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Andrews Living Arts stages musical "Rent" outside
Staff WriterJust when you are thinking about giving up on Andrews Living Arts Studio’s production of “Rent,” one of the singers comes on and just rocks it … rocks it hard. And that keeps you plugged in to this somewhat wobbly,...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Arts, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Taylor Mead dies at 88; underground film legend and bohemian artist
Taylor Mead, an underground cinema legend whose comic charm and sense of the surreal inspired Andy Warhol and other seminal figures in the alternative film world, died Wednesday in Denver. He was 88. A fixture of bohemian New York who was also a poet...
Tags: Robert Downey Jr., Stroke, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...Tags: New York University, Iraq, Iraq War (2003-2011), Wars and Interventions, Genetics
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To do Wednesday: Tate Stevens, Rayya Elias and "Jewish Broadway"
Music Tate Stevens: The 2012 "X Factor" champ will perform Wednesday night at Renegades Country Bar and Grill in West Palm Beach (600 Village Blvd.). The family-friendly 6 p.m. show will include a bounce house, cotton candy and remote-controlled cars....
Tags: Judaism, The X Factor (tv program), Literature, Religion and Belief, Music Industry
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Will this be Bangladesh's Triangle fire moment?
Last week, more than 300 people were killed in the collapse of a building that housed clothing manufacturers in the Dhaka region of Bangladesh. Many dozens more may be buried in the rubble. Just five months earlier, 112 workers died in a factory fire,...
Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Immigration, New York City, Greenwich Village, Bangladesh
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Seth Meyers, Hannibal Buress come home for 'Just For Laughs Chicago' in June
RedEyeSeth Meyers and Hannibal Buress are coming home for the fifth annual TBS Just for Laughs Chicago comedy festival in June. Evanston native Meyers, who runs the "Saturday Night Live" writers' room and "Weekend Update," is one of the festival's anchors--get...Tags: Dylan Moran, The Shield (tv program), The New York Times, Festive Events, Rescue Me (tv program)
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Perez to headline UPJ commencement
Activist, Academy Award-nominated actress and Emmy-nominated choreographer Rosie Perez is to speak at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown’s 41st annual Commencement ceremony. Perez is a vocal advocate for many causes, and has spoken...Tags: University of Pittsburgh, AIDS, Bronx (New York City), Hispanic Heritage Month, Manhattan (New York City)
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No clouds, no sun for Pat DiNizio and the Smithereens
Pat DiNizio likes things real. He buys his music from Vintage Vinyl in Fords, N.J. He buys his meat from John's, a family-owned butcher in Scotch Plains. He likes the "ritual" walk from his Lower East Side apartment at Seventh and A to the nearby...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Meyer Amphitheatre, Bob Dylan, Entertainment, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Mojo Tour (2010)
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The Best of "Kosher Style" in Connecticut
Katz's Delicatessen, on Manhattan's East Houston Street, is the most nostalgic of New York's Jewish delis and a destination for food tourists and American Jews searching for their roots. Jared Goldstein of jaredthenyctourguide.com puts Katz's as the...
Tags: Stamford, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Montville, Religion and Belief, Litchfield (Litchfield, Connecticut)
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Holy Food!: Kosher and Its Imitators in Connecticut
What exactly is kosher? The short answer is a religious certification given to any cooked or processed food that an observant Jew is permitted to eat. A satisfying answer in detail is not easy, so a visual aid may help: picture three identical matzo...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Pizzas, Breads, Storrs, New York City
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Using images to change history
The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond...Tags: Emmett Till, Justice and Rights, Minority Groups, Paul Robeson, Baltimore County
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Rich memories of a Colombian family in New York
"Empanada for a Dream" As debates about the escalating murder rate in Chicago continue to rage on, Juan Francisco Villa's solo, "Empanada for a Dream," offers a portrait simultaneously timely and a time capsule of life in a neighborhood ravaged by drugs...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), McDonald's, Cantinflas, Arts and Culture, Manhattan (New York City)
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