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The Jane Hotel's Connection to the Titanic Draws a Crowd
New York City has no shortage of sites that have ...
New York City has no shortage of sites that have a direct connection to the Titanic. (See our handy map of some of them below.) One such landmark is the Jane Hotel, formerly known as the American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute, which
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Authors Conjure Up 'Strange Places' in Readings at Happy Ending
The theme for the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series ...
The theme for the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub in March was Strange Places. Listen to the extraordinary — and absurd — environments that authors Jessica Anthony, Amelia Gray and Heidi Julavitz conjured up their readings. Host and cu
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Bringing At-Risk Teens Closer to Home: A Forum on Juvenile Justice at The New School
The Center for New York City Affairs hosted a forum ...
The Center for New York City Affairs hosted a forum on February 2 to review the connection between child welfare and juvenile justice in New York City and the state. The event, entitled “Ties That Bind: Reimagining juvenile justice and child welfare for
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The Fire in Him: John Hurt Sets Krapp's Record Straight
If there is a lesson to be learned from the ...
If there is a lesson to be learned from the post-curtain talk between John Hurt — who has just finished a limited run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater in Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” — and philosopher Simon Critchley, it’s that if you t
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Talk to Me: Behaving Badly at Happy Ending
The Happy Ending Music and Reading series has formed a ...
The Happy Ending Music and Reading series has formed a partnership with the arts colony Yaddo located in Saratoga Springs, New York, to present programs featuring writers who have been Yaddo fellows. On December 7th, curator Amanda Stern welcomed three Y
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Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts & Ideas ...
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts & Ideas series this month with “The ‘Chindia’ Dialogues,” a three-day forum that examined the confluence of the world’s two most powerful developing economies. The organizers chose an unusual point of d
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Lovely Bones: Celebrating Anne Sexton at the Cornelia Street Café
The poet Anne Sexton took her own life in 1974, ...
The poet Anne Sexton took her own life in 1974, but had she lived, this year would have marked her 83rd birthday. Reason enough, thought the actor Paul Hecht, to organize an elegant tribute to her at the Cornelia Street Café on Nov. 14. Two strong women
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Oxymoron: Frustration at Happy Ending
With the three-month wait for the re-opening of newly renovated ...
With the three-month wait for the re-opening of newly renovated Joe’s Pub over at last, you’d think there would be cause for celebration. But Happy Ending Music & Reading series host and curator Amanda Stern decided on “frustration” as the theme of h
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Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger Have High School Reunion at KGB Bar
Two famed poets, essayists and translators — Lydia Davis and ...
Two famed poets, essayists and translators — Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger — recently read from new work at the True Story: Non-Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar in the East Village. Davis ("The Varieties of Disturbance: Stories") and Weinberger (
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The Asia Society Presents Oral Histories from Burma
Below, listen to Kathryn Grody and Wallace Shawn read the ...
Below, listen to Kathryn Grody and Wallace Shawn read the oral histories of Khin Lwe and Hla Min. Introduction by Orville Schell, the director of the Asia Society's Center on US China Relations.
