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In its own literature, BAM defines its role as a “home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas.” Adventurous today, indeed, but in the 1860s this fearlessness was far from BAM’s reality.
In the late 1800s, when BAM was born, the theater world in New York at large was becoming more controversial, with members of different social classes clashing in riots in downtown Manhattan.
According to Lehner, BAM was the “conservative backlash” to those events, and steered away from topical pieces.
This is “just after a time when we’re having prostitution in the balcony of theaters, so there a lot of associations that theaters are low brow,” Lehner said. “For the first year at BAM, the trustees said, ‘We are having no theater whatsoever, this is just going to be for music.’”

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Andrea Prestinario is beautifully understated and real as sweet, bookish Louise, the long-ignored daughter who surprisingly morphs into the happily glamorous Gypsy Rose Lee, and finally finds the steel to stand up to her mother. David Kortemeier captures the essence of Herbie, the meek but self-aware man who loves Mama Rose until she goes one step too far. Matthew Crowle stops the show as Tulsa, the boyish tap dancer. The kids who line up for a patriotic workout in Mama Rose’s endlessly recycled vaudeville act are priceless. And for sheer hilarity there are the three strippers played to vintage perfection by Susan Lubeck, Cheryl Avery and Frances Asher. They sing “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” but as this electrifying production proves, what you really need is immense talent and absolute truth.

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Where the biggest foreclosure discounts are, Bleecker Bob’s may be a Starbucks … and more January 27, 2012 05:00PM
1. Where are the nation’s biggest foreclosure discounts? [Realtor Magazine]
2. Cherished record store Bleecker Bob’s could soon be a Starbucks [Racked]
3. Video tour of the new Whitney downtown [NYO]
4. Final mortgage agreement may not include legal immunity for banks [HuffPo]
5. Commercial property investors pulling out of London [Bloomberg]
6. Nightclub XL, first stage of new gay hotel the Out NYC, to open tonight [Hotel Chatter]
7. Flatbush Avenue bar previously full of shady strippers to become Dunkin’ Donuts, Subway [Brooklyn Paper]
8. Delinquencies in FHA’s single-family portfolio inch upward [National Mortgage News]
9. City dumps trees it chopped down into Prospect Park pond, threatening ecosystem, environmentalists allege [Brooklyn Paper]
10. Bayridge is “meat market of young, eligible bachelors” [Brooklyn Paper]

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Originally from the tiny bit of Texas with a coast, Hockaday, now in her late twenties, is an artist with a long-standing love affair with the water. At 19, she joined the Floating Neutrinos, a band of wanderers who sail around the world in a junk boat, and helped them construct a 50-foot catamaran. She later moved to Portland, Oregon, to study for her master’s degree in fine art, and began building another boat by hand. There, in the Pacific North-west, she also came across the legend of Nancy Boggs, a 19th-century siren who ran brothels aboard boats in order to evade the law.
“I wanted to build a business that evades the law too, but I didn’t really want to run a brothel,” Hockaday says wryly. “I don’t actually care that much about the rental of the boats. I just want people to come and stay and have an experience.” To that end, she runs lectures, screenings and events most summer evenings on the floating platform stage at the centre of the Boatel, featuring friends and interested parties.

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Mr. Taylor conflates abstraction and realism in his work, giving it the feeling of bluntness (and mischief) found in someone like Alex Katz, but the way he hunts down his subjects transforms his practice into a process of earnest documentation. A number of superficial factors, however, have branded him an “outsider artist”—he’s black, he grew up poor, he paints prostitutes and drug users, he is a seriously prolific curser, he had a 10-year stint working as a psychiatric nurse at a California state hospital, he didn’t finish art school until he was in his 30s, and he didn’t get his work shown in a gallery until a decade after that. Mr. Taylor and the people close to him admonish the label. (“Motherfuck,” he said when I mentioned “outsider.” “I say to hell with all that shit. Some Rauschenberg shit can look like outsider shit and vice versa. Fuck yeah, man.”) But he’s also an artist in demand. In addition to the …

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Andrea Prestinario is beautifully understated and real as sweet, bookish Louise, the long-ignored daughter who suprisingly morphs into the happily glamorous Gypsy Rose Lee, and finally finds the steel to stand up to her mother. David Kortemeier captures the essence of Herbie, the meek but self-aware man who loves Mama Rose until she goes one step too far. Matthew Crowle stops the show as Tulsa, the boyish tap dancer. The kids who line up for a patriotic workout in Mama Rose’s endlessly recycled vaudeville act are priceless. And for sheer hilarity there are the three strippers played to vintage perfection by Susan Lubeck, Cheryl Avery and Frances Asher. They sing “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” but as this electrifying production proves, what you really need is immense talent and absolute truth.

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How I Helped Write the Best Tabloid Headline Ever
30 years later, “Headless Body in Topless Bar” is still a New York classic.
HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR is the most famous headline in New York City tabloid history. It appeared on the front page of the New York Post in the spring of 1983 after a holdup man killed the owner of a strip club in Queens and then inexplicably forced one of the patrons to cut off the victim’s head. I didn’t write that legendary headline, but I played a part in its creation.
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But Musetto and I had a problem that afternoon. No one was really sure at that point if it was a topless bar or not. It obviously needed to be a topless place for the headline to work. We needed to confirm that, and we needed to do it in a hurry to get it in the paper. Everything was riding on that one missing fact.

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You’ve been working a lot with Rick Ross lately, and were even talks of you signing to MMG. How did you two become close, or is it just a musical thing? Ross came to New York, and I was in the strip club – I’d always be seeing him, but one day I went to the strip club and he called me at like 3 in the morning and was like “Yo, come to the studio.” I went to the studio and he was like “Yo man, I love your work. I want you to be a part of MMG” and stuff like that. At first, he wasn’t trying to sign me, at first we were just doing music.  He let me hear the whole album, and he asked me what song I liked and I picked it out, and he let me lay a verse down. I laid my verse down, and he called me two days after that for my n …

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… In fact, when I moved to New York and tried getting started, I worked at Macy’s during Christmas season, but was fired because I wouldn’t stop singing along with the carols,” he says.
Driving cabs is a common occupation of would-be actors, but Cooper never did that. “I might have been luckier if I had,” he says. “Instead, I was a bicycle messenger, which, believe me, is no fun during the winter months.”
At that time, he might not have guessed that his future would include singing on Broadway, where directors, audiences and casts would appreciate his voice. Seven of the 10 Broadway shows he’s done have been musicals.
One was “The Life,” for which he won a 1997 Tony. There he was also the boss of a business, but a less savory one: a prostitution ring.

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Men charged with taking prostitute to Vermont, New York farms
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Arraignment???? Sentencing???? Courts???? Why all this cost? Just deport them—or is illegal immigration not really a crime anymore? I thought they were all “just doing jobs that citizens wouldn’t do anymore”. This is a disgrace to our country!– Posted by Townguy on Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 8:38 am EST
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Good thing that these folks were stopped by Federal Agents instead of the Vermont State Police. The Troopers, thanks to Gov. Shumlin would not have been allowed to ask what their immigration status is. Certainly dont want to offend these men who are bringing prostitutes up to Vermont do we.– Posted by Chris Power on Fri, Jan 27, 2012, 6:53 am EST
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