinds at the Brooklyn Public Library Pacific branch on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn on Sept. 12. New York's public library branches need $1.1 billion in repairs to fix leaky roofs, broken air-conditioning systems and a host of other problems, according to a report released Monday by the Center for an Urban Future, a New York-based think tank.

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Alessandra Ambrosio sports a make-up free complexion and tousled...

... as possible. However, on Tuesday, the Victoria's Secret Angel was pictured with her long-term partner at Greenwich Village restaurant in New York City. The couple - who have two children together, daughter Anja, five, and two-year-

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Manhattan Basketball Training Fall Program Tryouts

... John Jay College. He has coached in numerous esteemed youth programs including the Junior Knicks, and the Greenwich Village Youth Council West 4th Street Summer Basketball League. He has been one of the lead player development coaches at every stop ...

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The Rise of the Black Kitchen

... in an eggplant shade so deep he calls it "bible black." He used the same hue for the cabinetry in the Greenwich Village townhouse he shares with his wife. "Dark materials create atmosphere," said Mr. Sammons. "They are a corrective antidote to the ...

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Joan Rivers wanted to offend Kiwis

American comedian Joan Rivers died 10 days ago, at the age of 81. I was surprised to hear it. Here after all was a woman who'd had so many surgical procedures to arrest the ravages of time, she seemed oddly invincible.

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Cooking up a Mario Batali tour

The Mario Batali Greenwich Village Food Tour, launching on Sept. 16, will offer more than tasty morsels at the famed chef's eateries.

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Archaeology of a Woman

... to some of her performance that seems to spring from her own beginnings as a theater actress in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s, where anything and everything was allowed. Just because Margaret is ill doesn't mean that she is just a case study, ...

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What $1,500 in Rent Gets You in 11 U.S. Cities

... paying exorbitantly for what can somehow legally be called an apartment. This rent-stabilized unit in Greenwich Village is actually a decent deal for the neighborhood, and units this cheap are usually far away from the center of action in Manhattan. ...

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The Musical Roots of Hendrix: Jimi: All by My Side to Open 9/26

When filmgoers watch JIMI: All is By My Side, which opens on September 26 in 16 American cities, they will explore musical and narrative nuances rarely discussed in conversations about Jimi Hendrix's career. The film, which stars Andr Benjamin and Imogen Poots , was written by Oscar-winner John Ridley .

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The Resilient City: New York After 9/11By John Avlon

What began as an apparent accident ended in unbelievable horror. Throughout the next year, the city changed but it's resilience never did.

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Felix Cavaliere, John Sebastian star at latest SongHall Master Session at NYU

... by every record company in New York City-and that's a lot!" said Sebastian. He then described the fertile Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early '60s that he was part of. "It was a multiplex of music [with] all these different factions: ...

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William Garfield Greaves Documentarian - " Filmmaker - " Teacher October 8, 1926 a " August 25, 2014

William Greaves, one of the most respected independents in the film and television world has passed away. Internationally recognized for his groundbreaking body of work the pioneering African-American filmmaker was 87. Greaves passed at his home in Manhattan on Monday afternoon with his family present.

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Take A Never-Before-Seen Tour Of Sarah Jessica Parker's NYC Townhouse

... we have just the spot for you. Aside from being in one of the Big Apple's swankiest neighborhoods, the Greenwich Village brownstone in question has much to offer its perspective buyers: for starters, the 6,800-square-foot home touts a landscaped ...

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Who will you vote for, Zephyr?

... attraction in the narrowest of constituencies: upscale white liberals in Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side. As for black and Hispanic New Yorkers, forget it. They gave Cuomo more than 70% of the vote in Harlem ...

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9/11: Lt. David Halderman Jr.

A post I did in September of 2006, originally entitled "September 11th, 2001 - "We Lost David". It is the ongoing fulfillment of a promise made in the last sentence of the post.

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Sarah Jessica Parker's stunning New York townhouse is on the market for $25m

Peek inside the actress' brownstone in Greenwich Village which can be snapped up in a New York minute... for a hefty price. Sex in the City's Carrie may have been content with a teeny tiny one-bed on Manhattan's Upper East Side but not Sarah Jessica Parker who has just placed her five floor New York townhouse on the market.

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The Story of Joan Rivers: 24 Famous Friends From Dick Cavett to...

