OTHER EVENTS BORDERLANDS: TEXAS POETRY REVIEW Seeks emerging …

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Seeks emerging & established artists for Fall/Winter 2001 issue, visit www.borderlands.org for submission & guideline info; deadline is July 1.   CHRISTOPHER BRIAN WOLK PLAYWRITING AWARD The Abingdon Theatre Co. will award $1000 to an emerging playwright. Submit three copies of your work w/SASE to 432 W. 42nd St., 4th fl. NYC 10036 by June
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Songs of Summer Songs of Summer Tuesday afternoon, …

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Tuesday afternoon, a couple of weeks ago. Manhattan is glinting under a bright blue sky, it’s 70 degrees, and thousands of young adults in purple robes are pouring out of Madison Square Garden, with thousands more parents and grandparents and siblings, jamming the sidewalks, flowing like a purple river into 7th Ave., snarling the taxi
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Monica Coghlan, the Tiny Hooker with the Big Trick

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The story broke–as this kind of Peck’s bad boy story invariably seems to break–in the tabloids. A bleary photograph of a man handing an envelope to a woman stared out from the pages of the Oct. 26, 1986, issue of Britain’s News of the World. The man: Michael Stacpoole, spin doctor for then 46-year-old Conservative
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PERFORMANCE ART BROTHER Multimedia show pres. "songs your mother …

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Multimedia show pres. "songs your mother never taught you;" P.S. 122, 150 1st Ave. (E. 9th St.) 212-477-5288 or ps122.org, Thurs.-Tues. at 8:30, $20.   FAKESHOP: CAPSULE HOTEL Inspired by a Tokyo hotel room, this combination movie, audio installation & digital image gallery attempts to convey isolation & interconnectivity–the website is pretty disturbing at www.fakeshop.com/capsule_hotel/;
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The New Republic’s Curious Political Puddle; Just as Confused as Tom Daschle; Next Stop: A Federal Holiday on Crazy Horse’s Birthday

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Granted, Master Peter Beinart‘s place-holder editorship of The New Republic has produced a pale version of the provocative magazine two of his predecessors, Michael Kelly and Andrew Sullivan, oversaw during the 1990s, but it has a herky-jerky quality that’s not altogether boring. The May 21 issue is an apt example: The cover, which shows an
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Rich Sport

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Last weekend I had to skip Rufus Albemarle’s wedding in Havana Vieja in favor of a cold boardroom in Geneva. Although an unforgiving foe of Fidel’s and everything he stands for, I was actually looking forward to visiting Havana, if only for the fact that the nearest McDonald’s is 90 miles away. Lord Albemarle is
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