Traditional Chinese Religion in America: Street Prophets Saturday

... came to the United States they brought their religion with them. In Butte, one of the important institutions in Chinatown was the local temple, sometimes called the "joss house." Shown above is a drawing of Kuan Ti, the God of War. This was a ...

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The Lee Family in America

The Museum of Chinese in America , located in New York City's Chinatown, is holding a unique exhibit of the distinguished Lee family, and chronicles the family's experiences in America over a period from the late 1860s to the present. The first of the Lees to come to the United States was Lee Ling, who came from the Sun Ning District of Taishan in Guangdong Province of China.

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Wnyc's Leonard Lopate to Host Joy to the Pearl Benefit Performance Next Month

On Sunday, December 7, The Pearl Theatre Company will present a one night only benefit performance of holiday readings, radio plays, and music hosted by WNYC's Leonard Lopate at the theatre company's home on 42nd Street. The special event will include selections of stories from Charles Dickens , Mark Twain , O. Henry , and many more performed by Members of The Pearl's Resident Acting Company including Dominic Cuskern , Jolly Abraham , Dan Daily , Chris Mixon , Carol Schultz and Brad Heberlee .

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Leonard Quart: Good and bad of construction boom

NEW YORK >> Recently I have thought a great deal about time's passage, and how age slowly diminishes energy and physical capacities. I have also wondered what sort of life I'll be leading in the coming years.

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Ferguson protesters across US peaceful, disruptive

A protestor uses a lighter and an aerosol can to burn one of two American flags during a protest in the Chinatown area of Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. A grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday, Nov. 24th, 2014, declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American man.

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Ferguson protesters across US peaceful, disruptive

A protestor uses a lighter and an aerosol can to burn one of two American flags during a protest in the Chinatown area of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. People protesting the Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury decision took to the streets in cities across the U.S. for a second day Tuesday, showing that the racially charged case has inflamed tensions thousands of miles from the predominantly black St. Louis suburb.

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Wendy White's canvases find space in Sherrick and Paul's first show

... in its ability to blend into its surroundings, highlighting the conflicts therein. White lives in New York's Chinatown neighborhood, and the two works in the exhibit are based on Chinatown's abundant signage. "Both of these are from a series I ...

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Ferguson protesters rally across U.S. for second day

Demonstrators took to the streets across the country for a second night, protesting the decision of a Missouri grand jury not to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager. Protesters walk on the FDR Drive during a march in support of the people of Ferguson on the second night of protests after a Missouri grand jury refused to indict police officer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown, in New York, Nov. 25, 2014.

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Sing About It: New York's 10 Best Karaoke Bars

... Bar On 45 Mott Street Be forewarned: You're probably not welcome at Bar On. The proprietors of this low-profile Chinatown karaoke lounge are not interested in catering to outsiders. In fact, if you walk in off the street and ask if they have ...

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Syvia: Brooklyn quartet is ready for the world

... a bunch of different sounds into a collective that works as an original unit. Not that it was an easy task for Chinatown native Mirsky, who has seen Syvia as a work in progress since 2011, before eventually finding the right lineup with Sheldon Chow ...

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BWW Reviews: Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin

Once again the uniquely talented Hershey Felder endears his audience to him with his newest presentation, the life and work of the one and only composer Irving Berlin in Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin . Currently onstage at the Geffen Playhouse through December 21, Felder's tribute, although a bit long - coming in a tad short of two hours without an interval - is enriching, humorous and replete with most of the brilliant Berlin tunes.

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Life's a twitch but Toronto's rats keep their noses out of our business

... 2014, it has closed five restaurants and bakeries because of rat infestations. Four were in the Kensington-Chinatown area. The city doesn't have any way to measure or track the rat population, DeSouza explained - and there may not be a practical way ...

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Authorities say NYC gun smuggling ring used Chinatown buses to bring weapons to city

November 19, 2014: This photo shows some of the guns seized from a firearm-smuggling ring that used discount bus lines to transport weapons from Florida to New York New York authorities say that eight individuals have been indicted as alleged members of a gun smuggling ring that used discount buses bound for the city's Chinatown to smuggle weapons from Florida. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says that NYPD officers seized more than 70 illegal guns, ranging from semi-automatics to Colt revolvers, many of which were to be resold for up to four times the original price.

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Officials: Gun Trafficking Ring Brought Weapons from Florida to NYC on Buses

An investigation brought down a gun trafficking ring that officials say brought weapons from Florida to New York City on commercial buses. The investigation by the New York State attorney general's office and the New York City Police Department resulted in the seizure of more than 70 illegal guns and a 196-count felony indictment.

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Chinatown Biz Group Fed Up With Placard Parkers Hogging Spaces All Day

Imagine if your neighborhood's streets were used as an employee parking lot for a nearby office building, and the people in charge of enforcing the rules turned a blind eye, day in and day out, as they ticketed members of the public but ignored lawbreaking by their colleagues. Well, there's no need to imagine: That's how parking works in Chinatown, and leaders from the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation are fed up after years of abuse.