... Show in 1965 A bunch of us as-yet-unknowns sat huddled breathlessly on a staircase in a tiny club in Greenwich Village where we'd all been appearing. A small black-and-white TV on an extension cord was tuned to The Tonight Show . Johnny introduced ...

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BBC America to Premiere a Poet in New York , 10/29

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

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Sarah Jessica Parker real estate listing with closet pic is misleading

... 4, 2014 in New York City. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have re-listed their pricey Greenwich Village townhouse, but did a professional stager set the stage for the gorgeous interior pics? On Monday, Today Home posted pictures of the ...

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On the Market: New York Foundling Finds $45 M. Buyer; Vogue Deems Bushwick Cool

Dan Doctoroff has found an outlet for his energies after agreeing to step aside to let Bloomberg resume leadership of his eponymous company come 2015, Crain's reports -the former deputy mayor will be devoting more time to the Culture Shed in Hudson Yards, on whose board he already sits. The New York Foundling home has found a buyer willing to pay $45 million for its Greenwich Village home, The New York Daily News reports ; the foster-care-focused non-profit paid a mere $3 million for the building in 2002.

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How to Compete with All-Cash Home Buyers If You Need Financing

... payment - typically 10 percent - paid when the contract is signed. Glazer recently helped a buyer win a Greenwich Village alcove studio in a co-op listed for $525,000 by having the client - who bid $604,000 - put down 12.5 percent at the closing. ...

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Sarah Jessica Parker lists townhouse for $22 million

The couple, who have son James Wilkie, 11, and five-year-old twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, have put their five story 6800-square-foot historic home in trendy Greenwich Village back on the market after failing to find a buyer when they first listed it for $25 million in 2012. The former 'Sex and the City' actress, 49, and the 'Deck the Halls' actor, 52, bought the lavish property for $18.995 million in 2011.

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Midcentury Expressionist Drama, Novelized

... and art echoes, at times, that of Willem de Kooning's, but she comes well after him from Rotterdam to Greenwich Village at the height of the Abstract Expressionist revolution of the 1950s. The reader follows the ebbs and flows of her art career as ...

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New York City's must-see specialty food stores

... mesquite smoked sea salt, plus different sized pink Himalayan salt blocks for cooking and serving. A Greenwich Village institution since 1940, this cheery shop takes curds and whey way seriously. Murray's has an outpost in Grand Central Station and ...

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Mayor appoints city's first tech czar

... wanted a real New Yorker." Ms. Tantoco's background in the private sector is diverse. A Flushing native, Greenwich Village resident and graduate of Bronx High School of Science, she holds four patents in artificial intelligence and workflow systems, ...

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Lida Moser captured life's reality through her lens

... (Judy and the Boys) (1961), began as a shoot for an aspiring model. Ms. Moser had posed her in front of a Greenwich Village garage when some neighbourhood children demanded to be in the picture, then began mimicking the model's poses. The model ...

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Sarah Jessica Parker lists townhouse for $22 million

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are selling their New York City townhouse for $22 million. The couple, who have son James Wilkie, 11, and five-year-old twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, have put their five story 6800-square-foot historic home in trendy Greenwich Village back on the market after failing to find a buyer when they first listed it for $25 million in 2012.

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Flashback: Van Halen Play a Tiny Basement Club In 2012

On January 2nd, 2012 journalists across New York received an invitation to a mysterious Van Halen event at New York's Cafe Wha?, a basement club in Greenwich Village that seats a mere 250 people. It was initially thought to be a press conference announcing their first album with David Lee Roth since 1984 , but soon enough word leaked out that Van Halen would actually be performing.

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SJP's Spectacular NYC Townhouse Is Back On The Market

SEPTEMBER 04: Sarah Jessica Parker attends the Lexus Design Disrupted: Gareth Pugh fashion show during MADE Fashion Spring 2015 at Pier 36 on September 4, 2014 in New York City. Actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have re-listed their Greenwich Village home after taking the property off the market earlier this year .

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Sarah Jessica Parker lists townhouse for $22 million

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have put their New York City townhouse back on the market for $22 million after failing to attract a buyer in 2012, when it was listed for $25 million. The couple, who have son James Wilkie, 11, and five-year-old twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, have put their five story 6800-square-foot historic home in trendy Greenwich Village back on the market after failing to find a buyer when they first listed it for $25 million in 2012.

