via Flavourpill: To celebrate the Gowanus Canal Cleanup's beautification of southeastern Carroll Gardens, Eidolon Culture has organized HABITATS — four days of neighborly panels and performances. Community...
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"# Lance Armstrong will have a crazy team of people who will pace him: Past marathon winner Alberto Salazar and Joan Benoit Samuelsson and Olympic 1500m and 5000m champion Hicham el-Guerrouj!
# Paul Tergat and...
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"It may be art to Arthur Wood, 75, who has lived in the Brooklyn building known as the Broken Angel for 27 years. But to the Department of Buildings, the hulking brick, wood and glass structure at 4 Downing Street...
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The news that the Big Apple is set up for the Indian cricket team to play a series of ODIs is exciting for the thousands of Indian ex-pats who now call New York home and have yet to see live the likes of Mahendra Dhoni.
"Yes. A mere week after celebrating our one-year anniversary and now it looks as if we will be CLOSING sometime around November 6th.
However, since discussing this likelihood, I have received hundreds of horrified emails and phone calls ("That can't happen."; "What the...
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Perhaps this is an insider tip for international visitors of New york City. But since my last visit to New york City I've discovered the raw, slightly strange yet wonderful boardwalk of Coney Island. here, you'll find amusement, rides and other oddities for every age and...
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This is Posh's chance to do so something good for the world. She should be the new poster girl for an anti-anorexia campaign. I really think that many young women are so desperate to be thin, to look like her,...
created by Victoria Revay | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 2089 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
These are vulgar and disgusting. And interesting as well, somehow. It reminded me of a fascinating lecture Jennifer Willet of Bioteknica did at ArtCamp a couple of weeks ago, in which she described their work creating and exhibiting fictional tetronomas, which are these crazy...
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"Sunday evening at McCarren Park is the finals for Brooklyn Kickball. Not only will the winners of Sunday's game get to take home the Chuck D trophy, they will also be able to say they have the best hipster kickball team in all of New York City. The final four are: Tigers,...
It’s the birthday of composer George Gershwin, born in Brooklyn, New York (1898). He made his name as a composer with the piece Rhapsody in Blue (1924), when he was just 26 years old.
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"George Foreman - bald, smiling and gigantic - is propped atop a stool
in Gleason's Gym, the venerable boxing haunt in Brooklyn, watching a
videotape of his heavyweight championship bout in 1994 with Michael
Moorer."
"A Web site used by the gunman who killed one and wounded 19 at a Montreal college had surfaced in other violent Canadian incidents, including one in which an Alberta girl allegedly killed her family in April.
The...
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"Bargain hunters will love this one.
Brooklyn Heights' Lookout Hill Condominium, a new building from Alchemy Properties , has equipped all 46 units with a Sirius satellite radio and free one-year subscription. Alchemy Properties is the first real estate developer in New York...
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"Bill Etra is the Ferret King. The legendary and charismatic multi-media pioneer and cofounder of the Kitchen performs his outrageous Ferret poetry at Jack the Pelican on September 15, starting at 8pm."
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"Terrorists turned planes into missiles and leveled the World Trade Center in 2001. Paul Myoda, a RISD graduate and now a Brown University faculty member, saw the surreal aftermath that night from Brooklyn.
The...
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