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... of Inside Llewyn Davis (Nonesuch) Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene - and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general - will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert ...

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Enigmas of the Visible: Paintings by Anne Tabachnick

... and political ideals, she was drawn to academic study and to art making, and fell in with the burgeoning Greenwich Village bohemian scene of the 1940s. As a teenager, she modeled for Nell Blaine's students, who included Jane Freilicher and Larry ...

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Norman Mailer

Beatrice Silverman Adele Morales Jeanne Campbell Beverly Bentley Carol Stevens Norris Church Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate. His first novel was The Naked and the Dead published in 1948.

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Locals learn all about Broadway Rose history and community activities ...

... Ryan suggested Tigard as the location. The theater company was incorporated in November 1991 in Ryan's Greenwich Village apartment, with Maroney's mother drawing up the paperwork because she had the most legal experience of the group having been ...

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'The Babadook' Is No By-the-Book Horror Movie

Still from 'The Badabook' with Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman "Present fears are less than horrible imaginings," Macbeth famously mused. Centuries later, this tenet is borne out in countless horror movies, where campy monsters emerge from the veil of mystery to anticlimactic effect.

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Old Classic, New Classic: From Hop Kee to Red Farm, Chinese Food Grows Up

... In those early days, eating Chinese was an adventure - a challenge to the senses and, for some (like the Greenwich Village bohemians who were the earliest fans of Chinese food in New York), to conventional mores. What we know about diners in the ...

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New Songs and Old Masters: Song One Premieres and Christie's Mix It Up

Martha Stewart, Richard Perry and Janet Gordon Lennox at the Charles March 'Wood Land' Opening hosted by Adam Lindemann. There's a gray area following the holidays, a period of social thawing when party pickings can be thin.

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The 24 Iconic Dishes of New York City

... important to a community when its closing causes the sort of uproar that broke out over the loss of the Greenwich Village outpost. Luckily, the Upper West Side Grays is still going strong. The recession special is the order- two snappy, salty dogs, ...

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Man Tells NYPD He's Carrying a Lock in a Sock Because 'This Is New York'

... burglaries across Lower Manhattan was nabbed after he broke into a Financial District Pret a Manger and a Greenwich Village pizzeria while police were watching, according to a criminal complaint. Police said Emilio Maldonado, 63, was finally caught ...

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Melissa Rivers sues medical clinic over Joan Rivers' death

... is shocking and frankly, almost incomprehensible." "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 this is a cool ...

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Letters: How to handle a New York blizzard

... Courtyard Playhouse on Grove Street. After a late dinner with a friend, I walked along Seventh Avenue in Greenwich Village at almost 2 in the morning. The streets were empty but covered in a heavy snow. The flakes, if somehow gentle, rapidly ...

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10 Old-Fashioned French Bistros to Try in New York City

For much of the time since Swiss brothers John and Peter Delmonico opened their confectionary on William Street in 1828, expanding it two years later into an ambitious restaurant, French has been the cuisine of fine dining in New York City. Yes, there have been exceptions to the rule that French equals high-end: in the 1890s an immigrant Gallic neighborhood flourished around Broadway and 25th Street, spawning a handful of working-class eateries such as J.B.G.'s , where a six-course set meal known as a table d'hA te was available every night for the bargain price of 60 cents.

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Sassy Femmes Still Rock the New Mexico Art World

... pederasts, prostitutes, and peasants. Great material." Later, as she presided over her legendary Greenwich Village salon in New York, Mabel wrote her first published article, which compared Stein's use of language with Picasso's use of paint. ...

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Marsala Wine Is Coming Back. Here's Where to Get the Best of It

... York or Suzette Gresham's white-tableclothed Italian Acquerello in San Francisco. Carbone , the lavish Greenwich Village restaurant trying to reclaim Italian-American traditions from conventions of kitsch, even has a vintage marsala from 1930 on its ...

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Bailiwick Chicago to Present Chicago Casting Auction Production of Wonderful Town, 2/25-28

... apartment-dwelling on Christopher Street, involve the various wacky denizens and citizens of bohemian Greenwich Village they encounter while on their search for fortune, fame and romance in the big city. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1953, ...

