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August 24, 2007

Grace Paley, New York's official state author from 1986-88, died at the age of 84 yesterday. She had been battling breast cancer for quite some time. The author, born in the Bronx on December 11th, 1922, still kept an apartment in Manhattan -- but was at her home in Vermont at the time of death. The NY Times recaps her life in literature:Ms. Paley’s output was modest, about four-dozen stories in three volumes: “The Little......

Continue Reading "Author-Activist Grace Paley Dies at 84"

July 29, 2004

Gothamist is intrigued to hear that Brooklyn's in da house, not once, but twice in the upcoming Broadway season.    First, Brooklyn begins previews in September at the Plymouth Theatre in a show that has been described as "a musical about the journey of a Parisian songstress" which jumps between our mighty borough and the city of light.  Eden Espinoza (Wicked) and hottie Kevin Anderson (Sunset Boulevard, Death of a Salesman) star,  and Jeff Calhoun (Big River) directs. The show was first produced......

Continue Reading "Left on Flatbush, Right on the Great White Way"

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