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Natalie Douglas to Premiere New Show HELLO, DOLLY! at Birdland, 9/15

... continents (Montenegro, Greece, Corsica, Puerto Vallarta, London, Buenos Aires, Cancun & Germany.) In a Greenwich Village tradition, she also performs an annual New Year's Eve collaboration with Mark Hartman at the Duplex. Her solo recordings ...

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Creole meets Italian in the Big Apple

... fun. It is a celebration of life." The James Beard Foundation maintains the historic James Beard House in Greenwich Village as a "performance space" for visiting chefs. A cookbook author and teacher, James Beard was a champion of American cuisine ...

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Are you familiar with Jose?

... Segovia. When he was 17, Jose had to quit school after his father lost his job. Passing around the hat in Greenwich Village clubs, he gave whatever money he got to his struggling family. But Jose was clearly gifted, and lightning was about to ...

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Sarah Jessica Parker relists stunning Greenwich Village townhouse for $22M

She and hubbie Matthew Broderick have listed their Greenwich Village pad for a whopping $22 million, $3 million more than they paid for it just three years ago. The "Sex and the City" star bought the posh, 6,800-square-foot townhouse, at 20 E. 10th St., for $19 million in 2011 and renovated it from top to bottom but never lived there.

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Hearst Introduces “Freemium” Magazine: TrendingNY

... her neighborhood for a hyper-local look at health and beauty destinations: The debut issue features Greenwich Village with New York Fashion Week designer Misha Nonoo-Nolita, the Upper West Side and Cobble Hill will come later this month. culture ...

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Cherry Lane Begins 90th Season with Lisa Ramirez's to the Bone Tonight

The legendary Cherry Lane Theatre - which this year will celebrate its 90th anniversary as one of the nation's most revered institutions for its commitment to producing new works for the stage - will begin its 90th season with the world-premiere of Lisa Ramirez 's play TO THE BONE directed by Lisa Peters on, set to commence previews tonight, September 9 prior to an official opening night September 17 at Cherry Lane Theatre , it has been announced by Angelina Fiordellisi , the company's Founding Artistic Director.

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"Inside Llewyn Davis" at Durham Library Thursday

... wintry setting. The film follows a week in the life of a fictional young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician ...

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Hear One of Joan Rivers' Final Interviews

When Joan Rivers died last week at age 81 , the world lost the rare comedy legend who never slowed down over the course of a five-decade career. Just this past July, the caustic comic stopped by SiriusXM to discuss everything from her '60s comedy peers to one-liners written on scraps of paper in her purse.

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Climate film gets activists pumped for NYC march

When's the last time you saw people lining up on the street to watch a commercial? How about an hour-long commercial about climate change? That's what happened Sunday night for the New York premiere of Disruption . Billed as a documentary, the 52-minute film - now available for free online - is 350.org's extended promotion for the upcoming People's Climate March .

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The Reel Recovery Film Festival Returns to New York City: September 26...

The Reel Recovery Film Festival Returns to New York City: September 26 - October 2 at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village Third Annual Festival Showcases Films That Look at the Human Side of Addiction and Recovery; Events Include a Day-Long Celebration of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and a Panel Discussion Featuring Susan Cheever, Bill Clegg, Joey Pantoliano, Steve Geng The Reel Recovery Film Festival, the only worldwide film festival that examines addiction while celebrating recovery, returns to New York City, September 26 - October 2, 2014. The seven-day festival takes place at the historic Quad Cinema and will feature over 33 films from more than five countries.

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NYPL and U. Penn Partner for In-Person MOOC Support

... to talk about what they're learning in person. Beginning September 11, the Hudson Park Library in Greenwich Village will host a series of discussion gatherings every Thursday for 10 weeks, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The first session will be hosted by ...

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Michael Sheen to Star in Live Broadcast of Dylan Thomas' under Milk Wood at 92Y, 10/26

In 1953, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas premiered his masterpiece, Under Milk Wood, in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y . In celebration of Thomas's centenary, this beloved "play for voices" will come full circle on the afternoon of October 26 - when actor Michael Sheen directs and stars in a live broadcast reading of Under Milk Wood at 92Y.

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NYC: Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Re-List in NYC

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick , whose wheelings and dealings in the world of New York real estate are closely watched and whispered about to no end, have once again listed their Greenwich Village townhouse, this time for a reduced $22M. First offered for $25M two years ago, the five-bedroom abode was bought by the couple for $19M in 2011, after which they undertook some light renovations.

