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Millesime – $1 Oysters at Happy Hour

March 18, 2012
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Why not, indeed!  Not much makes me happier or more excited than $1 oysters.  So when I saw this sign outside of Millesime – the bar and restaurant inside the Carlton Hotel  – I knew my next Happy Hour (read: the very next day) would be filled with those $1 Oysters.

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Don Antonio Pizza

March 15, 2012
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As a big fan of Keste in Greenwich Village, I was pretty excited when I heard the man behind it – Roberto Caporuscio – was part of a new pizza place in my neighborhood, Hell’s Kitchen.  It’s called Don Antonio by Starita.  Antonio Starita is a third-generation pizza maestro from Naples.  So the combined efforts […]

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The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess – on Broadway

January 25, 2012
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The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Music by George Gershwin Lyrics by Ira Gershwin   This has been one very talked about, heatedly debated and somewhat controversial revival – really re-working of “Porgy and Bess”.  This production takes the Gershwin’s original opera and changes it – both book and musically to make it into a theatre […]

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Aceluck Thai – My Favorite Hell’s Kitchen Thai

November 4, 2011
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  These terribly-lit pictures don’t do it justice, but Aceluck Thai serves some of the freshest, tastiest Thai food in Hell’s Kitchen.  And with literally dozens of Thai restaurants in this area, that is no small claim to fame. It’s a small slip of a restaurant located on one of the not-so-nice blocks of 9th […]

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How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – on Broadway

October 18, 2011
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying  Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser I have to admit it – I wasn’t overly excited to see this production of “How to Succeed”.  It’s just not one of my all-time favorite shows.  It’s certainly not bad – […]

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