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Statue of Liberty Beheaded

A replica Statue of Liberty stolen from a Brooklyn coffee shop reportedly turned up in a video that showed it blindfolded,... more

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The Last Phone Booths of Manhattan

Only four full-fledged outdoor phone booths exist in Manhattan today it seems. We're talking Superman Approved™ phone... more

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Confident,insightful, passionate, effective. The same words that describe Feuer aptly apply to MindSmack

If the true measure of a successful entrepreneur is not what he does during economic boom times, but during troubled ones, then... more

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Stromg Storms Hit NYC Area

Authorities say heavy thunderstorms and hail have downed trees and utility poles and caused flooding.

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Old Yankee Stadium Netted

As part of the deconstruction of the old Yankee Stadium, protective netting is being placed around the "House that Ruth... more

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Composer Records Sounds in Central Park: Now Plays Inside a Tunnel

John Morton has spent the year recording sounds throughout all of Central Park; including conversations on benches, gospel choirs,... more

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City Rainfall in the Sunset

This is an incredible scene, it's really something very different from what I had expected to see. If you just think of... more

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Lit A Candle Before Michael Jackson Funeral Time

Lit A Candle Before Michael Jackson Funeral Time... http://www.hothollywoodcelebrities.com is the site where many people has... more

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Milena Govich - 1/12/2009

Photographs of actress Milena Govich at an after-party for a screening of the film "Defiance" in New York, NY on January... more

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Michael Jackson Tribute on West 3rd Street / 6.25.09

Title: Michael Jackson Tribute on West 3rd Street / June 25, 2009 / Filmed and Edited by Noisemaker Media / Right place at the... more

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Trattoria in Classical Blue Neon Over Vintage Fading Beige Pastels

To me, this is a gorgeous scene...the picture evokes so many thoughts. First, I have to say that with all of the noisy commotion... more

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A Moving Skyscraper for N.Y.?

Each of the floors of the Dynamic Tower rotates independently, giving the building different shapes throughout the day. (Dynamic... more

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Bravo and Sarah Jessica Parker launching art-themed reality series

"It was only a matter of time for art to jump on TV's reality bandwagon. A cable series focusing on the contemporary art... more

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A-Rod Leads Yanks to 7th Straight Win

Alex Rodriguez hit a tiebreaking homer, Andy Pettitte pitched seven strong innings and the New York Yankees beat the Seattle... more

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Donmar Warehouse’s ‘Hamlet’ Coming to Broadway With Jude Law

"That collective “oooh” you just heard from Broadway is the sound of theatergoers whose solid (or sullied) flesh... more

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Acting Schools Go Head to Head in LA

"Stella Adler, the high priestess of the American theater, was known for her boundless generosity toward young actors. At the... more

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"This has been something of a banner year for female directors in New York, a development that wouldn’t be worth noting if it weren’t so rare. In July alone three new Off Broadway shows directed by women (including Ms. Ivey) are beginning previews. On Broadway eight shows last season — a record — had a woman in charge, with most of them garnering outsize praise for their work. “Hair,” directed by Diane Paulus, won the Tony for best musical revival this month, for example, while Phyllida Lloyd is one of the few directors — male or female — to have two shows running simultaneously (“Mamma Mia!,” which has raked in a fortune over the last eight years, and the new entrant, “Mary Stuart,” which earned Ms. Lloyd a Tony nomination).

“It’s getting better and better,” said Ms. Ivey, 57, during a break between rehearsals. The fourth-floor studio is air-conditioned to ice-cream store temperatures, so she wears a lime-green scarf wrapped around her neck. On her feet are colorful tapestry slippers. How often, she asked, do middle-aged women without an Olympic-type record get a crack at directing a show? “I feel that’s what Second Stage is doing for me,” Ms. Ivey said. She has directed a few plays in recent years but no musicals before this new version of Jack Heifner’s 1976 show. “They are giving me a chance.”

That chance, however, is something that does not come as easily or as frequently for female directors as it does for their male counterparts, many people in the theater contend.

Leigh Silverman, 35, who directed “Well” on Broadway in 2006 and the musical version of Neil Gaiman’s children’s tale “Coraline,” which is running Off Broadway, is optimistic about the uptick in directing jobs for women. “I think it is really exciting,” she said. “There were multiple women nominated for Tonys this year. In the short range it’s incredibly encouraging.” Still, she maintains: “It’s not a level playing field. There is no parity.”

Pretty much everyone in the business is quick to acknowledge that with so much money at stake, it’s understandable that producers want to work with people they know, and with people who have already had box-office success. Such established directors are generally men.

“It’s a self-perpetuating circle,” Ms. Paulus, 42, said after slipping into a recent matinee of “Hair.” “That’s why I’m so grateful to Oskar Eustis,” the artistic director of the nonprofit Public Theater, who hired her to direct the initial production that ran in Central Park last summer. “He has opened the Public up to the next generation of artists. He said, ‘Who are the young directors, the up-and-coming directors I need to meet?’"""This has been something of a banner year for female directors in New York, a development that wouldn’t be worth noting... more

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'Avenue Q' Reaches End of the Road

"Broadway tuner "Avenue Q" will shutter in the fall after a run of six years.

Comedy, in which a cast of humans and puppets play twentysomethings struggling to find their way in New York City, was one of the first of a new generation of small-scale offerings that carved out a stable foothold on a Rialto landscape more often associated with splashier fare.

Broadway production has grossed almost $120 million so far, and, according to reps for the show, returned $23.5 million to its investors.

The last several months of its Main Stem run have seen sales diminish, with weekly box office sometimes dipping below the $200,000 mark. Both the production's low running costs and its berth at one of Broadway's smaller venues, the John Golden Theater, helped extend its longevity.

The show became the epitome of an underdog legit success when the musical beat out big-budget competitor "Wicked" for the top tuner Tony in 2004.

Also picking up trophies for score (for composer-lyricists Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx) and book (for Jeff Whitty), "Avenue Q" was notable as well for a tongue-in-cheek, unusually aggressive awards campaign seemingly modeled after the high-profile pushes of Oscar contenders. (A year later, the administrators of the Tony Awards issued regulations limiting such campaigns.)

The show went on to stir up controversy just after the Tonys, when a seemingly imminent road incarnation was nixed in favor of a short-lived 2005 stint in Vegas. (A tour eventually went out, recently wrapping up two years on the road.)

In Gotham, the tuner became one of the more successful Broadway transfers of a show that originated at an Off Broadway nonprofit. "Avenue Q" preemed in a co-production by the Vineyard Theater and the New Group, playing at the Vineyard in Spring 2003. The show opened at the Golden that July.

Similarly quirky or edgy musicals from Gotham nonprofits -- including "Spring Awakening" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"-- have subsequently gone on to successful Rialto runs, although none have outlasted "Avenue Q."""Broadway tuner "Avenue Q" will shutter in the fall after a run of six years. Comedy, in which a cast of humans... more