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Aurora Theatre to Present 4000 MILES, 2/12-3/1

Picture this: an old-world grandmother, new-age grandson and a tiny New York apartment - what could possibly go wrong? Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Time Magazine's number one Play or Musical of 2012, 4000 Miles rolls into Lawrenceville's Aurora Theatre, February 12 - March 1, 2015! Dynamic writer Amy Herzog uses her own feisty grandmother's experiences and stories to shape the character of elderly Vera in this altogether sensitive and comical story. Audiences are invited to take a trip to New York City's Greenwich Village and experience the implausible, yet beautiful relationship of two characters, as they embark on a journey to find their place in today's world.

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Massive snowstorm hits northeast US, life affected

... flew off store shelves. Michelle Thompson, a professor who lives in New York, found little left at a Greenwich Village grocery store. "These are the sort of supplies New Yorkers need," she said gazing at the empty shelves. "Apparently, fresh bread ...

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In Performance Video: Every Brilliant Thing's Jonny Donahoe

Today's New York Times In Performance video features features a scene from Duncan Macmillan's highly acclaimed new play, "Every Brilliant Thing," starring the British comic Jonny Donahoe as a son who creates a huge list of reasons why his depressed and suicidal mother should not end her life. Click here to watch! The North American premiere of Every Brilliant Thing opened December 14, 2014 at 7:30PM at Barrow Street Theatre and runs throught March 29th.

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The Workers - Totem

Dan Greenwald and The Workers boast about already being laden with prestigious accolades which verify their undoubted quality, particularly within their New York City borough of Queens. Well, their latest album, Totem, applies simple, melodic acoustic alternative rock that sounds like something steeped in the counterculture of another juicy chunk of The Big Apple - Manhattan's Greenwich Village and its world-renowned artist circuit.

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Jennifer Aniston Keeps It Simple In a LBD For 'The Daily Show'

Jennifer Aniston was simple yet sophisticated in a little black dress when she stopped by "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Thursday in New York City. The 45-year-old paired the low-cut LBD with a pair of studded slingback heels and a black ribbon in her ponytail.

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Game of Thrones star at StAnza

... Dylan Thomas and friends, while being transported back in time to the heady, bohemian world of New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s. In Scotland's Year of Food and Drink, StAnza has included a food and drink focus in its 2015 programme, ...

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Artist's Abodes: Soaring Aerie of Landscape Painter Has a Gabled Glass Studio

The atmospheric 1920s penthouse in Manhattan belonging to the late landscape painter Jane Freilicher , who died in December, just landed on the market. The three-bedroom property in Greenwich Village is a high-ceilinged duplex attached to a gorgeous 1,000-square-foot greenhouse.

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Group Releases Rating System for Building Responsibly on the Water

New York has always been a waterfront city, but the pleasures, and dangers, of the coast are drawing renewed attention, with more parks and homes. Now, an influential group has a way for New Yorkers to ensure more waterfront building is done to maximum benefit.

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Today in Rock: January 22

On this day in 1959 Buddy Holly makes his last recordings alone with an acoustic guitar in his Greenwich Village apartment. Songs include "Peggy Sue Got Married ", " Crying, Waiting, Hoping" , "That's What They Say", "What to Do" , "Learning the Game" and "That Makes it Tough" .

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Group Releases Rating System for Building Responsibly on the Water

New York has always been a waterfront city, but the pleasures, and dangers, of the coast are drawing renewed attention, with more parks and homes. Now, an influential group has a way for New Yorkers to ensure more waterfront building is done to maximum benefit.

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NYU Admits Error In Not Reporting August Fire Attack To Police

NYU's Rubin Residence Hall on Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village July 15, 2004 in New York City. NEW YORK - New York University is setting the record straight on its investigation into a student who allegedly set another student on fire over the summer.

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Reed Birney and Betty Gilpin Tear It Up in 'I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard'

... a First Act, he found his favorite playwright listed in the phone book and ended up moving into a luxury Greenwich Village with the man, a notorious homosexual who never made a pass at him, and became his assistant. What else could he do? He had no ...

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Student Accused Of Setting Fire To Classmate In NYU Dorm, Recording It

... station groups in the country. Got a nose for [...] NYU's Rubin Residence Hall on Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village July 15, 2004 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A 20-year-old student was arraigned ...

