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Fast Forward ‘Basket Of Lies’: Central Park Five Prosecutor Says She Did Nothing Wrong
As interest has been renewed in the “Central Park Five” case thanks to a recent Netflix miniseries, so has scrutiny for the prosecutor on the case, Linda Fairstein. Fairstein claims she did nothing wrong in the case, in which five teenagers — four black and one Hispanic — were wrongfully convicted for the 1989 assault of a…
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Culture If You Take a 10-Year-Old To See a Shakespeare Play
If you take a 10-year-old to see a Shakespeare play, chances are she’ll want to know how long the show is. You’ll tell her you don’t know for sure, but three hours would be a good guess. Before she rolls her eyes, you’ll remind her that the production of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the…
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The Schmooze Hasidic Stars Bring Yiddish Soul to Central Park
It’s as if the rain knew to stop precisely at 6 o’clock. After one of the wettest days of the month, the sky turned from gray to blue, the clouds parted for the last hour of Tuesday sun, and Yiddish Soul took the stage at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield. The concert, a showcase of cantorial…
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Culture Into the Wondrous ‘Woods’ Again
The sky is turning orange behind the black trees of Central Park, just like the set I remember from 25 years ago. I’m inside one of the city’s greatest works of art, the park, waiting to see another: the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” I do remember that night in 1987 at the…
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Breaking News ‘Elmo’ Booted From Central Park for Anti-Semitic Rant
A man in an Elmo costume was ejected from Central Park and hospitalized after going on an anti-Semitic rant in the middle of the New York landmark. While the man’s name was not released because he was not arrested, police said that Monday’s incident was not the first time he had dressed as the Sesame…
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