Glam girls' trip to NYC

We were seeing each other again after way too long, a last-minute girls' weekend in New York City. My friend Bettina, casually dismissing the increasingly frantic alerts of an impending snowmageddon, traveled from Boston, while I took the easy ride from Washington, D.C. We left the kids, errands and cleaning to our sometimes-capable husbands, not caring what awaited us when we got back.

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Herb Barish, Co-Founder of One of NYC's Oldest Drug Treatment Programs, Dead at 77

Herbert Barish, a clinical social worker and co-founder of The Lower Eastside Service Center, Inc., one of New York's oldest drug treatment programs, died on Wednesday at Hackensack Hospital at Pascack Valley in Westwood, New Jersey. He was 77. His son, David, confirmed his death.

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PathoMap: NY subway shelters bubonic plague, anthrax, 600+ unknown organisms

... trace the density of population, as well as the ethnicity of the neighborhood. For instance, a Hispanic area near Chinatown in Manhattan "appeared to hold a strong mixture of Asian and Hispanic human genes." In 2013, New York City's subway system ...

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How Broad City's 22-Year-Old Music Supervisor Crafts...

Comedy Central's Broad City centers around two twenty-something white women living in New York City, but it's not a Brooklyn show or a hotbed for indie rock, "I think there is a misconception that New York young people are just automatically from Brooklyn now" says the show's music supervisor Matt "FX" Feldman , a 22-year-old native New Yorker. "I think Girls , not to single them out, they come off to me as a Brooklyn show.

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The Hottest Restaurants in Manhattan Right Now, February 2015

Danny Bowien is up to these days. The Heatmap is here to help. Here are the 20 hottest restaurants in Manhattan this month, including the return of Dirt Candy , the latest blockbuster from the Torrisi boys, and many more.

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'Fresh off the Boat,' a sitcom about an Asian-America family, is groundbreaking - and funny

... premise. Yes, Louis Huang and his family (wife Jessica and their three sons) have moved from Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown to Orlando, where Louis, "full of big plans," has opened a new restaurant. But the title suggests refugees paralyzed by culture ...

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The Luc Sante soundtrack Read More

... I couldn't find a decent vocal rendition of "The Bowery." Might also go with the Mills Brothers' version of "Chinatown My Chinatown." These are songs that went through my head continuously then. The book gave me a lasting appreciation for ...

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