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Coen brothers to chair jury of Cannes Film Festival

This May 19, 2013 file photo shows directors Ethan Coen, left, and Joel Coen during a photo call for the film Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. The Coen brothers and T Bone Burnett will celebrate the folk music of their 1960s Greenwich Village comic drama "Inside Llewyn Davis" with a concert in New York.

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Folk concert to be held for Coens' 'Llewyn Davis'

This May 19, 2013 file photo shows directors Ethan Coen, left, and Joel Coen during a photo call for the film Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. The Coen brothers and T Bone Burnett will celebrate the folk music of their 1960s Greenwich Village comic drama "Inside Llewyn Davis" with a concert in New York.

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Marky Ramone Talks Punk History, Phil Spector, and Italian Food

... and his resume reads with bands that were indeed far ahead of their time. As a teen, Marky hung out in Greenwich Village with Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and his high school band Dust (one of the first heavy metal band in the United States) ...

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Editorial: Oh, my lord

The Daily News Editorial Board approaches this newspaper's opinion pages as, so to speak, a broad church open to a wide range of thoughts. To capture the pulse of the city, we air the perspectives of interesting and engaged New Yorkers.

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Carol Saboya/Antonio Adolfo/Hendrik Meurkens: Copa Village

Now, more than forty-five years later, Adolfo finds himself in a similar situation, working alongside another sunny Brazilian singer and European harmonica player-vocalist Carol Saboya, who happens to be his daughter, and vibraphonist/harmonica player numbers. The album ostensibly draws a parallel between Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana sector and New York's Greenwich Village in the '50s and '60s; the music, however, does not.

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Feroz Galerie opens exhibition featuring the work of Larry Fink

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. Fink was immediately drawn to New York's counterculture, and he soon met a group of artists, writers, and musicians affiliated with a late stage of the Beat Movement.

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Best of 2014 Food Books and Cookbooks

Last year this Examiner discovered a number of truly great cookbooks and food-focused books by way of food and drink events, the fabulous James Beard Foundation's "Beard on Books" series, and the 92St Y food series, among other foodie networks. There seemed to be an increase in the number of "foodoir" - or food-as-memoir styled books authored mainly by famous, celebrity chefs.

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Michigan couple poised to make gay marriage history

... recoup the estate taxes she was forced to pay after her spouse, Thea Spyer, died. She has been feted from Greenwich Village to the White House and is recognized almost everywhere she goes. "I don't think we ever set out to be the next Edie Windsor," ...

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Holiday Season Means Increase in Head Lice Cases in New York

With the holiday season coming to a close, New Yorkers might find that their out of town guests left more behind than stray cell phone chargers. The holiday season typically sees an uptick in the number of head lice cases as many people are traveling, sharing sleeping accommodations in tight quarters, swapping personal belongings and generally in closer proximity to one another than at other times of the year.

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Eyelike: D'Angelo's - Black Messiah' plays to message of rising up

... 'Inside Llewyn Davis'" (Nonesuch) Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene -- and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general -- will relish this recording of a 2013 New York ...

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Review: Album celebrates music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

... at The Town Hall in New York. Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene _ and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general _ will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert ...

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Michigan couple poised to make gay marriage history

... recoup the estate taxes she was forced to pay after her spouse, Thea Spyer, died. She has been feted from Greenwich Village to the White House and is recognized almost everywhere she goes. "I don't think we ever set out to be the next Edie Windsor," ...

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Hailey Baldwin holds hands with gal pal Gabby Westbrook while out...

... Hailey Baldwin was spotted hand-in-hand with model friend Gabby Westbrook while enjoying the day in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York on Thursday Shortly after Gabby posted a picture of the two still laying down together with a pink ...

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Harry V. Jaffa, shaped modern American conservative movement, dies at 96

... Jaffa's career. As a graduate student in 1946 Jaffa was browsing the stacks in a second-hand bookstore in Greenwich Village when he stumbled across a copy of the 1858 debates between Illinois Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and his Republican challenger ...

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Jazz Connect & Winter Jazzfest - a New York state of mind | Festival review

... into the streets in long lines, waiting - in 25 degree weather! - to hear one of 100 acts playing in 10 Greenwich Village venues. At Judson Church, Northwest favorite Ingrid Jensen, on trumpet, conspired with electric keyboardist Jason Miles to ...

