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The Man and The Music - Charles Strouse

Charles Strouse isn’t a name that immediately rings a bell with most people the way, say, Andrew Lloyd Webber does.  If you say “the great musical composer, Charles Strouse”  people don’t go “Ahhhh, right, of course”.  But mention some of his iconic songs and right away the “wow, I didn’t know he wrote that“s and ... Read The Full Article...

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Meet Lidia Bastianich

by Karen Tortora-Lee on October 29, 2009

In the early part of the century (yes, that would be the year 2000) I became fascinated with Lidia Bastianich and made a point of telling everyone that I wanted to go to her restaurant, Felidia (243 E. 58th New York, NY 10022). People tend to like me (what can I say?) so everyone made a ... Read The Full Article...

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Mmmmm … Cake

by Karen Tortora-Lee on October 25, 2009

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If you’re like me, you love cake.   And the internet.  And laughing at other people’s mistakes. So chances are you’ve come across Cake Wrecks already and I’m not about to tell you anything new.  This tip is not for you. This tip is for those among us who have technology-averse loved ones who say things ... Read The Full Article...

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Clean Plates

Last month, I had a conversation with my friend Jared Koch about his new book which he recently published called “Clean Plates”.  Jared was born in Brooklyn, and currently resides in West NY, NJ.  He used to own a high-end events/entertainment company, but he sold the business about 10 years ago and has been “entreprenuring” ... Read The Full Article...

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Keith Chow

Paolo Javier chats with Keith Chow about the inaugural Asian American Comicon in post-convention glow. Asian Americans have been vital contributors to the American comic book since, well, its birth, a fact rarely acknowledged by an industry that continues to uphold a homogeneously white and hetero imaginary on the covers and in the panels of ... Read The Full Article...

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Webster’s Dictionary defines Theatre as … come on. You really think I’d start off like that? Theatre as concept, theatre as concrete structure, theatre as war … for the purposes of these posts, “theatre” is any time someone stands (sits or lays) in front of a group of others and entertains them. So today rather ... Read The Full Article...

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CIRCUMLOCUTION \sir-kuhm-loh-KYOO-shuhn\, noun: The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few. I have been accused of circumlocution virtually since the day I started speaking. If you flip through the pages of my life and stop at almost any day, you’ll find a conversation like this one going on: ... Read The Full Article...

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