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Blog Entries by David Finkle from 09/2009

Come to the Cabaret MetroStar Talent Challenge: Meet Sizzling Runners-Up Grabianowski, Bufford

| Posted 09.01.2009 | New York
Read More: Cabaret, Danielle Grabianowski, Entertainment, The Metropolitan Room, Carole Bufford, Steve Mazzilli, MetroStar Talent Challenge, Anne Steele, Chris Mazzilli, Liz Lark Brown, New York News

Cabaret has fallen on hard times. These days fewer clubs across the country support intimate rooms where singers can ply their wares for eager and appreciative audiences.

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Chanteuse KT Sullivan Introduces Site-Specific Cabaret

| Posted 09.09.2009 | New York
Read More: Diamond Jim Brady, Cabaret, Lillian Russell, City Hall Restaurant, Duane Street, Popular Songs, Turn-of-the-Century Lower Manhattan, KT Sullivan, Entertainment, New York News

Because Sullivan isn't singing on mic, she has no qualms about stepping away from the stage and sashaying through the audience while exploring genres from opera to traditional Irish tear-jerkers to pop.

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Coping With Book Guilt in London

| Posted 09.12.2009 | Books
Read More: Jonathan Wild, The Vicar of Wakefield, Henry Pordes Books, Curzon Street, Book Collecting, Phineas Redux, Oxfam, Henry Fielding, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Mann, Charing Cross Road, C. P. Snow, The Magic Mountain, G. Heywood Hill, Phineas Finn, The Black Album, London Bookstores, Book Guilt, Hanif Kureishi, The New Men, Oliver Goldsmith, Books News

I love books, but they foment torrents of guilt in me. I feel guilty about: the amount of money spent on them; the space they take up; the ones that rest unread while more come in as competition.

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Religion in the United States and England, as Influential English Rabbi Sacks Claims to See It

| Posted 09.26.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: United Synagogue, English Jewry, Religion, Rosh Hashanah 5770, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Religion in Great Britain, BBC One, Religion in the United States, Yom Kippur 5770, Healthy Living News

In Rabbi Sacks's estimation, much of what he sees in the United States as religious practice is far superior to what's happening in England.

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