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Drake One Fifty's Guest Chef Series Kicks Off with Louro's David Santos

... dishes, Santos serves up the likes of octopus bolognese and suckling pig shoulder with polenta at his Greenwich Village restaurant, Louro . His pop-up offerings at Drake One Fifty, available for dinner on January 20 (sold out) and 21, are expected ...

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Michigan couple poised to make gay marriage history

... recoup the estate taxes she was forced to pay after her spouse, Thea Spyer, died. She has been feted from Greenwich Village to the White House and is recognized almost everywhere she goes. "I don't think we ever set out to be the next Edie Windsor," ...

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Controversial Gravity Knife Law Challenged in Federal Court

A New York appeals court heard oral arguments on January 14 in a challenge to a controversial knife law that has landed tens of thousands of suspects in jail over the past ten years. New York's "gravity knife" law was first passed in the 1950s to combat a type of knife - often quite large and resembling a switchblade - that was popular with youth gangs.

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In a Room

BEFORE HIS DEATH in 2013, jazz guitarist Jim Hall used to hold court at monthly luncheons at French Roast, a bistro in Greenwich Village. He would invite friends and other musicians, and tell stories from his nearly 60 years as both a bandleader and as a sideman for icons like Jimmy Giuffre and Paul Desmond.

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Burger Joint Serves Sick Teen a Meal in Box That Says 'Trash Like You'

... "It's a lot more severe now than just handwriting on a box," said a furious Borghesan, who lives in Greenwich Village with his family. "You threatened the health of my daughter, who is presently very ill." "I was just upset, confused and wondering, ...

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Woody Allen for Amazon Prime: delivering cash, content and credibility

TV on the internet is now an arms race, and in signing Woody Allen , Amazon Prime has delivered a nuclear blast to the competition Before today, the idea of Woody Allen making a show for television seemed akin to David Letterman hosting an open mic night in Greenwich Village. But today is a new day, and Amazon has announced in a press release that the famed auteur and director of Annie Hall, Manhattan and Scoop will be making an original program for the Amazon Prime Instant Video streaming service.

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'Restaurant Startup' Is All Business

... second season tonight at 10:00 pm ET. flagship restaurant Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca, an award-winning Greenwich Village restaurant and nearly a dozen restaurants in the New York area including Lupa, Esca, Casa Mono, Tarry Lodge, and Del Posto. In ...

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Music Review: Album celebrates music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene -- and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general -- will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert celebrating the music of the movie "Inside Llewyn Davis."

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Review: Album celebrates music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

... at The Town Hall in New York. Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene _ and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general _ will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert ...

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No pants on the subway

... Jan. 11, 2015. Participants stand against as wall as they take part in the "No Pants Subway Ride" in Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, Jan. 11, 2015. A man, wearing a bear costume, knits as he takes part in the "No Pants Subway Ride" ...

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Album celebrates music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene - and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general - will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert celebrating the music of the movie "Inside Llewyn Davis." The YGS Group provides digital and printed reprint services for Daily Herald.

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Ensemble ACJW to Perform Meredith Monk's BACKLIGHT at Weill Recital Hall, 2/16

On Monday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall, Ensemble ACJW-an inspirational collective of young professional musicians-performs the New York premiere of a new three-movement work Backlight by acclaimed composer Meredith Monk , holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall this season. Backlight, which plays sonically with the idea of shadow and light and was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Ensemble ACJW, receives its world premiere by the group in the Arthur Zankel Music Center, Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall in Saratoga Springs, New York, on Friday, February 13 at 8:00 p.m., as part of a week-long residency at Skidmore College.

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Film Version of Match, Starring Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard, Will Open This We

The film, also directed by the playwright-screenwriter, will screen at the IFC Center . "Match," according to production notes, "centers on a reclusive, eccentric Julliard dance instructor and avformer choreographer, Tobi , who is visited by a Seattle couple, Lisa and Mike under the pretense of interviewing Tobi for Lisa's thesis on the New York dance movement in the sixties.

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Review: Album celebrates music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene - and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general - will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert celebrating the music of the movie "Inside Llewyn Davis." Produced by the Coens and their musical collaborator T Bone Burnett, the show brought together '60s folk veterans with younger musicians who have reworked the rich seams of 20th century American folk, bluegrass, country and blues.

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Federal analysis: Arts, culture add $700B to US economy

... 'Inside Llewyn Davis'" (Nonesuch) Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene - and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general - will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert ...

