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Don't be fooled, 'The Princess and the Frog' doesn't mean change has come to Disney's animated white house In a culture where advertising hype is more ubiquitous—seemingly more "real"—than the movies themselves, The Princess and the Frog’s feels like the ultimate betrayal: ...
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As I watched the Bronx Gridlock skate their way to victory,
I had mixed emotions. I was happy,
because they won in a neck-to-neck game against the Manhattan Mayhem, but sad
as well since their victory symbolized the end of the 2009 derby season. This was my first year watching the
Gotham Girls ...
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The idea of heading to downtown Manhattan in
the throws of Black Friday shopping crowds is enough...
to induce agoraphobic anxiety in even the most stalwart of holiday revelers. But not the Brooklyn Flea. The popular open-air market from Dumbo and Ft. ...
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If you thought that your locavore feast was going to be something special, you were wrong. The folksy New York Times is now showing a video of a bunch of fearsome foodies in North Carolina who are hunting their own deer. Suck on that. ---...
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Sarah Ruhl’s new play (the vibrator one) lacks juice Well, Michael Cerveris certainly has a type. Fresh off of last spring’s misguided revival of Hedda Gabler starring Mary-Louise Parker, Cerveris is co-starring with another actress giving an anachronistic performance in a period ...
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Working as a busker is no walk in the park THE HOUR WAS growing late and the hustle and bustle of Central Park’s Great Lawn was steadily decreasing, as was the number of people willing to toss loose change or bills into the upside down baseball cap that lay at my feet. An elderly gentleman ...
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Get ready for drudgery in John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic tale OBSERVING MAYHEM AND cannibalism, a boy trekking through wilderness with his father after surviving some unnamed holocaust asks, “Are we still the good guys?”This hipster ...
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ROYAL YOUNG couldn’t even guess who was coming to dinner (until it was too late). I ALMOST BURNED my homemade cranberry sauce because I was so anxious the strangers my parents had invited from Craigslist to our Thanksgiving dinner would turn out to be mass murderers. My artist/social ...
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A dinner party can’t be denied, even if JOSH BERNSTEIN has a pesky thing like the flu SINCE QUITTING THAT soul-eating porn-editing job eight years ago and becoming a full-time freelancer, I’ve assumed a modified mailman’s ethos: Neither rain, nor snow, nor hangover, nor ...
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AOL is blasting into the 21st Century, guns blazing, with a brand new logo! The yellow “running man” is turning 13 this year—about 60 years younger than the average AOL enthusiast. While they’re not completely retiring the old image, the company is making him take a back ...
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Whether you're going for red or black, the finale of the world's biggest Connect Four Championship is going on tonight at The Bell House, 149 7th St. (betw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.), Brooklyn, 718-643-6510; 7, Free.---Canadian alt.-country trio Elliott Brood perform tonight with Bryan Scary & ...
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Bryan Scary, a Gowanus-based songwriter whose upbeat songs are anything but scary, spoke to us from a gas station 30 miles outside of Jackson, Mississippi, on the middle of his tour. Tonight, he’ll be back home to play Union Hall. ---You have an agile voice. How did you get your start ...
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Brian Scary, a Gowanus-based songwriter whose upbeat songs are anything but scary, spoke to us from a gas station 30 miles outside of Jackson, Mississippi, on the middle of his tour. Tonight, he’ll be back home to play Union Hall. ---You have an agile voice. How did you get your start ...
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Why does science have to ruin everything? A bunch of researchers, in their mad dash to create a huge DNA database for identifying fish, have discovered that an alarming amount of sushi here in New York City is not actually what is advertised. These Scientists have to learn the phrase ...
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Sharp corners and big
balloons seems the kind of coupling that ends with a big POP! But we’ll find
out for sure on Thursday when the classic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
forgoes the great white way for a new parade route filled with twists and
turns.---
The AP reports ...
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Pajamas and cupcakes at Creative Time's Ace Hotel sleepover The art world regressed back to childhood last Wednesday night with a sleepover-themed fundraiser for public art organization Creative Time at The Ace Hotel. In case anyone forgot they were in fact grown-ups, designer pajamas by Will ...
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From The Moth Ball to Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses They invade your house, fluttering silently around the lamps at night, scaring the crap out of you, making holes in your sweaters. Moths flock to the light. It’s no different at The Moth, a popular storytelling series, named by writer ...
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I thought the craziness surrounding turkey preparation reached
its climax a few years ago when people got all goofy about deep frying their
Thanksgiving Day birds. I was wrong. Local tavern owner Paul Hurley has come up
with a new way to dress up Turkey Tom this Thursday, and unfortunately ...
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Pixies start a three-night round about town tonight
with Black Gold at Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 W. 34th
St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.), 212-279-7740; 8,
$46.---
Coco Montoya and the Tommy Castro Band are at B.B. King Blues
Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd St. (betw. 7th & 8th Aves.), ...
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A walk of shame looking like
a disheveled mess and wearing last nights party clothes normally gets you
all the wrong kind of attention, but not so for Astoria resident Elizabeth
Kuchta. Her “walk of shame” outfit snagged her the honor of Miss G Train
2009.---
Kuchta, 27, ...