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How A Fashion Editor Really Dresses For Her 9-To-5

... noticed before - the perfect place to cool your heels and breathe a moment. Or, meeting friends for dumplings in Chinatown and stumbling across a tiny, hole-in-the-wall record shop perfect for indulging in some late-afternoon crate-digging. Of ...

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The Ultimate, Unabridged Pork Rib Lovers Guide to New York City

... ways beyond just these. The most obvious example is the Chinese style spare rib, commonly seen in the windows of Chinatown restaurants, hanging alongside ducks and char siu pork shoulder. It's a staple of most Chinese menus around town. At these ...

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Monochromes: Here Now, a Monochromatic Look at 1980s Chinatown

Welcome back to Monochromes , a Friday mini-series wherein Curbed delves deep into the internet's photographic annals, resurfacing with an armful of old black-and-white photos of architecture and interior design. Have a find you want to share? Hit up the tipline ; we'd love to hear from you.

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Gavin Brown Goes to Chinatown: A Steven Pippin Show Opens the Gallerist's New Spot

... of careers from galleries firmly planted in tony environs way west of the Bowery, to choose this Lower East Side/Chinatown backwater as his first-ever second location. He's moved before-from West Soho to the Meatpacking District to the current space ...

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Chinatown community eyed as cops work to solve quadruple slaying upstate

... a gruesome quadruple slaying that wiped out a Chinese immigrant family, have been probing Manhattan's Chinatown in an effort to solve what remains a puzzling case of homicide. Since Oct. 10, when officials discovered the body of Jin Feng Chen, 39, ...

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Walks of New York: The Best Way to Tour the Big Apple

... pickle stand." The three-hour Lower East Side tour also has stops at Straus Square, a Buddhist temple, and the Chinatown fire brigade's building. A stop on many visitors' agendas is the new 9/11 Memorial Museum. Walks of New York adds value to the ...

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Cool Vintage Menus from Classic LA Restaurants

The Los Angeles Public Library Central branch is in a beautiful building with miles of books and commissioned artwork - and if you ride the elevator, you'll see vintage library catalogue cards lining the walls behind Plexiglass. One of the best parts of the Central branch is the menu collection, an extensive archive of restaurant, airline, banquet, and railroad menus.

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Pan Asian Rep to Celebrate 38th Season With Salute to Community Leaders, 11/6 at the Golden Unicorn

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, the East Coast's premiere producer of critically acclaimed Asian-American theatre, celebrates its 38th Season with a festive event and salute to Community Leaders on Thursday, November 6 at the Golden Unicorn in Chinatown. The evening includes presentation to salutees 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund, Wallace Wong, Fred Ho and Henry Yu k .

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New York City's Middle Class Is Shrinking

... see a new "notable presence" of Asian-Americans, however, and traditionally Asian neighborhoods like Flushing and Chinatown shrank. Despite the surge of wealthy whites, low-income Hispanic people are still the largest demographic group in New York ...

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Talking Pictures: Ellen Burstyn shines in forgotten gem "Alice"

Every so often you come across an overlooked American film that for some reason time has chosen to bury and audiences have forgotten. At the 1975 Academy Awards, that film was up against "Chinatown," "Lenny," and Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the Influence" among others, so it's easy to see now how those great films potentially overshadowed it.

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President of YMCA of Greater NY to retire

The YMCA of Greater New York announced Wednesday that Jack Lund, its president and chief executive for the past decade, will retire effective June 30, 2015. "I got the only job I ever wanted 10 years ago," said the 64-year-old.

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The other Ebola fear: Your civil liberties

... is a tiny affair relative to long-term US quarantines. For example, there was a wholesale quarantining of the Chinatown district in San Francisco more than a century ago. In 1900, the city erected a barbed-wire fence [PDF] around Chinatown after a ...

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Ex-'Top Chef' contestant Chaz Brown opens Seoul Chicken

Also: Calle Dao's Cuban-Chinese fusion, Danny Meyer's Pizzeria, Black Seed bagels, and female chefs team up against breast cancer Fried-chicken lovers now have two more spots in New York where they can indulge. Former "Top Chef" contestant Chaz Brown has opened Seoul Chicken, an East Asian chicken wing bar on the Lower East Side at 71 Clinton St. Diners can pick between Korean- and Southern-fried with a choice of sauces, like Szechuan peppercorn and sea salt, habanero kimchi or gochujang Buffalo.

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MOCAMIX: DJ Daniel Wang

Join DJ Daniel Wang and MOCA for a conversation followed by a special two-hour music set with DJ Daniel Wang as he takes listeners for a spin on the 90s Chinatown music scene, African American dance music, and New York's queer club culture.

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WalkingToursManhattan.com Added to BizBash's Resource Directory and Supplier Guide

... Tours Manhattan in business since 2007 conducts walking food tours in Greenwich Village, SoHo, Little Italy, Chinatown and the BrooklynBridge. Their tours are led by Bruce Scher, President and Licensed Tour Guide on a combination of lunch and dinner ...

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