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Grain mixed, livestock mixed

... 'Inside Llewyn Davis'" (Nonesuch) Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene - and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general - will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert ...

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Nissan introduces new Titan pickup with diesel engine

... 'Inside Llewyn Davis'" (Nonesuch) Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene - and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general - will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert ...

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Fiat Chrysler looks to add 1,500 jobs in Italian factory

... 'Inside Llewyn Davis'" (Nonesuch) Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene - and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general - will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert ...

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4 Things To Do This Week in New York City's Neighborhoods

As part of Cornelia Street Caf's inaugural "Fork it Over" food talk series , photographer Henry Hargreaves and artist, Caitlin Levin will speak Monday evening about their personal relationship to food and what it is that inspires them to be working as artists using food as the medium. Chef Dan Latham will be on hand to create food pairings.

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The art of hospitality at Row NYC Hotel

Travelers seeking to plunge themselves into the pulse of New York City's famed Times Square area need only book a stay at Row NYC -an independent hotel that prides itself on offering guests an immersive experience in the very heart of Manhattan. While the coveted location, itself, has operated under various identities of yore, including the Lincoln, the Manhattan and, most recently, the Milford Plaza, March 2014 saw the hotel's debut as the Row NYC-the culmination of a two-year, $140 million re-development effort.

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Protesters Aim to Save Harlem's Historic Renaissance Ballroom from Demolition

... Greenwich Village, where two thirds of the buildings there are protected by landmarking...how is it that Greenwich Village is more special than Harlem? It's not," Adams says. Protesters and preservationists do the Lindy Hop and other dances from the ...

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Author Robert Stone has died at 77

National Book Award-winning Robert Stone died Saturday at age 77 at his home in Key West, Fla. His agent told the Associated Press the cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Noteworthy paperbacks

Edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper. In 1933, an 18-year-old Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, from Holland to Istanbul.

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Stage and screen

... novelist Harry Levine comes furiously to the door of his best friend, photographer Jake Manheim's Greenwich Village apartment. Harry has $1.50 in his pocket and Jake owes him money. Jake has even less, but what is worse is that he has not read the ...

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10 Old-Fashioned Spanish Restaurants to Try in New York and New Jersey

In the late 19th century, Chelsea was a de facto Spanish village, populated with merchant seaman who commuted back and forth between New York and the province of Galicia in Spain's rugged and impoverished northwest. By the early 1920s refugees began appearing from other parts of Spain, fleeing dictator Primo Rivera's harsh rule.

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5 Locally Grown Projects At Winter Jazzfest 2015

New York's Winter Jazzfest seems to grow like kudzu: fast and far. This year's installment, the 11th annual, features 500 musicians in styles ranging from gypsy swing to electronic.

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5 Locally Grown Projects At Winter Jazzfest 2015

New York's Winter Jazzfest seems to grow like kudzu: fast and far. This year's installment, the 11th annual, features 500 musicians in styles ranging from gypsy swing to electronic.

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The Most Anticipated New York Theater of 2015

... led by Nathan Lane as Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip the boozing dreamers in a seedy Greenwich Village barroom of their delusions, and Brian Dennehy as nihilistic former anarchist Larry Slade. Lin-Manuel Miranda brought a welcome ...

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50 New Bands You'll Love In 2015: Listen Now

... read on the band, and sees writer Barry Nicolson travel to New York to interview them at Sean Lennon's Greenwich Village apartment. A weird hook-up, but then Fat Whites are a pretty weird bunch of guys. They talk about everything that needs to be ...

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BWW Reviews: Chinese Coffee at The Nyack Village Theater

... The two person play takes place over the course of ninety pressure-packed minutes - in real time - in Greenwich Village in the early 1980s. Harry and Jake, are two longtime friends and confidants who share a bond of failure. Both are unsuccessful ...

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Stonewall is not Selma

... of the best days in my 14 months or so in this chair about 10 days ago. That was at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village when we announced the National Park Service's undertaking this theme study. It was a great day." Tim Gill joined Jewell at the ...

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Jackie Hoffman and John 'Lypsinka' Epperson in Once upon a Mattress,...

