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Obama Ate With Harvey in the West Village... But His Fate Was Sealed on the Bowery

Susan M. Kirschbaum | Posted 10.12.2011 | New York
Read More: Soothsayer, Harvey Weinstein, Dr. Carmen Harra, Metaphysical, Obama Fundraising, Bowery Poetry Club, Anna Wintour, Barack Obama, Peri Lyons, Kate Sekules, New York News
Susan M. Kirschbaum

Just as Obama was being feted Thursday night at Harvey Weinstein's West Village pad, at the Bowery Poetry Club a recognized psychic healer was telling the crowd, "I feel sorry for him. He won't be elected to another term."

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Festival Of Ideas Kicks Off In NYC

Marina Cashdan | Posted 07.03.2011 | Arts
Read More: Cooper Union, Rem Koolhaas, Columbia University, Nyu, The New Museum, David Byrne, Bowery, The Reconfigured City, The Networked City, New York, Bowery Poetry Club, Murals, Street Art, Festival of Ideas, The Sustainable City, The Festival of Ideas for the New City, After Hours Murals on the Bowery, Museums, Streetfest, Marilyn Minter, Picnics, New Museum, Vito Acconci, Arts News
Marina Cashdan

This week a major cultural initiative will be launched, The Festival of Ideas for the New City, coordinated by the New Museum and scores of cultura...

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Inspiring TED Talk

Posted 06.10.2011 | Arts
Read More: Video, TED Talks, Hiroshima, TED Talk, Voice, Performance Art, Spoken Word Poetry, New York City Art, Bowery Poetry Club, Project Voice, Sarah Kay, Poetry, Radiation, New York, Arts News

After receiving a standing ovation for her poems 'If I Should Have a Daughter' and 'Hiroshima,' 22-year-old spoken word poet Sarah Kay went on to give...

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WATCH: Finding The Bowery's Rock & Roll Roots

GloboMaestro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Cbgb, John Varvatos, The Bowery Hotel, East Village, Travel, Morrison Hotel Gallery, Concierge, The Bowery, Travel News, Music, Bowery Poetry Club, Rock and Roll, Poetry, Video, Travel News
GloboMaestro

CBGB was once the center of New York's punk-rock scene on the Bowery. But do you know about the club's latest incarnation? City insider, Laura Cooper...

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A Diva From Timbuktu

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Khaira Arby, Banning Ayre, Bowery Poetry Club, Afropop Worldwide, Haira Arby, Clermont Records, Timbuktu Tarab, The Festival in the Desert: The Tent Sessons, Takamba, Arts News
Michal Shapiro

When I first experience Khaira Arby, I immediately recognized a formidable voice: piercing, flexible and joyous.

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We're Giving Our Money Away

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Blaise Pascal, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Luciano Martinengo, Orwell?S 1984, Astor Place, Europa 51, Astro Place, Kubrick?S 2001, Ingrid Bergman, Silvana Mangano, The Rise of Louis XIV, I Am Astro Place, Catholic Church, The Age of the Medici, Descartes, Bob Holman, The Flowers of Saint Francis, One Class, Communist Party, Governors Island, Ivo Van Hove, Roberto Rossellini, Turner Classic Movies, Italy 76, Bowery Poetry Club, Lincoln Center Festival, Steve Katz, Jacket Magazine, Teorema, Arts News
Norman MacAfee

Europa '51 is very rare, not available on DVD, but this Friday, August 6, at 6 p.m. EDT, Turner Classic Movies will run it. I urge you to see it.

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Literary Death Match

Huff Post Citizen Reporter | William Winner | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Paulina Porizkova, Bowery Poetry Club, Spoken Word, Literary Death Match, Fiction Contest, New York News

Last night the Bowery Poetry Club hosted an event far from your typical bookstore reading. Dominatrixes, drugs, cowboys, bongos, and pinatas were on t...

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NYC Assignment Desk: Literary Death Match, Disco Cruise, Moby Awards

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Cruise, Melville House, Book Covers, Moby Awards, Vinyl, Disco, New York Harbor, Sam Lewitt, New York, Publishing, Mike Topp, Wythe Marschall, Literary Death Match, Mike Edison, Drawing, Melissa Febos, Good Peoples Disco Cruise, The Drawing Center, Bowery Poetry Club, New York News

Huffington Post continues its local coverage with the help our Citizen Journalism Unit. To join the local reporting team and receive advance assignmen...

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How Do You Like Your Poetry?

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Mike Myers, Iphone, Brittany Murphy, Twitter, Dante, Books, Beats, Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Amber Tamblyn, Kindle, Poetry Readings, Bowery Poetry Club, Books News
Travis Nichols

Do you like books? The covers, pages, signatures, glue-ings, and sew-ings that have been around from Dante's time to Dickinson's? Or do you like readings?

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Last Night at Nikos

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: LOOT: Lies of the Times, Dana Gioia, ?€ ?€œLife During the Coup, Semiotext(e), Greenwich Village, Union Square, Tom Disch, ?€ ?€œthe Coming of Fascism to America, The Fall, Nikos Magazine and Smoke Shop, Bob Holman, One Class, The School of Athens, G.H.W. Bush, Greece, Dustin Hoffman, Weather Underground, ?€œBartleby the Scrivener?, Madonna, Susan Sontag, Gulf War, Green Market, Judith Malina, ?€ Herman Melville, New York Times, ?€œI Am Astro Place, Bowery Poetry Club, Jefferson Market Library Garden, Tarsem, Chomskometer, Raphael, ?€œPolysexuality?, Healthy Living News
Norman MacAfee

"I Am Astro Place" I wrote in the 1980s as a screenplay, "Astro Place," about some cultural and political people living near Astor Place in the East Village in the fraught years 1984 to 2001.

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