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  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Lady Gaga ready for live gig in August

    Pop star Lady Gaga, who underwent a hip operation earlier this year, is likely to perform on stage at a Beyonce Knowles' show in New York in August. Gaga is said to be planning her live return at the said show. If the news turns out to be true, it will be her first major gig following an operation on her hip in February. The grapevine is abuzz after a reported email sent by concert listings ...

  • Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling

    Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling NEW YORK - August 8 - At a press conference with Queens City Councilman Gennaro today, Riverkeeper called on Governor Paterson to designate the New York City Watershed ...

  • Angel Flight plane from Hanscom Field crashes in New York killing at least two

    An Angel Flight that took off from Hanscom Field in Bedford crashed in New York on Friday night, killing at least two of the three people on board, according to authorities. The Piper PA 34 aircraft was 60 miles from its Rome, N.Y., destination when it went down near Garoga, N.Y., at 5:10 p.m., said Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. The bodies of one male ...

  • Bikes rack up protests

    Opponents of the city’s bike-sharing program have plastered East Village kiosks with copies of a Post article headlined, "Get the rack outta here," that shows a crew moving a rack across town. A gadfly scribbled, "Call 311!" over the photocopied posters. "This is not a good location," resident Tallia Herrara, 29, said of bike racks on East 13th Street and ...


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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run [DVD]

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run [DVD]

In the early 1950s, with the help of noted film theorist and critic Andr Bazin, 20-year-old Franois Truffaut began writing regularly for the Parisian film journal Cahiers du cinma. He quickly gained a reputation as an uncompromising and often vicious critic with a clear-cut sense of what was great about the cinemahe openly took aim on such previously untouchable French masters as Marcel Car ... ...

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  • B’klyn drug and gun raid

    Cops busted two heavily armed Brooklyn drug dealers yesterday, scoring three guns and a cache of cocaine and heroin, authorities said.David Etienne, 27, and Brian Johnson, 25, were caught off guard when officers from the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Gang Squad stormed their building on Clifton Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 9:30 a.m., and gave up without a fight.Cops said they recovered a .22- ...

  • Bynes is a brat gone bong-kers

    Andrea Peyser Sometime-actress and full-time train wreck Amanda Bynes took her pocketful of crazy into Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday, where the disturbed and potentially hazardous actress caught a major break. In a ratty, platinum-blond wig that looked as if something had died in it, Bynes did her best impersonation of that competing four-car pileup, Lindsay Lohan.This is just what the city ...

  • Clues in Conn. train derailment

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The engineer of the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said yesterday.They didn’t explain what the condition was, though they did say repair work had been done last month in the area of the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it has not yet ...

  • Hot dog hooker busted

    Long Island’s hot-dog hooker is back to selling her buns, cops said yesterday. Catherine Scalia, 47 - who got seven days in prison last year for selling sex out of her hot-dog truck - was busted again yesterday for prostitution, Nassau County cops said.Sacalia was caught during a prostitution sting when she responded to a police officer’s call for a masseuse at an East Garden City ...

  • Court’s a real hair raiser for Amanda

    Troubled starlet Amanda Bynes wore a tangled peroxide-blond wig and sweat pants yesterday to a Manhattan courtroom, where she answered to drug charges - then had to bum $20 off her lawyer for the cab ride home. The dazed former Nickelodeon actress had allegedly flung a bong out of her Times Square apartment’s 36th-floor window on Thursday as she was being interviewed by uniformed ...

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