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My Old Lady Movie Review

... published plays, Horovitz is an institution. Anyone who passes an off-off-Broadway theater in New York's Greenwich Village notes that his play "Line" which is featured at the 13th Street theater since 1974, is the longest running play ever in ...

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Exit laughing as only Joan can

... hand, Joan loved. They were laughing at her jokes when nobody else was paying attention in the clubs in Greenwich Village in New York where she started out being obnoxious. She used to say that once she saw eight gay guys in the front row, she knew ...

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Hollywood stars flock to Joan Rivers' funeral

... Stone. Stone who was a fixture on the R&B and Disco scenes, died at age 93. Manny Roth, founder of the Greenwich Village club CafA Wha?, died July 25, 2014. Roth, gave early breaks to such future superstars as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce ...

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'Last Days In Vietnam' Has Robust Specialty Box Office Debut

... of holdovers," including the long-playing Richard Linklater hit Boyhood . Memphis grossed $4K at the Greenwich Village venue, selling out "most of its shows." Kino Lorber will next take Memphis to L.A., San Francisco, Seattle and Boston in the ...

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Joan Rivers - " She Stood Up When It Counted

... part of New York, the Borsht Belt, you could still get laughs by sticking a banana up your nose, but in Greenwich Village you wouldn't last unless your comedy came with an edge. Joan Rivers was part of that revolutionary spirit. Years later to ...

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O'Reilly: Joan Rivers, an antidote to our PC world

... rather than synaptic level. They speak to a truth we feel. Max Eastman was best known as a 20th Century Greenwich Village radical and publisher of "The Masses," who later became a fierce anti-Socialist. But humor was Eastman's other great study in ...

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Eats beat: Fried chicken, Cuban-Chinese fusion and spelt vodka

Fried-chicken lovers now have two more spots in New York where they can indulge. Former "Top Chef" contestant Chaz Brown has opened Seoul Chicken, an East Asian chicken wing bar on the Lower East Side at 71 Clinton St. Diners can pick between Korean- and Southern-fried with a choice of sauces, like Szechuan peppercorn and sea salt, habanero kimchi or gochujang Buffalo.

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Stephen Jardine: Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight

... shop in the streets of the Big Apple. It's where they are choosing to eat as well. On a street corner in Greenwich Village I watched two young Mexican cooks set up a cart on the edge of the pavement. By the time the first food was ready on the ...

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'I'm a performer': Read Chris Vognar's 2000 interview with Joan Rivers

... catastrophes personal and professional, from her days as a green performer doing stand-up comedy in small Greenwich Village clubs to her latest comeback in the superb new documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work . Her constant goal: Keep working. ...

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Andy Cohen Might Get Botox as a Tribute to Joan Rivers

... were Amber Valletta, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener, Adrian Grenier, and Coco Rocha. ver in Greenwich Village on this first day of Fashion Week, Barneys celebrated 20 years of NARS Cosmetics; the high-fashion store was the first to carry the ...

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The grande dame of the one-line insult

... but had failed to inform her of this. She began performing stand-up comedy in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village alongside other hopefuls such as Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. After seven gruelling years, during which she was repeatedly told she ...

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The Very Jewish Reasons Why Gays Loved Joan Rivers

... Rivers recently told the gay newspaper The Advocate . "I remember when I was working at the Duplex in Greenwich Village in New York at the beginning of my career and the only ones who would laugh at my jokes were the gay guys... Maybe it's just me ...

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Joan Rivers Credited Gays For Her Success

"I remember when I was working at the Duplex in Greenwich Village in New York at the beginning of my career and the only ones who would laugh at my jokes were the gay guys. I think if I had started out in straight clubs and bars I never would've gotten anywhere."

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'A very haunting guitar run down': How 'Dazed and...

Though a studio take on "Dazed and Confused" was never officially released by the Yardbirds, it's remained a staple of their live set since Jake Holmes opened for the Jimmy Page edition of the band in 1967. Jim McCarty says the song arrived at a perfect time for the Yardbirds, who where in search of new material after the departures of Jeff Beck and Paul Samwell-Smith.

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Why the gays loved Joan Rivers

... one," Rivers told The Advocate earlier this year, adding: "I remember when I was working at the Duplex in Greenwich Village in New York at the beginning of my career and the only ones who would laugh at my jokes were the gay guys. I think if I had ...

