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'Project Runway' recap: City scapes and inspiration
Reality CheckJanell reports on last night's Project Runway. And makes me wish I was a lot funnier, as per usual:Previously, Ivy became a national nightmare, but then we woke up and she was still eliminated. Oh, and so was Christopher. Now,......Tags: Project Runway (tv program), Flatiron, Entertainment, Michael Bloomberg, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Immigration roils small-town America
The Swampby Jim Tankersley and Christi Parsons Fourth in an occasional series, United States of Anxiety MANASSAS, Va.--It's patrol day for Maureen Wood and Allison Kipp. Armed with a notebook and cell phone, the two friends set off in a minivan......Tags: Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), Immigration, Racism, John McCain, Justice and Rights
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Silver: Did he say this with a straight face? (Updated)
Spin CycleMalcolm Smith's Senate, proving that it's not going to be a rubber stamp and will open up government, announced yesterday that it will have a hearing today on Paterson's nomination of Jonathan Lippman to the Court of Appeals, followed......Tags: Justice System, Court Administration, Sheldon Silver, Upper House, Parliament
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Speaker Shelly survivor: Others licked, he still ticks
Spin CycleJust call him Assembly Speaker Sheldon Survivor. He could turn out to be the last pol standing in all New York State. As governor, Eliot Spitzer tried to threaten him but, of course, Spitzer is now gone. As Senate......Tags: Regional Authority, Sheldon Silver, Lawyers, Thomas P. DiNapoli, Republican Party
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Obama vacation reading list: (fore!) Four
The Swampby Mark Silva Everyone takes books to the beach in the summer. And President Barack Obama, who has started a weeklong vacation on Martha's Vineyard -- working out this morning, playing tennis with First Lady Michelle Obama and planning a......Tags: Murder, New York City Police Department, United States, Richard Price, Crime, Law and Justice
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Using images to change history
The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond...Tags: Gordon Parks, Paul Robeson, Muhammad Ali, Baltimore County, Civil Rights
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Joan Curto celebrates the genius of Cole Porter
Cole Porter died nearly half a century ago – in 1964 at age 73 – yet his songs remain as ubiquitous today as they were then. Which helps explain why one of Chicago's top cabaret singers, Joan Curto, this week is launching an evening-length...
Tags: Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Entertainment, Music, Green Mill (club)
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The Fugs still riotous after all these years
The Fugs finally return to Chicago on Saturday at the City Winery after a 44-year absence. The reception for the band is bound to be a bit warmer than it was when the counter-culture pioneers last performed here, on Dec. 28, 1968, at the Aragon Ballroom....
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Greenwich Village, Entertainment, Kim Novak, Music
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Brand names and mass graves
Robert KoehlerCheap clothes! Their cost, it turns out, is beyond calculation. "Babul Mia said he identified his wife Mariam Begum, 25, who was apparently burnt beyond recognition, but he could identify her bangles and her small teeth," reported Bangladesh's main...Tags: Plant Openings, Bangladesh, Consumer Goods Industries, Collective Contract, Career and Workplace
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Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne explores ideas about music and performance
David Byrne's lyrics, especially in his early days with Talking Heads, put even the most mundane human behavior underneath a magnifying glass to reveal all its wonder and strangeness. He was the "anthropologist from Mars," instantly staking out a place...
Tags: Anthropology, Brian Eno, Entertainment, Culture, Patti Smith
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Triangle Fire: A Century Later, Workers Still Need Protection
The Hartford CourantNearly 50 years after the fact, Frank Rubino, a captain at a Lower East Side fire station, remembered the still-smoking bodies. At closing time on March 25, 1911, a fire ripped through the Triangle Waist Factory in Greenwich Village. Within a half-hour,...Tags: Plant Openings, Greenwich Village, Transportation Accidents, Health, Career and Workplace
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