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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Jazz guitarist and New Orleans native {{Davy Mooney = 14849}} relocated to New York in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After one of his periodic return visits over a year later, I asked him to assess the state of the recovery of the music community. "When I go down to Frenchman Street, it's still a great 'hang.' I know everybody on a first name basis," he said. "It's always like...
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No Impact Man (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
I'm so sad to say that I woke up this morning to find that my faithful old green rickshaw had been stolen from outside our apartment building. This was the rickshaw built for me nearly three years ago by the amazing New York bike genius George Bliss. Because it was during the No Impact Man year, I could buy nothing new, so George built my rickshaw--the No Impact SUV--from entirely second-hand...
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Yahoo Movie, Yahoo Showtimes, Yahoo (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
First off, congratulations to the New York Yankees for their 7-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. This marks the 27th World Series Championship for the NY Yankees, with this one of course being the first to be won in the Home That George Built.
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Baseball Prospectus (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Yankees christen the House that George Built the only way they know how.
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Political Wrinkles (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
---Quote--- NEW YORK – The ghosts may have been abandoned across the street, where the House that Ruth Built is awaiting the imminent arrival of the...
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Sliding Into Home (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The first is that the Yankees will be opening Yankee Stadium tonight for fans to watch game 4 of the World Series in The House That George Built. Gates 4 and 6 will open at 6:00 p.m. and you can either watch on the big screen in center or the screens in the Great Hall. Food and concession stands will be open as well. Second, got this in my inbox and wanted to let you guys know that there...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
DENNIS McGOOGAN says he can still recall as a baby sitting in a high chair watching his father, George, build the boat on the kitchen table in the evenings at his home in Balmain.
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The Last Psychiatrist (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The House that George built....
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A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... life-of-the-party image, Porter’s last years were spent in reclusion. In The House That George Built, his history of American popular song, Wilfred Sheed memorably summarized the composer’s post-amputation period: “Most of the time the host just mutely stares at his dinner guests, of which he never invites more than two at a time. Any bright conversation has to come...
