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  • Bang With Friends mysterious CEO revealed

    Bang with Friends- the controversial Facebook app run by its CEO and co-founder who just goes by his initial 'C' has been revealed accidentally by Internet New York which included the founders' name on the online ballot. BWF app creator Colin Hodge, 28, and Omri Mor had remained anonymous till last week, but the leak of their identity through Internet Week New York disappointed Hodge, the Daily ...

  • 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 ...

  • Knicks Acquire Four-Time All-Star Carmelo Anthony

    from Minnesota. At 26 years old, Carmelo is in the prime of his NBA career having already established himself as a one of the games elite players and the opportunity to add him to our roster was one we could not pass up, Walsh said. I feel we now have a great frontcourt tandem in Amare and Carmelo and this is an exciting day for the New York Knicks and all our fans. It is extremely difficult ...

  • NY Knicks vs. Miami Heat Sweepstakes Official Rules

    NY KNICKS VS. MIAMI HEAT SWEEPSTAKES (The Sweepstakes) OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. 1. PERIOD: Sweepstakes begins at 12:00pm (noon) Eastern Time (ET) on Monday, January 24, 2011 and ends at 8:00pm ET on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 (the Sweepstakes Period). 2. ELIGIBILITY: Sweepstakes is open to ...


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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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  • Knicks Roster Coming Together

    The New York Knicks roster is starting to fill out nicely. A day after the Knicks officially obtained five-time All-Star Amare Stoudemire, the team announced the acquisition of Anthony Randolph, Ronny Turiaf and Kelenna Azubuike from Golden State in a sign-and-trade deal for David Lee on Friday. The Knicks roster, including the three drafted rookies, now stands at 12. This trade gives us an ...

  • Knicks Complete Sign Trade for Stoudemire

    has been officially acquired from the Phoenix Suns, via sign-and trade, in exchange for a protected future second-round draft selection. Stoudemire, 6-10, 249-pounds, has career averages of 21.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, 1.40 blocks and 34.3 minutes in 516 career games (499 starts) in eight NBA seasons with the Phoenix Suns. The Lake Wales, FL-native has been named an NBA All-Star five times and ...

  • 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 Crashes in NY 2 Killed 1 Missing

    The crash of a volunteer Angel Flight in upstate New York that killed at least two people is under investigation, and the search for the missing pilot is ongoing, authorities said. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said the flight's two passengers were found dead near where the twin-engine plane crashed in a wooded area in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany. He said the search for ...

  • 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 ...

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