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Joan R. Kaltenbach, secretary and Orioles fan
Joan R. Kaltenbach, a former secretary and homemaker who was an avid Orioles fan, died Saturday of kidney failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 87. Joan Rita Anderson was born and raised in Texas, Baltimore County. She was a 1938 graduate of...Tags: James Cagney, Schools, Roman Catholic, Baltimore Orioles, Christianity
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What 50 cents got you in 1908
1Fifty cents could get you a cheap seat at the Colonial Theatre, where in August 1908 George M. Cohan's comedy "The Talk of New York" was playing. The hit song? "When a Fellow's on the Level With a Girl That's on the Square." Victor Moore starred; he went...Tags: Public Holidays, Movies, Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks, Theme Park Vacations
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Stay away from 'Flamingo Court'
amNewYork theater criticNot only is "Flamingo Court" the equivalent of very bad community theater, it literally comes to us courtesy of the Boca Raton Community Theater. To enjoy this, you'd have to do more than merely turn your thinking cap off. You'd have to smash it apart...Tags: Neil Simon, Boca Raton, Alzheimer's Disease, Justice System, Court Administration
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Lost art of vaudeville back with 'Pazzazz!'
We were lunching at Musso & Frank's, which is a glorious old restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard once filled with luminaries from the worlds of literature and cinema, but almost empty on this particular day. The place was opened in 1919 by John Musso and...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Music, Ernest Hemingway, Cheshire
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Goodspeed Reviving '60s British Musical 'Sixpence'
That British accent you'll be hearing in Goodspeed Musical's production of "Half a Sixpence" will be authentic. Jon J. Peterson will star as Cockney lad Arthur Kipps in a musical based on H.G. Wells' "Kipps," about a draper's assistant who inherits a...Tags: TheaterWorks, Music, Wethersfield, Hamden, Celebrity
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Is He Dead?
The current Broadway production of Mark Twain's 1898 farce "Is He Dead?" is not exactly a revival. In spite of the fact that Twain died in 1910, "Is He Dead?" is being billed as a new comedy. How exactly did this "new" play suddenly spring forth from...Tags: Mark Twain, Broadway, Music Theater, Theater
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City Living: Midtown South
engo@am-ny.comThe area the city defines as Midtown South is many things, but it's definitely not this: slow. People bustle to their jobs in the towering office buildings. Tourists flock to the ample shopping and historical sites. And now more than ever, people are...Tags: Theft, Manhattan (New York City), Physical Fitness, Sales, Tourism and Leisure
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Physical, emotional and spiritual support pumps up kids for FCAT
Sentinel Staff WriterWhen Evans High School students bend their heads to take the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, dozens of community members will bow their heads, too -- in prayer. A group of about 40 churchgoers hopes that God's power will do what studying...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Classical Music, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Christianity, Pine Hills
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Roll call for homegrown icons
STAFF WRITER; Kevin AmorimThere are two types of Long Islanders: Those who are proud of where they live and those who aren't. "There is an inherent inferiority complex that Long Islanders have, which I actually find kind of charming," explains Hicksville native and Oyster Bay...Tags: Music Industry, Manhattan (New York City), Music, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Classical Music
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Fall Arts: Events calendar
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Evening of Stars. Amateur salsa dancers compete for prizes at 4 p.m., winner makes a return appearance at 7:30 p.m. with champion professional salsa dancers, part of the River to River Festival, rivertoriver nyc.com, Battery Park, Main...Tags: Hofstra University, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Petroleum Industry, Popular Music, Pete Seeger
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Country
Staff WriterIt was the beginning of a decade of Prohibition and apparent prosperity: a time of jazz bands and petting parties, high-stepping flappers and college boys with hip flasks. On Long Island, there were rumrunners and dealers in bathtub gin, gaudy parties on...Tags: Stocks, Lewis Allen, John F. Kennedy, Sophie Tucker, Marcel Proust
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Kings Point
Beginnings: It was through unlucky circumstances that former New York Gov. John Alsop King first built on the land that is now Kings Point. In the mid-1800s, after King and a relative inherited a strip of land north of Great Neck, a coin toss decided...Tags: Long Island Sound, Republican Party, Gold Coast, Turning Point, Kings Point
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