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Hawk swoops inside NYC apartment building
NEW YORK (AP) — A red-tailed hawk caused quite a stir after flying through an open window of a five-story New York City apartment building. Tenant Joe Moderski says he thought he had missed a pillow fight because there were so many feathers in...Tags: New York, New York City
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He done Ma proud: 26-year-old Tumblr founder's transformation from whiz kid to tech king
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — As a teenager, Tumblr CEO David Karp would canvass the streets of New York City's Upper West Side, offering to build websites for local businesses. After his freshman year of high school, the precocious, computer-savvy kid decided to...Tags: Business, Media Industry, Marissa Mayer, Computer Networking and Internet, New York City
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TV personality, restaurateur Donatella Arpaia to appear in Charles Town, W.Va.
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comFood Network personality Donatella Arpaia has her life scheduled to the minute. After all, these days the 41-year-old restaurateur has a lot on her plate. When she’s not opening up a restaurant, whipping up some of her award-winning meatballs,...Tags: Justice System, Food Network (tv network), Restaurants, Crime, Law and Justice, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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'Mad Men' recap, 'For Immediate Release'
Peggy's back, and so is the "Mad Men" we all love. True, Peggy has appeared in the show for most of this season. And the overall themes (prostitution and adultery) are still present in "For Immediate Release." But it’s as though the writers were...Tags: Prostitution, Upper East Side, Human Interest, Mad Men (tv program), Sex Crimes
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Review: Aaron Copland as a hinge
Times have certainly changed in Brooklyn. Streets unsafe last decade now bustle invitingly. Composers born in the borough last century couldn't get away fast enough. Composers from all over now can't move there fast enough. Thursday night at Walt Disney...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Music, Music Industry, Culture
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Nelson Algren, Kanye West, Emmett Till, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Chan Lowe: Anthony Weiner runs for mayor of New York City
Even by New York standards, Anthony Weiner’s political comeback is a little…precipitate. After all, Bill Clinton waited longer than two years to rehabilitate himself after the Monica Lewinsky debacle, and he didn’t expose himself to...
Tags: Monica Lewinsky, New York City, Manhattan (New York City)
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Cyndi Lauper struts onto Broadway with 'Kinky Boots'
NEW YORK — Cyndi Lauper, garlanded in enough jewelry to make the Queen of Sheba jealous, is wondering if she should add yet another bauble. "It's a whatchamacallit, like a Sicilian good luck charm. Whaddya think?" she asks a coterie of...
Tags: Vivienne Westwood, Theater, Music, Broadway Theater, Music Theater
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It's all smiles at Cafe Grumpy
NEW YORK — Until last year, Café Grumpy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was mostly known as a destination for the serious coffee drinker, the type of place where each modestly sized cup is individually brewed and goes for $4 a pop. Now, thanks to "Girls,...
Tags: Broadway Theater, The Good Wife (tv program), Restaurants, Blue Bloods (tv program), Dining and Drinking
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Tony Awards 2013: Ceremony returning to Radio City Music Hall
After two consecutive years at the Beacon Theatre on New York's Upper West Side, the Tony Awards ceremony will return to the more spacious Radio City Music Hall this year. Organizers of Broadway's biggest night announced Monday that the annual awards...
Tags: Theater, Academy Awards, Neil Patrick Harris, Music, Music Theater
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Pope Francis's beautiful, necessary silence
Shortly after the proclamation of the new pope, a reporter for U.S. television told his audience that the Catholics of Latin America "have waited 20 centuries for a pope to come from this region." Well. There were, of course, no Catholics in Latin...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Christianity, Game Playing, Religion and Belief, Money and Monetary Policy
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Competition films announced for 2013 Florida Film Festival
The 2013 Florida Film Festival is shaping up to be the biggest one yet: Enzian Theater, which hosts the festival, says a record-breaking 170 films representing 23 countries have been selected from more than 1,500 entries. Of the 170 films, 143 are...
Tags: August (movie), Celebrities, Florida Film Festival, Entertainment, Jesse Eisenberg
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