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Does This Musical Need Kickstarter?

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.16.2013 | Arts
Read More: American Psycho Play, American Psycho Musical, Psycho Musical, Bret Easton Ellis, Duncan Sheik Kickstarter, American Psycho Kickstarter, Yuppies, Duncan Sheik, Duncan-Sheik-American-Psycho, Musicals, American Psycho, London Musicals, Arts News

NEW YORK — Duncan Sheik is part of an unusual campaign on Kickstarter: Not to get his musical "American Psycho" up and running. It's to make it ...

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'American Psycho' Becomes A Musical

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.22.2013 | Arts
Read More: American Psycho Play, American Psycho Musical, Psycho Musical, Yuppies, Duncan Sheik, Duncan-Sheik-American-Psycho, Musicals, American Psycho, London Musicals, Arts News

NEW YORK -- A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel "American Psycho" will first try to slay an audience in London. The Headlong theater company...

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Dive Bar Wants To 'Secede' From Park Slope

DNAinfo | Posted 11.21.2012 | New York
Read More: Bar Wants to Secede, Park Slope, New York Restaurants, Yuppies, Jackie's 5th Amendment Bar, Park Slope Bar, NY Restaurants, Park Slope Gentrification, Dive Bar, Gentrification, New York News

PARK SLOPE — A longtime local watering hole says it wants to quit Park Slope cold turkey. A bartender at Jackie's Fifth Amendment has started an ...

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Chicago's Lush Wine And Spirits: Paradise for Gourmet Lovers

Serena Dai | Posted 03.12.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Hipster-Yuppies, Cured Meats, Lush Wine and Spirits, Chicago, Restaurants, Yuppies, Cheese, Best Of, Hipsters, Byob, Chicago Restaurants, Restaurant Reviews, My Chicago, Chicago News
Serena Dai

When hipster-yuppies dare to dream, they dream of Lush. At Lush, you buy from the store's collection of beer and wine. Then, you drink the bottles in leather armchairs and order one of the spot's many cheeses, cured meats, or sandwiches.

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Is Gentrification Always Bad?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 12.04.2011 | Latino Voices
Read More: Latinos, Pupuseria, Latino, Brooklyn, Hispanic, East WillyB, Mexico, Bushwick, Hispanics, Los Angeles, New York City, Urban Blight, Julia Ahumada Grob, Yuppies, Gentrify, Barrio, Real Estate Gentrification, Gentrification, Cultura, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News
Daniel Cubias

Achieving that balance between community improvement and neighborhood assassination is, to say the least, a difficult balancing act. Some say that it cannot be done.

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It's Hard Out Here for a Hippie: The Paradox of Venice Beach

Laurenne Sala | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Materialism, Homelessness, Self-Awareness, Venice, Yuppies, Boardwalk, Hippies, Hipsters, Los Angeles, Dichotomous Thinking, Venice Beach, Abbott Kinney, Post-Travel, Backpacking, Los Angeles News
Laurenne Sala

It's strange, this paradox of lifestyles. But I love it. Because I'm neither nor. I'm going to ride my 400-dollar bike to the free yoga and meditate the day away with the drum circle crowd and a two-headed turtle.

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How Dare She? How Irresponsible...

Alan Miller | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Nadya Suleman, California Octuplets, Octuplets, Yuppies, Women's Rights, Bobos, Healthy Living News
Alan Miller

The principle of choice and decision making that each woman should have should not play second fiddle to a discussion about overpopulation and humanity's carbon footprint.

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Yuppie Survivalists: The New Apocalyptic Trend

men.style.com/details | Kayleen Schaefer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Yuppies, Survival Tips, Survivalist, Apocalypse, Personal Health, Style News

Dressed in a navy-and-white-striped polo, fitted khaki shorts, and a hefty silver watch, Mike, 37, blends in with his neighbors as they return to the ...

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First Time Novelist Breaks All Rules with a Winner

Cynthia Kling | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: How Far Is the Ocean From Here, Virginia Woolf, Writer Interview, Workshop, Book Deal, Amy Shearn, Writing, Fiction, How to Write, Authors, Writing Class, Surrogate Mother, James Joyce, Random House, Writer Interviews, Literary Agent, Susannah Prue, Yuppies, Proust, Book, Contemporary Fiction, PJ Mark, Surrogate, Media News
Cynthia Kling

"How Far is the Ocean from Here," by Amy Shearn has to be the weirdest, funniest saddest road novel I've ever read. A single 20-something agrees to surrogate for a pair of cozy yuppies.

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