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College food swipe: Is the card worth the cash?
Special to amNewYorkA year ago, the founders of Off-Campus Meal Plan (OCMP) brought their idea to New York, giving students -- or parents -- the option of putting money into a debit account that can be used at restaurants around the city. The 14-year-old service is a big...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Theater, New York University, Music Theater, Colleges and Universities
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Conor Oberst looks outward on self-titled album
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comIt's not just the name that's different for Conor Oberst, whose latest album is the first credited to him rather than his one-man-band name Bright Eyes. It's his entire outlook. Where Bright Eyes albums have generally been introspective and specific in...Tags: Elvis Presley, Carla Bruni, Chris Brown, R. Kelly, Woody Guthrie
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Discount tickets and all your theater needs
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor 40 years, TKTS has sold same-day show tickets 25% to 50% off to dozens of productions from a Times Square booth. But be warned: The clerks take cash, traveler's checks and gift certificates but no credit cards. (There's also a $4 transaction fee...Tags: Broadway, Credit and Debt, Joseph Papp, Greenwich Village, Central Park
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'In Search of a Midnight Kiss' is smitten with L.A.
Special to The TimesIf a young filmmaker was to make a romantic comedy in Los Angeles, using the city not only as its setting but also as its guide, its muse, maybe even its soul, where might he be best-served in finding a model for such an undertaking? Oddly enough, he...Tags: In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Los Angeles, Los Feliz, David Lean, Cinema Industry
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Downtown Records rides crest of paradigm shift
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTalk about a peculiar way of celebrating a worldwide smash hit. In 2006, Downtown Records was just a scrappy indie start-up label with a skeletal staff of four working out of the chief executive's downtown Manhattan apartment. Enter hip-hop-rock-soul duo...Tags: Gnarls Barkley, 50 Cent, Aretha Franklin, Movies, Startups
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Leasing building could save MTA $100M
msweeney@am-ny.comWhen they look at its nearly vacant building at Jay and Willoughby streets in Downtown Brooklyn, some critics of the MTA see an opportunity to help fund the cash-strapped agency. With another possible fare hike looming as the agency faces soaring...Tags: Financing and Stock Offerings, David A. Paterson, Subway Transportation, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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Naked man rescued from Hudson River
msweeney@am-ny.comA naked man clinging to a log was pulled from the Hudson River Monday afternoon, a fire department spokesman said. The man was spotted floating on the log between two piers near Harrison Street shortly before 3 p.m. An alert observer called 911 and a...Tags: Fires, New York
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Protests in NYC Over the Sean Bell Verdict
andrew.strickler@newsday.comIn the most widespread show of dissent since the acquittal of three police officers charged in the killing of Sean Bell, protesters gathered Wednesday in "pray ins" at six locations in New York City. At shortly after 4:30 p.m., seven or eight people were...Tags: Police, Michael Bloomberg, Demonstration, Al Sharpton, Police Arrests
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Historic Brooklyn F Train stop to get facelift
msweeney@am-ny.comThe Art Deco F station at Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Park Slope will soon be given an overdue facelift that includes a new copper roof and an aluminum panel exterior. Work on the station, which is among more than three dozen on the National...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Park Slope, Coney Island, New York City Transit
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Stripper charged in stabbing of B'klyn man
A strip club dancer was charged Tuesday with stabbing to death in a Bay Ridge hotel a man who helped get her a job, police said. Pamela Hanson, 20, of 673 Marcy Ave. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, told detectives she killed David Diaz,...Tags: Police, Rego Park, Bars, Bay Ridge
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Downtown San Diego
The Andrew Crecca family of Hauppauge took a road trip through Northern and Southern California in August. Among the sights Crecca captured with a "small but very capable" Olympus FE 240, which he'd bought just for the trip, was this giant statue of a...Tags: Downtown (Los Angeles, California), San Diego (San Diego, California), Long Island, California, Melville
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Endangered New York: 10 (more) to save
Special to amNewYorkAs the real-estate boom year of 2007 winds down, houses of worship, schools, historic residences, whole neighborhoods -- even the corner diner -- tenuously exist under the threat of the wrecking ball. Indeed, the changes are so breathtaking that the...Tags: George Washington, History, Armed Forces, Carroll Gardens, Religious Leaders
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