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East side bistro offers traditional Thanksgiving dinner for $29.95

The charming French bistro Sel & Poivre is offering traditional Thanksgiving dinner, with all the fixings, for $29.95.  The restaurant is well-known known on the East Side for serving affordable food in an atmosphere that will transport you to Paris and make you forget you are four blocks from Bloomingdale’s.  Sel & Poivre also offers [...]

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Stocking stuffer gifts $5 and under from New York Magazine

It’s easy to spend more than you intended to on holiday gifts.  That’s why the New York Magazine list of gift ideas is so great.  You can sort the list by price, or type of gift.  There’s a list of several dozen cute and usuable stocking stuffers for $5 or less – things like luggage [...]

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Travel the Silk Road without a camel or passport

The newest exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History let’s you travel one of history’s most important highways.  The exhibit, “Traveling the Silk Road”, showcases the products, technologies, cultures and religions that populated this trading route, how ideas and goods were shared, and how that truly changed the ancient world.   It is open now, through April [...]

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World Series of Beer Pong with radio's Shade 45 and DJ Whoo Kid!

The World Series of Beer Pong is being held in Las Vegas in January.  But this Saturday, November 21, you can play against some of the world’s best gemers in a World Series of Beer Pong  Satellite Tournament, followed by an after the pong party.  You have to sign up your team for the [...]

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New, affordable budget hotel in Times Square

Houseguests are great, but sometimes it’s better that your friends or loved ones stay elsewhere.  The newest hotel in the Big Appple is also one of the most affordable, and it’s smack in the middle of the Times Square.  The Hotel at Times Square   is all fresh and shiny and new from a multi-million dollar renovation [...]

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College fair for military veterans and their families

All active duty, reservists, veterans, dependents and survivors are invited to a special CUNY college fair on Monday, November 23.  There will be panels and discussions on the admission process, and aid programs from the Veterans Adminsitration and New York State. 

The CUNY College Fair for Veterans is being held from 3 p.m. to [...]

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Up to 60% off at Lord & Taylor pre-holiday sale

Today through Sunday, Nov. 22nd, Lord & Taylor is discounting items up to 60% off, including winter coats.  Stock up on shoes and boots — buy one, get the second one 50% off.  one free.  Men’s outerwear, including coats, also are 50% off.  Shop online, using the promo code BIG.  Access and print out the [...]

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Free lecture by environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Environmmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., speaks on Our Environmental Future at Town Hall on Tuesday, November 17, at 8 p.m.  The lecture is free, but reservations are required, and you can do that online. 

Kennedy is Senior Attorney of the National Resources Defense Council, Time magazine “Hero for the Planet”, and best-selling author of Crimes [...]

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Newest Apple store opens by Lincoln Center

Newest Apple Store, 67th and Broadway, Manhattan

The Big Apple’s newest Apple store  is now open for business, at 67th and Broadway, across the street from Lincoln Center.  The Upper West Side location is open daily, seven days a week, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Telephone number is (212) 209-3400.  This the fourth Apple store [...]

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Radio Shack offers discount coupons

It isn’t even Black Friday yet and the holiday discount sales are already starting.  Radio Shack is offering coupons worth $25 off on-line shopping, for qualifying purchases of $100 or more.  Items that do not qualify for the discount include computers, gaming hardware and software, digital cameras and camcorders, MP3 players, and wireless phones.  [...]

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Master your career

The New School is hosting an Grad School Expo and Open House on Saturday, November 14, 2009, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Admission is free, and you’ll have a chance to chat with professors, guidance counselors and students from various schools within the New School to answer your questions about graduate programs offered at [...]

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CVS fined for sellilng out-dated food, drugs

Expiration dates are printed on foods, baby fomula, and medicines for a good reason.  And you should check them when you are shopping to be sure you are buying safe and healthy items for yourself and your family.

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has fined CVS $875,000 for selling expired food, medicine and baby [...]

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