Race plays offer liberals an easy way to remember the good fight
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Dhaba raises the bar in Curry Hill
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A dance-theater interpretation of Antigone that never left women's college
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Documentary film director Sophie Fiennes speaks about working with Zizek, why Lynch is a 'psychic transvestite' and how lesbians are the true heterosexuals
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By the time we showed up at the Spank first anniversary loft party, not an unsoiled copy of the ‘zine could be found. The sixth floor space was crowded with boys (and a few women) dancing and drinking and the flimsy periodical suffered under the revelry. We did discover a few soaked or scuffed copies
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National Book Awards Dusts Off Olds of Letters for a Night on the Town
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Joan Rivers and her plans to cut up at the Cutting Room
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It looked like it might rain, but the kids and parents lined up at the ice cream truck to get something cold and sweet. “We have grape popsicles and bomb pops left. Red, white and blue,” Aaron Gach told the little girl who tried to hand him a dollar for the free dessert. “Now, what
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Best idea we’ve heard today: San Francisco-based Indie filmmaker Kate Montgomery (”Christmas In The Clouds,” 2001) suggests that we all make a small donation to Planned Parenthood– in the name of Sarah Palin. Instead of heading over to Jamba Juice, you can use one of your credit lines to subvert the system (and help young
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That Wainwright clan has a thing for covering other divas. After brother Rufus took his Judy Garland idea to Carnegie Hall, younger sis Martha would be hard-pressed to find a suitable chanteuse to trump such a publicity perfect performance. But she's managed to do it with her decision to perform chansons of Edith Piaf, who has rocketed to new fame amongst the youthful due to the incredible performance of Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose.

Last night Martha Wainwright performed 15 songs, mostly Piaf's, as well as a couple of other French-language songs with her mother and aunt, Kate and Anne McGarrigle. She also invited her big brother Rufus Wainwright to play piano for a Josephine Baker song.

It felt something like a semi-professional dress rehearsal, Martha joked that they'd only started to rehearse the day before, and she had failed to memorize the Piaf songs, relying on printed lyrics that she stared at constantly and would whip through during songs, letting the pages fall to the floor...

Continue reading and MORE PHOTOS of "Martha as Edith" here.
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