Transport Group , the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and OBIE Award-winning theatre company, has announced that its 2015 season will include the world premiere musical The Blonde Streak by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer , slated to run July 5 - August 16 at Theatre 79, and a revival of the classic musical Once Upon a Mattress, starring Jackie Hoffman as Princess Winnifred and John "Lypsinka" Epperson as Queen Aggravain, running November 29 - January 3, 2016 at Abrons Arts Center. Both musicals will be directed by Jack Cummings III.

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TOWN Residential Teams with Roc Nation Sports to Present the Premiere...

The evening of live boxing and star-studded entertainment will be nationally televised on Fox Sports 1 on January 9, 2015 from The Theater at Madison Square Garden. TOWN Residential, New York's leading luxury real estate services firm, has partnered with Roc Nation Sports to present the debut throne boxing event on January 9 from The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

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The Heart of Policing

... there the price was paid in the friction and suspicion produced by stop and frisk. Prospect Heights and Greenwich Village saw only benefit. A lot of people who moved to New York after the millennium and could afford to live in more expensive ...

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The Article That Made Mario Cuomo Governor in 1982 -- No Kidding

... later, Koch had begun to seem a lot less "progressive" than Manhattanites had remembered him being as a Greenwich Village member of the City Council and then of Congress. By 1982, Cuomo was sounding at least as progressive -- and, given his roots, ...

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The Aggregatea , TOWN Residential's Analysis of the Manhattan Real...

While the year-over-year gains have been momentous, especially notable is the luxury market where the average price per square foot is exceeding $2,500. TOWN Residential, New York's leading luxury real estate services firm, has released The Aggregatea - the firm's quarterly residential market report.

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Bess Myerson, scandal-marred Miss America 1945, dies

... to a string of Democratic candidates in New York, not the least of whom was Koch, who was an obscure Greenwich Village congressman before winning the mayoralty in 1977. He squired her around, and they often were seen holding hands on the hustings. ...

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Sonoma dancer overcomes adversity

... as a trainee in the Joffrey School's year-round program will be less scary as she will live in the same Greenwich Village apartment complex owned by the school that she did back then. "It is going to be so hard leaving everyone here but it is so ...

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Bess Myerson, a Miss America tarnished by scandal, dies at 90

... to a string of Democratic candidates in New York, not the least of whom was Koch, who was an obscure Greenwich Village congressman before winning the mayoralty in 1977. He squired her around, and they often were seen holding hands on the hustings. ...

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MOVIES

... and a lot of slow, poetically drawn-out moments of mild anguish or the simple delight of walking through Greenwich Village in the spring. 'O'O'O (Reviewed by Roger Moore) Ben Stiller plays a museum security guard attempting to preserve the magic ...

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Things to do in NYC This Week

Celebration of American Circus The Big Apple Circus, Les 7 Doigts de la Main and Philippe Petit are among the artists and organizations instrumental in revolutionizing the circus arts. This weekend they will be honored at the first Celebration of American Circus, presented by Circus Now.

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Ten New Year's resolutions that can help make New York City a better place to live in 2015

... neighborhood. And keep in mind that you can participate in some groups even if you don't live there. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation is a great example. 5) Identify where you might be part of the problem The unsettling end ...

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Tourist charged $165 to travel less than a MILE in New York pedicab on New Year's Eve

... York pedicab rider. In June 2013 a Japanese couple was reportedly charged $720 for ride from Midtown to Greenwich Village which took 20 minutes. The rider used the Square mobile card-reading app to take the fare. With tourist scams becoming a major ...

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Simple love story invokes smiles, fascination with NYC real estate

... and a lot of slow, poetically drawn-out moments of mild anguish or the simple delight of walking through Greenwich Village in the spring. Have you found an error, or know of something we've missed in one of our stories? Please use the form below and ...

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Robert De Niro urges New Yorkers to donate to heros fund

... Ramos. "It's not only our brave policemen and women who sacrifice for us, it's also their families," the Greenwich Village native told The News. "They've done their duty, and now it's time to do ours." De Niro, renowned for his work in "Raging Bull" ...

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Merimee Moffitt commented on The DitchRider's blog post The Sunday Poem: Diane di Prima . . .

... was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka , ...

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'A Most Violent Year' Review: The High Price of Oil

... Coen and Ethan Coen, begins with Llewyn singing a three-minute song. The setting is the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village in 1961, just before the folk-music scene was transformed by the arrival of Bob Dylan. Elegiac and stirring in equal measure, ...

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