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The Beautiful Life: TBL Filming Locations!
Staff reporterThe Beautiful Life: TBL, Ashton Kutcher's new CW prime time drama starring Mischa Barton (The O.C.), Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) and supermodel Elle MacPherson, among others will be filming today in Astoria, Queens on 36th St. and 35th Ave. On...Tags: Astoria, Ashton Kutcher, Mischa Barton, Elle MacPherson, Drama (genre)
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A cupcake tour of NYC
AP travel editorThis city is crazy for cupcakes. There are cupcake classes and cupcake tours, lines down the block at cupcake bakeries, a cupcake tea at a five-star hotel, and a cupcake truck with 6,000 followers on Twitter. Some date the cupcake craze to a "Sex and the...Tags: California, New York, Manhattan (New York City), Greenwich Village, Television
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NYC Officials Drill For Possible Bioterror Attack
wpix.comNew York City officials are preparing themselves for a possible anthrax attack. The Department of Health conducted a drill Saturday to test the city's readiness to distribute antibiotics and vaccines to large numbers of New Yorkers at any given time....Tags: Tom Brokaw, Health and Safety at School, New York, Preventative Medicine, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Asian Women Targeted in Series of Violent Attacks
KTLA NewsNEW YORK -- Police are investigating five attacks on Asian women as possible hate crimes. Police say the incidents occurred in the past two weeks. In each case, the woman was attacked in or near a public housing project. None were seriously injured. A...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Crime, Law and Justice, KTLA, Assault, Interior Policy
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Where to dine on your nyc family vacation
Where to eat in NYC
Eating out can get awfully expensive in New York City, but there are plenty of smaller eateries that won't cost you an arm or a leg. Keep a lookout for neighborhood delis, cafes and pizzerias.
And don't turn your nose up at all those...Tags: New York, Manhattan (New York City), John Travolta, Greenwich Village, Dog (animal)
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'The Essays of Leonard Michaels' by Leonard Michaels
The Essays of Leonard Michaels
Leonard Michaels
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 206 pp., $26
Until Leonard Michaels was 5 and learned English in school, he spoke only Yiddish in the Lower East Side enclave where his Polish-Jewish parents raised him. And maybe...Tags: Book, Judaism, New York, Bars and Clubs, Philosophy
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Famous Pickle Store Headed to Brooklyn
Even Peter Piper can't stop the proud purveyor from packing up all the pickles, the pickled peppers too. So after nearly 100 years as a Lower East Side staple, it's time to say goodbye to Guss' Pickles.
"The problem is not too many customers," owner...Tags: WPIX, Pickles, Brooklyn (New York City), Borough Park
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NYC Coffee Shop Wages War On Laptop Users
wpix.comA local coffee shop in Brooklyn has brewed up an idea in order to drum up more business: impose time limits on in-house java drinkers who use laptops. Small cafe's, like Naidre's in Park Slope, have been hit especially hard since the recession hit,...Tags: Jackson Heights, New York, Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), Manhattan (New York City), WPIX
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'The Puzzle King: A Novel' by Betsy Carter
![The kernel of Betsy Carter's third novel, "The Puzzle King," is a powerful bit of family lore that takes up no more than a paragraph of her 2002 memoir, "Nothing to Fall Back On": the story of the time, in 1936, that her mother's German-born American aunt, Flora, traveled back to her native country to get dozens of her relatives out. The gift she brought for the American consul was a copy of that year's hottest book in the States, "Gone With the Wind." The gift she brought for her family, Jews trapped in Hitler's Germany, stripped of their rights under the Nuremberg Laws, was her signature on the required affidavits of support, promising to provide for them in America if they should fail to make it on their own.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48824742-24104501.gif "The kernel of Betsy Carter's third novel, "The Puzzle King,\" is a powerful bit of family lore that takes up no more than a paragraph of her 2002 memoir, \"Nothing to Fall Back On\": the story of the time, in 1936, that her mother's German-born American aunt, Flora, traveled back to her native country to get dozens of her relatives out. The gift she brought for the American consul was a copy of that year's hottest book in the States, \"Gone With the Wind.\" The gift she brought for her family, Jews trapped in Hitler's Germany, stripped of their rights under the Nuremberg Laws, was her signature on the required affidavits of support, promising to provide for them in America if they should fail to make it on their own.")
The kernel of Betsy Carter's third novel, "The Puzzle King," is a powerful bit of family lore that takes up no more than a paragraph of her 2002 memoir, "Nothing to Fall Back On": the story of the time, in 1936, that her mother's German-born American...Tags: Judaism, New York, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, World War II (1939-1945)
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Cops: Suspect In Midtown Stabbing ID'd As Ex-U.S. Soldier
Staff reporterAuthorities have identified the suspect wanted in connection with the stabbing death of a young man outside the James Farley Post Office in Midtown Sunday afternoon, after a New York City police officer recognized him from their days in the Army Reserves,...Tags: New York, U.S. Army, Crimes, Death, Health
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BB Gun Sniper Terrorizing Lower East Side
wpix.comPolice are on the hunt for a BB-gun sniper who is terrorizing a block on the Lower East Side. According to New York City police, so far, eight people have been shot at and several car windows have been blown out. The shootings are taking place on the...Tags: Raymond W. Kelly, New York City Police Department, New York, Career and Workplace, New York City
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Lester Glassner dies at 70; Collector of pop-culture and dime-store merchandise
When Lester Glassner died of pancreatic cancer Aug. 9 in hospice care at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City at age 70, he left behind a major part of his life that he had spent nearly 50 years accumulating.
The one-time picture editor,...Tags: Halloween, Book, New York, Minority Groups, Manhattan (New York City)
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