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  Things to do on Sunday for (mostly) free

  the National Weather Service is promising 82 degrees and disappearing clouds -- Broadway on Broadway - the casts from 20+ Broadway shows will be performing live on Broadway between 43d and 47th, starting at 11:30. Michael McKean (Spinal Tap, an up...

  @ Runnin' Scared by Julia on September 12, 2009 @ 11:47 pm

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  Fashion Week in Review: Voice Editors gChat Fashion's Night Out

  AC: How many glasses of champagne did you have at Barney's? SA: Three. AC: Me too. I was toast by the time Alexander Wang arrived. SA: Barney's had one of the most interesting ambiances we saw during FNO. They put little flourishes on each floo...

  @ Runnin' Scared by Village Voice contributor on September 12, 2009 @ 9:25 pm

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  Fashion Week in Review: St. Vincent at Rachel Comey, Fiery Furnaces at Vena Cava, a Grizzly Bear at Both

  How do you know if you're at a super hip Brooklyn fashion designer's show? Just look for the super hip Brooklyn band playing the catwalk. Rachel Comey scored the lovely sounds of St. Vincent while Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava ...

  @ Runnin' Scared by Angela Ashman on September 12, 2009 @ 9:10 pm

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  Fashion Week in Review: Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. at Milk Studios

  by Michael Miller. Remember last season's fashion week, when everything was doom and gloom and designers sent what looked like funeral gowns -- everything but the veil -- down the runway? Well, yeah, the fashion press is still talking abou...

  @ Runnin' Scared by Village Voice contributor on September 12, 2009 @ 12:07 am

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  Ask a Mexican! Rebel Amnesty? - The Know-Nothings have been holding out on the Mexican

  Dear Mexican: I'm surprised by the choice of the word "amnesty" by those who would demonize immigration reform, especially in the South. Doesn't the modern well-being of many Southerners derive in some way from their ancestors' having sworn to amnes...

  by Gustavo Arellano on January 12, 2010

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  Free Will Astrology: January 13 through 19, 2010

  ARIES [March 21-April 19] The Earth's north magnetic pole is not the same as the geographic North Pole. If you take out a compass to orient yourself toward due north, the compass arrow will actually point toward a spot in the frigid wilds of Canada....

  by Rob Brezsny on January 12, 2010

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  George W. Obama - After his first year, Obama shows his true face

  Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Acc...

  by Nat Hentoff on January 12, 2010

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  Sandra Bullock Drops From View! - Person-to-person with Sully Sullenberger, Michael Fassbender.

  I simply adore The New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend events because some other journalist has to work his or her ass off onstage, interviewing a cultural figure for 75 minutes as I simply lean back in the audience and jot down the highlights. ...

  by Michael Musto on January 12, 2010

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  In a Crime-Free City, How Does a Young Gangbanger Represent?

  You now live in the safest New York City that has existed since the Beatles came to America. Murders are now so rare--at least for a city this size--that you have to go back to the Kennedy administration to find similar numbers. Just ask Mayor Bl...

  by Graham Rayman on January 12, 2010

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  Gunning for the Working Families Party - Landlords, lawyers fire at will

  In 1938, in the teeth of the Great Depression, the Roosevelt administration won passage of a 40-hour-week wage law. Employers were now obliged to pay their workers overtime. Shock and horror echoed across the nation's business establishments. The...

  by Tom Robbins on January 12, 2010

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  Are High-Stakes Tests Harming NYC Schools? - Are No Child Left Behind and Bloomberg's report cards pushing schools to go grade-grubbing?

  It was not Mayor Bloomberg's proudest moment. Last month, the federal government released New York City schools' rankings on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) math tests for 2009--and their scores had flatlined, even as scores o...

  by Neil deMause on January 12, 2010

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  U. Tube: Student Teachers Learn From Video Training

  The teacher sits in a large wooden rocking chair. One by one, she invites her third-graders to get up from their desks and take a place in front of her on the rug. "Thank you, Kiara," she says, complimenting a scrawny child with long black hair for ...

  by Brenda Iasevoli on January 12, 2010

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  City Universities Are Part of Bloomberg's Green Jobs Vision

  Winter is miserable in New York. The arctic blasts whoosh in off the water and cut through hats and scarves and coats as if they're not even there. Other than turning up your collar, leaning forward, and squinting, there's nothing you can do with th...

  by Michael P. Ventura on January 12, 2010

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  Class Action Listings 2010

  Theater & Performing Arts If your guitar gently weeps, perhaps you can cheer it up by enrolling in a class at the Brooklyn Guitar School in downtown Brooklyn. Courses range from "Guitar for Absolute Beginners"--wherein students learn tunes by R.E...

  by Alexis Soloski on January 12, 2010

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  Snyder Attack Ads Cost Her a Backer

  Leslie Crocker Snyder's no-holds-barred attack ads on rival Cy Vance Jr. for serving as attorney for "murderers, mobsters and white collar criminals" are backfiring - at least among some lawyers. Snyder lost one of her most prominent backers thi...

  @ Runnin' Scared by Tom Robbins on September 11, 2009 @ 6:35 pm

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  Annie Liebovitz Gets Loan Extension, Will Keep Homes

  Art Capital Group -- to which the beleaguered photographer owes $24 million dollars -- has just agreed to extend the terms of a loan it granted her last year, which was apparently squandered by Leibovitz, who is known for lavish spending habits. A...

  @ Runnin' Scared by Elizabeth Dwoskin on September 11, 2009 @ 4:48 pm

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  Why Taylor Swift Ain't a Mess

  My stunning reply: "Unlike so many young stars who've turned into walking train wrecks, Taylor didn't suffer the disadvantage of having attention-seeking parents managing her career by force, thereby twisting her values and making her a pawn of thei...

  @ La Daily Musto by Michael Musto on September 11, 2009 @ 4:45 pm

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  Jockbeat: Giants Season Preview

  And if you go by the most important single passing statistic, yards per throw (6.76 for Eli last year), he is only the 21st best. And since the Giants had, by consensus, one of the best offensive lines in the league, a terrific running game (number ...

  @ Runnin' Scared by Allen Barra on September 11, 2009 @ 4:35 pm

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  Barrett: More Unsavory Characters on Snyder's Campaign Money List

  Richard Gilder embodies activist city conservatives, co-founding both the Manhattan Institute and the Club for Growth, as well as bankrolling the State Conservative Party for years. A former business partner of George W. Bush's in the ownership of th...

  @ Runnin' Scared by Wayne Barrett on September 11, 2009 @ 3:55 pm

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  Michael Jackson Tribute Concert Canceled

  And so, Jermaine has pulled the plug on the Jacko tribute concert scheduled for Vienna, characteristically blaming the press while vowing to reorganize the thing next year in London, where it'll be way more appreciated. There, they can probably get K...

  @ La Daily Musto by Michael Musto on September 11, 2009 @ 3:48 pm