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Edwin Fancher: Change and Continuity in Greenwich Village

The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation works to preserve the architectural heritage and cultural history of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. In the mid-1990s GVSHP started an active series of oral history interviews -and, not surprisingly, in 2000 it sat down with Edwin Fancher , co-founder of the Village Voice , to document his role in the founding of the iconic publication.

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Joan Rivers

... to laughing soon." Rivers, the boundary-breaking stand-up artist whose acerbic monologues took her from Greenwich Village coffeehouses in the early 1960s to "The Tonight Show" in 1965, and on to her own late-night show, daytime talk, cable fashion ...

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Sharp-tongued comedian Joan Rivers dies at 81

... to laughing soon." Rivers, the boundary-breaking stand-up artist whose acerbic monologues took her from Greenwich Village coffeehouses in the early 1960s to "The Tonight Show" in 1965, and on to her own late-night show, daytime talk, cable fashion ...

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Joan Rivers

... satirical bite at figures from popular culture. Like them, too, she cut her teeth in the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village in Manhattan in the early Sixties; she was later to write a play about Bruce's mother, Sally Marr, herself a stand-up comic. ...

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Flash Friday: Barbra Streisand On Broadway

... top tier of the entertainment realm could not have had any humbler beginnings than it actually did - at a Greenwich Village gay bar, The Lion, in 1960. Yet, that is right where one of the most arresting and dynamic performers of the 20th and 21st ...

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Joan Rivers was a pointed, pioneering comedian

... up performing after college, she had a brief marriage, and then turned to comedy. She became a regular at Greenwich Village coffeehouses and was part of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe for a time. A 1965 booking on Carson made her career. She ...

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Joan Rivers: Entertainer whose huge comic talent was fuelled above all by anger

... performer to be an actress, footloose again she began performing stand-up comedy in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village alongside other hopefuls such as Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. After seven gruelling years, during which she was repeatedly ...

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Nothing taboo for Joan Rivers, queen of acid put-downs

... before concentrating on her own stand-up act. Rivers' peers in the comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village at the time included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of ...

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Joan Rivers was a pioneering comedian

... up performing after college, she had a brief marriage, and then turned to comedy. She became a regular at Greenwich Village coffeehouses and was part of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe for a time. A 1965 booking on Carson made her career. She ...

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Joan Rivers dead in New York at 81

... Catskills for $6 a night," she once told the Associated Press, and she also regularly worked the more hip Greenwich Village comedy scene in the '60s. 'Life is SO difficult -- everybody's been through something! But you laugh at it, it becomes ...

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Ralph Lee's 'the Dancing Fox' Starts This Weekend at St. John the Divine

... the college campus and featured giant puppets and masked creatures. That same year he organized the first Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, which he directed through 1985. For his work on the Parade, Lee received a 1975 Village Voice OBIE Award, a ...

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5 Things Joan Rivers wanted you to know about gay rights and suicide

... day one ," she told The Advocate in a recent interview. "I remember when I was working at the Duplex in Greenwich Village in New York at the beginning of my career and the only ones who would laugh at my jokes were the gay guys. "Even today," she ...

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Who Is This Dame? How Joan Rivers Killed in the Clubs

Joan Rivers is honored with a Star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 26, 1989 at Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Calif. Here was an attractive woman, in a little black dress and pearls-baring it all without ever popping a button When Joan Rivers emerged on the New York comedy scene in the 1960s, she was called a female Woody Allen.

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Appreciation: Joan Rivers made us laugh and wince, blasting barriers all the while

One can only imagine what the final words would have been from the 81-year-old comic legend if she knew she were dying. Instead, Rivers, who made a groundbreaking career out of brazenly mocking subjects most of us were afraid to talk about, died hooked up to machines Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, in a medically-induced coma, one week after suffering a cardiac arrest while undergoing a routine medical procedure on her vocal chords.

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Appreciation: Joan Rivers made us laugh and wince, blasting barriers all the while

One can only imagine what the final words would have been from the 81-year-old comic legend if she knew she were dying. Instead, Rivers, who made a groundbreaking career out brazenly mocking subjects most of us were afraid to talk about, died hooked up to machines Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, in a medically-induced coma, one week after suffering a cardiac arrest while undergoing a routine medical procedure on her vocal chords.

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Joan Rivers, driven diva of stand-up comedy and TV talk, dies at 81

... who died Thursday at 81, was nothing if not ambitious. The comedian who had started out telling jokes at Greenwich Village nightclubs in the 1960s reinvented herself as an acerbic red-carpet host for E! Entertainment, skewering celebrities and their ...

