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First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room

David Finkle | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Tony Bennett, Caroline Leigh, Billie Holiday, Barbara Carroll, Joe Bushkin, Worcester, Bobby Short, Massachusetts, Leonard Bernstein, Leo Robin, Stephen Sondheim, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Ralph Burns, Dorothy Parker, Jay Leonhart, The Downbeat, Billy Strayhorn, Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Rodgers, Woody Herman, Vernon Duke, George Gershwin, The Embers, Road Show, Entertainment News
David Finkle

In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wise enough to turn the paneled room over to her every Sunday brunch.

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Stage Door: Driving Miss Daisy and The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Entertainment, Billy Strayhorn, James Earl Jones, Music, Alfred Uhry, Vanesa Redgrave, Jazz, Theater, Broadway, Off-Broadway, New York News
Fern Siegel

A minimalist meditation on race relations and unlikely friendships, playwright Alfred Uhry transformed childhood memories into a global success.

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, James Baldwin, Alain-Leroy-Locke, Carol Brice, Kenneth Mcpherson, Homo Harlem Film Series, The Motion of Light in Water, State Senator Bill Perkins, Henry Van Dyke, Wesley Tann, Nora Holt, Earle Hyman, Jimmy Daniels, Museum of the City of New York, Richard Bruce Nugent, Bricktop, Willard Winter, Gerrie Major, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Walter Nicks, Langston Hughes, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Oaks Bluff, Paul Meers, David Willson, Althea Gibson, Edward Perry, Adelaide Hall, Countee Cullen, Inter State Tattler, Philip Johnson, Dr. Godfrey Nurse, Duncan Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Nella Larsen, Times Square, Tallulah Bankhead, Sex in the City, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Dorothy West, Johnathan Brice, J. Fredrick Lohman, Elsa Maxwell, Billy Strayhorn, Wallace Thurman, Charles Leslie, Truman Capote, Tom of Findland, Archie Savage, Marlon Brando, New York Amsterdam News, Carl Van Vechten, Maysles Cinema, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha's Vineyard, Jimmy Donahue, Clifton-Webb, Agustus Granville Dill, Monty Wooley, Cole Porter, Cary Grant, Joey Coleman, William Waefieldgeorge Platt Lynes, John Leapheart, Christopher Isherwood, Impact News
Michael Henry Adams

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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Black Elegance!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norma Jean Darden, Jill Nelson, Al Sharpton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Pitsburgh Courier, Valerie Jo Bradley, Sherry Bronfman, Evelyn Elizabeth Long Cunningham, Mayor David Dinkens, Willie the Lion Smith, State Senator Bill Perkins, Mercedes Ellington, Lou Willard, Fidel Castro, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Jonathan Capehart, Adurey Smaltz, Winthrop Rockefeller, Vertner Tandy, Dick Parsons, Todd Roulette, Robin Bell Stevens, New York Times, Malcolm X, Nelson Rockefeller, St. Philip's Episcopal Church, E. Stennett, Maya Angelou, Lana Turner, Mollie Moon, Joan Sandler, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Naturally, as the city's oldest, most fashionable African American congregation for two centuries, Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was bound to be 94 year old Mrs. Cunningham's parish.

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Homo-Harlem Moves Downtown: How Malcolm Harris Hung Up on Angelina Jolie, Twice!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Homo-Harlem, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Soho, Storme DeLarverie, Ivanka Trump, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell, New York, New York City, Malcolm Harris, Designers for Dafur, Kim Cattrall, Billy Strayhorn, Marvin Smith, Andre Leon Talley, Fashion, Bayard Rustin, K. Tyson Perez, Dred, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Initially saddened that my glamorous friends had moved from uptown, I now realize that it's not so by Sarah Grossman much that K. Tyson Pere...

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Happy 110th, Duke!

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Maurice Hines, Apollo Theater, Pearl Bailey, Billy Strayhorn, Louis Bellson, Duke Ellington, Arena Stage, A Train, Paul Mercer Ellington, Mercedes Ellington, Entertainment News
Jane Levere

To celebrate the 110th birthday of Duke Ellington last week, his namesake orchestra played in a subway station in Harlem and, even more appropriately, on a 1930's-vintage, green A train.

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