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Walter’s World: Parson Dance at the Joyce

Posted on January 14, 2013 by | Leave a comment

By Walter Rutledge

Dusk to Dawn- dancer, Steven Vaughn by Andrew Propp

Parsons Dance returns to The Joyce Theater January 15 to 27 with a program that includes two première works. Continue reading →

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Diddy Does The 11th Annual Art Basil Show

Posted on December 14, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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NY Miami Social Dairy reports that Harlem music man (and art collector) Sean “P. Diddy” Combs was doing the VIP thing this week at the Larry Gagosian exhibit at Art Basel in Miami, Florida.

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HW Pick: “The Guy From Harlem,” 1977 (video)

Posted on October 5, 2012 by | Leave a comment

 

The Guy from Harlem is a blaxploitation film from 1977 about a temperamental yet ultimately quite sensitive gangster Harry De Bauld, a character you will grow to love, in this really, really funny movie directed by Rene Martinez Jr. (who is infamous for directing The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger in 1978 … Continue reading →

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Guns From America Fuel Jamaica’s Gang Wars

Posted on June 22, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Crime

Jamaica Gun Smuggling

“Eighty percent of the weapons seized in the Caribbean island are traced back to the United States…”

Ships from Miami steam into Jamaica‘s main harbor loaded with TV sets and blue jeans. But some of the most popular U.S. imports never appear on the manifests: handguns, rifles and bullets that stoke one of the world’s highest murder rates.

The volume is much less than the flow of U.S. guns into Mexico that end up in the hands of drug cartels — Jamaican authorities recover fewer than 1,000 firearms a year. But of those whose origin can be traced, 80 percent come from the U.S., Jamaican law enforcement officials have said in interviews with The Associated Press.

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Jets Fire Coach Mangini

Posted on December 31, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Sports

The New York Jets dismissed Eric Mangini as head coach on Monday, just one day after the football team watched its postseason hopes evaporate in Miami.

The New York Jets fired Head Coach Eric Mangini on Monday, a day after a team that harbored Super Bowl hopes with five games left failed to make the playoffs.

The Jets started the season 8-3 under quarterback Brett Favre, beating New England and Tennessee on the road in consecutive weeks and raising visions among their fans of a Super Bowl trip.

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