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Nothing taboo for Joan Rivers, queen of acid put-downs

... before concentrating on her own stand-up act. Rivers' peers in the comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village at the time included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of ...

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Joan Rivers' Plastic Fantastic

... Rivers who didn't conduct herself like the fifth and most outrageous Golden Girl, who came up in the same Greenwich Village club scene as Woody Allen and Richard Pryor, appeared in the film version of John Cheever's The Swimmer, and suffered enough ...

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Joan Rivers was venomous and hilarious writes Michael Thornton

One off: Joan sometimes danced madly on the very edge of good taste, but she also displayed an inspirational courage that made her unique The day I was informed by my New York publisher, halfway through a book tour of 25 U.S. cities, that I was to appear on a chat show with Joan Rivers, I freaked out and went into shock. I had appeared with stars, politicians, even royalty.

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Joan Rivers, driven diva of stand-up comedy and TV talk, dies at 81

... who died Thursday at 81, was nothing if not ambitious. The comedian who had started out telling jokes at Greenwich Village nightclubs in the 1960s reinvented herself as an acerbic red-carpet host for E! Entertainment, skewering celebrities and their ...

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House Call

... than me, and my sister is nine years older. She married in 1959 when I was 12 and my brother moved to Greenwich Village in the early '60s. With my dad always working and my brother and sister out of the house, my mother and I were the only ones ...

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Gay people loved Joan Rivers because she loved us back

... one," Rivers told The Advocate earlier this year, adding: "I remember when I was working at the Duplex in Greenwich Village in New York at the beginning of my career and the only ones who would laugh at my jokes were the gay guys. I think if I had ...

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Comedian Joan Rivers has died

... up performing after college, she had a brief marriage, and then turned to comedy. She became a regular at Greenwich Village coffeehouses and was part of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe for a time. A 1965 booking on Carson made her career. She ...

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... lasted six months and was annulled, propelling Ms. Rivers back toward pursuing performance at various Greenwich Village comedy clubs. Her big break in comedy came when she was asked to perform on NBC's "The Tonight Show" when Jack Paar was still ...

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Joan Rivers dead at 81

... before concentrating on her own stand-up act. Rivers' peers in the comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village at the time included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of ...

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Joan Rivers: Pointed, pioneering comedian

... up performing after college, she had a brief marriage, and then turned to comedy. She became a regular at Greenwich Village coffeehouses and was part of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe for a time. A 1965 booking on Carson made her career. She ...

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Joan Rivers: Pointed, pioneering comedian

... up performing after college, she had a brief marriage, and then turned to comedy. She became a regular at Greenwich Village coffeehouses and was part of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe for a time. A 1965 booking on Carson made her career. She ...

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Comedian Joan Rivers dies at age 81

... up performing after college, she had a brief marriage, and then turned to comedy. She became a regular at Greenwich Village coffeehouses and was part of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe for a time. A 1965 booking on Carson made her career. She ...

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Nothing taboo for Joan Rivers, queen of acid put-d...

... before concentrating on her own stand-up act. Rivers' peers in the comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village at the time included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of ...

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Joan Rivers Was One Of The Earliest And Loudest Gay Icons

... of LGBT equality. In one of her earliest roles, Rivers appeared opposite Barbra Streisand in a play in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. The two played a same-sex couple and kissed. "This was before she was singing, before anything. I knew she was ...

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Joan Rivers dies at 81

... who died Thursday at 81, was nothing if not ambitious. The comedian who had started out telling jokes at Greenwich Village nightclubs in the 1960s reinvented herself as an acerbic red-carpet host for E! Entertainment, skewering celebrities and their ...

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Comedian Joan Rivers dead at age 81

... before concentrating on her own stand-up act. Rivers' peers in the comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village at the time included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of ...

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Comedian Joan Rivers dead at age 81

... before concentrating on her own stand-up act. Rivers' peers in the comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village at the time included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of ...

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Joan Rivers, comedy pioneer, dies at 81

... lasted six months and was annulled, propelling Ms. Rivers back toward pursuing performance at various Greenwich Village comedy clubs. Her big break in comedy came when she was asked to perform on NBC's “The Tonight Show” when Jack Paar ...

