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Mouth's online indie food store now includes California artisans (fig jam, Wine Country honey)
Online food purveyor New York Mouth is now simply Mouth. The Brooklyn-based company, which sells local goods from indie food makers located across New York's five boroughs, has recently expanded its online shopping platform to also include handmade,...
Tags: Viniculture, Honey, Thyme
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Drug trafficker for the mob kept cash, cocaine in Beverly Hills
A drug trafficker working for organized crime in New York kept millions of dollars and dozens of kilograms of cocaine in his homes in Beverly Hills, prosecutors said Thursday. Alessandro Taloni pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court...Tags: Prosecution, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, Crime, Law and Justice, Mexico
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Anthony Weiner in N.Y. mayor race 2 years after 'sexting' scandal
NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose once-shining political career collapsed after lewd online relationships with women forced him to resign from Congress two years ago, entered New York's mayoral race Wednesday with promises to make...Tags: Elections, Queens (New York City), Hillary Clinton, U.S. Congress, Anthony D. Weiner
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Global cyber-gang steals $45 million from ATMs in just hours
NEW YORK — A worldwide gang of criminals stole a total of $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said Thursday — and...
Tags: Criminals, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Bank Robbery, Prosecution
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Herbert Blau dies at 87; theater director helped shape CalArts
Herbert Blau, an influential theater director, theorist and scholar who helped shape CalArts during its early years, died at his home in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. He had cancer, according to the Seattle Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Stanford University, Arts and Culture, Education
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PASSINGS: Frederic Franklin, David Morris Kern
Frederic Franklin Dancer helped popularize modern ballet in U.S. Frederic Franklin, 98, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States, died Saturday at a Manhattan, N.Y., hospital of complications from pneumonia,...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Arts and Culture, The Arizona Republic, Lincoln Center, Norwich
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Superstorm Sandy aid center on Staten Island fights order to leave
NEW YORK — It has been six months since Donna Graziano packed a barbecue into her car, drove 15 miles from her Brooklyn home to Staten Island, and began cooking for residents of a neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. Her one-woman effort in a...
Tags: New Dorp, Rentals, Staten Island (New York City), Event Planning, Relief and Aid Organizations
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Cablevision to give kids network Sprout a boost
Sprout is spreading its roots. The kids network aimed at children ages 2 to 5 has landed a distribution deal with Cablevision Systems Corp., a large pay-TV operator in the New York City area. Getting access to Cablevision subscribers is key for Sprout...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Queens (New York City), Cablevision Systems Corp., Netflix Inc., Long Island
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2013 TV upfronts: Fox unveils fall and midseason schedules
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.NEW YORK -- With ratings for "American Idol" tumbling and few new hits to speak of other than "The Following," Fox will unveil a 2013-14 schedule Monday that includes five new comedies and four dramas during its upfront presentation to advertisers in...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Raising Hope (tv program), The Following (tv program), Barbara Walters, Andy Samberg
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PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel
Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....Tags: Heart Attack, Queens (New York City), University of Michigan, Freedom of the Press, Hofstra University
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Review: Darcy James Argue's Secret Society taps into Brooklyn
What does Brooklyn sound like? While the fashionably clad, underemployed youth of Lena Dunham's "Girls" may spring to mind given the New York City borough's pop cultural footprint, bandleader Darcy James Argue paints a broader picture of a time and...
Tags: Entertainment, Prologue, Culture, Arts and Culture, Girls (tv program)
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Review: Andrew Norman a sound investment at Brooklyn Festival
There is little mistaking California's 22nd largest city for Brooklyn, N.Y., to say nothing of the literally lifeless Glendale section of western Queens, adjacent to Brooklyn. Unlike New York City's Glendale, ours has, despite accommodating Forest Lawn,...
Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Queens (New York City), Culture, Arts and Culture
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