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Get smart: One Day University with top college professors on Oct. 16

Here’s how to save $45,000 in college tuition — attend the One Day University on Sunday, October 16, 2011,  and learn from top professors from top colleges and universities including Cornell, Harvard, UCLA and Columbia.  Subjects include history, art, philosophy, and include such timely and thought-provoking topics as what has changed in the Middle [...]

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Expo for new parents, expectant couples

Everything for baby — and the grown-ups who love and take care of them — at the New Parents Expo, October 15 and 16, at Pier 92.  There are acres of top brands and products for babies and toddlers, maternity clothing, lectures on subjects from breast-feeding to toilet-triaining, and more, including a stroller test [...]

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Get smart: One Day University with top college professors on Oct. 16

Here’s how to save $45,000 in college tuition — attend the One Day University on Sunday, October 16, 2011,  and learn from top professors from top colleges and universities including Cornell, Harvard, UCLA and Columbia.  Subjects include history, art, philosophy, and include such timely and thought-provoking topics as what has changed in the Middle [...]

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Meet actor John Lithgow FREE at Apple Store UWS tonight

John Lithgow is one of the most talented and versatile actors on the planet.  Now, he’s also an author, and he’s combining both in a special FREE appearance at the Lincoln Center Apple Store, on Monday, Sept. 29th.  He’ll be talking about his biography, which includes stories about his collaborations with theater and film [...]

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Meet John Leguizamo free at Apple Store Soho on Monday

John Leguizamo is a dynamo — a comedian and dramatic actor whose smash–hit one–man shows have been acclaimed by critics and fans alike. He’s appearing free at the Apple Store Soho to promote the new paperback edition that compiles his four one-man shows into one volume that will have you laughing out loud.  Mambo Mouth [...]

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9/11 Anniversary free events: NYPL lectures on how it changed us forever

World Trade Center before 9/11

The New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan branch is focusing on 9/11 throughout the month of September, with a series of free lectures by authors and other experts on how the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center affected and changed us all, and how it changed the city.  [...]

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9/11 anniversary event: free lecture on role of WTC photos, video

World Trade Center, not Ground Zero

The images of the destruction of the World Trade Center are seared into our collective memory.   What’s the story of the people in those mages, and the photographers and videographers who took them?  David Friend was Life Magazine’s director of photography, and the author of the photo [...]

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Moby gives talk,performs songs from new CD Destroyed at Barnes & Noble

Moby

Moby is one of a handful of performers famous enough to go by just one name.  Moby is one of them.  Moby fans can see him live, FREE, at Barnes & Noble, chatting about Destroyed, his new book of photos about life on the road, and hear him perform cuts from his [...]

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Tomorrow: meet actor Jesse Eisenberg at the Apple Store in Soho

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Meet actor Jesse Eisenberg, star “30 Minutes or Less”, discussing the new comedy/adventure movie that’s sure to be a hit the minute it opens, at the Apple Store Soho on Friday,  August 12th, the same day the movie opens in theaters.  His FREE appearance is at 8 p.m., but [...]

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Thanks to all who attended my lecture at the NYPL

It was a full house last night at the NYPL Mid-Manhattan branch for my FREE talk on Peaceful Places in NYC, the title of my most recent travel guidebook.  Everybody had a great time, especially me, because I love to share good news about my home town.  Lots of you asked great questions about [...]

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Meet me tonight at NYPL Mid-Manhattan branch: free program on quiet, peaceful places in NYC

Meet me at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library.  I’m giving a FREE lecture on tranquil, peaceful places in NYC — secret gardens, picture postcard vistas, quiet sanctuaries in busy places, hiking trails you can get to by subway, which days of the week and times of [...]

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Escape to quiet, tranquil, peaceful places in NYC

Peaceful Places in NYC, by Evelyn Kanter

After the sensory overload of Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks and concert, the idea of quiet, tranquil, peaceful places in NYC is a good one.  And there are many.  I found more than one hundred sanctuaries researching and writing my NYC guidebook, Peaceful Places in NYC [...]

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