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Comedian Joan Rivers dead at 81

Gray Line New York inducts WE TV stars Joan and Melissa Rivers into its prestigious Ride of Fame campaign. WENN LOS ANGELES - Raunchy, gravelly-voiced and self-deprecating comedian Joan Rivers, who rose from Greenwich Village standup to occasional host of "The Tonight Show" and star of TV's "Fashion Police," died Thursday after going into cardiac arrest during a medical procedure last week.

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... lasted six months and was annulled, propelling Ms. Rivers back toward pursuing performance at various Greenwich Village comedy clubs. Her big break in comedy came when she was asked to perform on NBC's "The Tonight Show" when Jack Paar was still ...

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Comedy legend Joan Rivers has died in New York at the age of 81 a week after suffering a heart attack

... at 1:17 p.m. surrounded by family and close friends," Melissa Rivers said. Joan Rivers, rose from Greenwich Village stand-up to occasional host of The Tonight Show and star of TV's Fashion Police. Melissa said: "My mother's greatest joy in life was ...

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Joan Rivers Dies At 81

... before she hit her stride - which ran for six weeks. She cut her teeth as a stand-up during the 1960s Greenwich Village scene, and was a 1961 Second City stage alumni in Chicago, where she was known for her shy and insecure characters, i.e. the ...

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Joan Rivers dies at 81; driven diva of stand-up comedy, TV talk

... who died Thursday at 81, was nothing if not ambitious. The comedian who had started out telling jokes at Greenwich Village nightclubs in the 1960s reinvented herself as an acerbic red-carpet host for E! Entertainment, skewering celebrities and their ...

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Tonight: Important Complete Streets Meetings in Manhattan and Queens

Tonight's a big night for livable streets events, with community board meetings on proposals for Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, and Long Island City. Plus, join Streetsblog at ARTCRANK if you're looking for some fun.

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Joan Rivers, comedy pioneer, dies

... lasted six months and was annulled, propelling Ms. Rivers back toward pursuing performance at various Greenwich Village comedy clubs. Her big break in comedy came when she was asked to perform on NBC's "The Tonight Show" when Jack Paar was still ...

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9/12: James Beard's Taste America tour come to Phoenix

Silvana Salcida Esparza: Barrio Cafe Paul McCabe: T. Cook's, Royal Palms Resort and Spa Charleen Badman: FnB Joshua Hebert: Posh Cullen Campbell: Crudo Gio Osso: Virtu Kevin Binkley: Binkley's Restaurant In 2007, the folks at the James Beard Foundation in New York had an idea. Why not host a national food festival to honor the prestigious culinary organization's 20th anniversary? The group traveled across America, stopping in culinary cities like Scottsdale and Phoenix and bringing together dream teams of top chefs for a fundraising dinner.

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Joan Rivers, Pointed, Pioneering Comedian, Dies At 81

... up performing after college, she had a brief marriage, and then turned to comedy. She became a regular at Greenwich Village coffeehouses and was part of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe for a time. A 1965 booking on Carson made her career. She ...

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Joan Rivers dead in New York at 81, says daughter

... Catskills for $6 a night," she once told the Associated Press, and she also regularly worked the more hip Greenwich Village comedy scene in the '60s. Appearances on television soon multiplied. Ed Sullivan once introduced her as "my daffy little ...

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Fringe performers take on varied venues

... would have happened in 1963 if someone from the Vogueing dance tradition had come down from Harlem to Greenwich Village to perform alongside the early postmodernists? Each size has a different way of answering that question. It's a different set of ...

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What is More Defamatory? A False Accusation of Homophobia or of Homosexuality?

In July 2014, Judge Barbara Jaffe of the New York Supreme Court dismissed the defamation claims in Kramer v.

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Richard Lewis looks back at his dark comic turns in 'Bundle of Nerves'

Comedian Richard Lewis has a two-disc DVD set coming out, "Bundle of Nerves," which includes "Magical Misery Tour" and "Diary of a Young Comic."

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What's So Funny About Growing Up in Jersey?

... than me, and my sister is nine years older. She married in 1959 when I was 12 and my brother moved to Greenwich Village in the early '60s. With my dad always working and my brother and sister out of the house, my mother and I were the only ones ...

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Behind the Scenes: Chef Brian Alberg and the James Beard House Kitchen Cam

Brian Alberg, executive chef of Stockbridge's Red Lion Inn, will host a "Summer's End in the Berkshires" solo dinner on September 5 at the James Beard House in New York City's Greenwich Village.

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