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		<title>A VALUABLE SONG</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/07/04/a-valuable-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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NEW YORK (CNN) &#8212; A rare and original manuscript of one of America&#8217;s most patriotic songs has been discovered in a flea market bargain.






A shopper browsing through the market in New York bought a framed picture of a flower for $10 and found handwritten manuscript of &#8220;America&#8221; (My Country &#8217;tis of Thee) tucked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/07/04/happy-fourth-of-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>MACY&#8217;S ILLUMINATING EVENING</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/07/03/macys-illuminating-evening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Even though its patriotic significance has long ago given way to mostly sheer entertainment and spectacle, another Fourth of July has arrived. While the cost of living is skyrocketing, trust in our national leadership plummeting, hope for America&#8217;s future eroding, and a series of on-going and prospective wars are severely draining this nation&#8217;s resources, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STATUE OF LIBERTY BASICS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/07/02/statue-of-liberty-basics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Statue of Liberty Facts: 

When shipped from France to New York, she came in 350 pieces.
Once delivered, it took four months to put her together, and was completed on October 28, 1886.
The Statue of Liberty was closed to visitors following September 11, 2001, but Liberty Island was reopened on December 20, 2001. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOMINO SUGAR: BITTERSWEET SIGN</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/07/01/bittersweet-domino/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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The Domino Sugar Refinery building is a relic that real estate developers and landmark preservationists are currently sweet  on.  It&#8217;s a century-old refining plant located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that&#8217;s been closed for years and has, until recently, been quietly crumbling into the mist of time. However, while Domino lost its commercial viability here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BUT THIS ISN&#8217;T KANSAS, TOTO</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/30/but-this-isnt-kansas-toto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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The above photo is of a tornado that recently formed over the Bulls Head section of Staten Island, submitted to the Staten Island Advance by a reader. It&#8217;s a great shot: very impressive and very threatening of a sight that, for most New Yorkers, was once confined to the THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Tornadoes are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE &#8220;FOURTH&#8221; OF JULY?</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/30/the-fourth-of-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Far be it from me to rain on any of my fellow Americans&#8217; barbecues and fireworks (even parades), but ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happened in Philadelphia on 4 July 1776.  Aside from minor discussions concerning the Declaration and its publication, only John Hancock, the Congressional President, and Secretary Charles Thomson signed their names to the newly-created document [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUICIDE ON WATER STREET</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/29/suicide-on-water-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Reports: Model dies in fall from NYC building

















NEW YORK - A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said.






Ruslana Korshunova, 20, died around 2:30 p.m. in a fall from a building on Water Street, in Manhattan&#8217;s Financial District, The New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A COSTLY BREW</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/28/a-costly-brew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Few people would argue that nearly a hundred dollars is a little too much to pay for a glass of beer. Even the most insanely frivolous or just simply insane, captivated within the glow of their night on the town revels, wouldn&#8217;t cavalierly include such a high-priced brew on their tab. However, here in NYC, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PALOMA: A STEP APART</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/27/paloma-a-step-apart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Paloma Herrera has graced the company of the American Ballet Theatre with her beauty and versatility since 1991. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 21 December 1975, she studied with Natalia Makarova at London&#8217;s English National Ballet, then moved on to New York&#8217;s School of American Ballet. So impressed was the staff with Herrera that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUNE IS BUSTIN&#8217; OUT SUDDENLY, EARLIER</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/26/june-is-bustin-out-early-hot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Over the past 10-15 years, summers have been arriving earlier and earlier in New York City. Of course, June becomes the default pivotal month for the city&#8217;s premature heat with spring suddenly transforming itself into summer during the last week of May, effectively canceling out spring.
The four-day heat wave at the beginning of the month, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ON ALTERED IMAGES</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/24/on-altered-images/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Miniature children playing in a drinking fountain
Anupam Pal (Kanpur, India)
Photographed December 2007, Chakdaha, India
The fountain was shot in Pennsylvania and the children (the photographer&#8217;s niece and nephews) in Chakdaha, India. &#8220;The person in the background is me,&#8221; says Pal. &#8220;The idea was to show the necessity of cleaner and safer water, not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TROLLEYS&#8230;THANKS BUT NO THANKS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/23/trolleysthanks-but-no-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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A very attractive and quaint but, unfortunately, unprofitable curiosity has bitten the dust and has been consigned to the realm of yesterday&#8217;s endless assortment of neat ideas. Visitors to the city were underwhelmed with the &#8220;tourist trolleys&#8221; that offered free yet uninteresting rides to and from Brooklyn cultural institutions; unfortunately, limited to mainly Park Slope, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MERMAIDS AND THE LIKE IN CONEY ISLAND</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/23/mermaids-and-the-like-on-coney-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Last Saturday, Coney Island held its annual Mermaid Parade: a potpourri of unquestionably unique and unabashedly diverse entertainers. This is where any human being, regardless of physical attributes, can dress up as a mermaid, starfish, octopus , even a can of tuna fish, and be hailed and respected as a talented performer&#8230;for a moment or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUMMERTIME THOUGHTS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/22/summertime-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Make a Smilebox slideshow




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		<title>A BRIDGE TO WATERFALLS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/21/a-bridge-to-waterfalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.
The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOT THE LAST PICTURE SHOW</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/20/not-the-last-picture-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Courtesy of Shankweiler&#8217;s Drive-In Theatre Archives




Arts &#38; Culture

The Drive-In Theater Turns 75
The continued attraction of viewing movies under the stars

By Robin T. Reid
Smithsonian.com, May 28, 2008










On June 6, 2008 the flag flying over the U.S. Capitol will commemorate the 75th birthday of a distinctive slice of Americana: the drive-in movie theater.






It was on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CURFEWS ON VIEWS OF SUNSETS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/19/curfews-on-views-of-sunsets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Before the emergence of million-dollar condominiums in Williamsburg , the area that became East River State Park was little more, if not much less, than an abandoned lot. A neglected and rickety fence surrounded the lot, which did little to prevent people from merely walking through the fence&#8217;s wide array of wayward holes to gain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE TURTLE &#038; THE ACORN</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/17/the-turtle-the-acorn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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The American Revolution saw the first use of a submarine in combat. Invented by David Bushnell, it was called &#8220;The Turtle&#8221; due to its resemblance to a turtle (as well as to a clam): two wooden shells coated with tar and reinforced with steel bands, the contraption measured 8 feet long, 6 feet deep and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALLIGATORS?  I&#8217;LL BITE</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/16/alligators-ill-bite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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For decades, one of NYC&#8217;s favorite urban legends was that of alligators supposedly roaming through the city&#8217;s subway and sewer systems (which, actually, could be one in the same). It&#8217;s amusing to see a play on a rather absurd yet entertaining myth; this bronze alligator (installed in 2004) popping up for a &#8220;bite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TALK ABOUT THE &#8220;GRAVEYARD SHIFT&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/13/talk-of-the-graveyard-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Yes, it&#8217;s somewhat a case of deja vu all over again. This very spirited subway traveler had appeared earlier on this blog, but was lost (now found) due to technical failures and other nasty occurrences which have plagued this website. He&#8217;s (or she?) now resurrected for your viewing pleasure or frustration.  I, on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PRIVATE DRIVE-IN?</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/13/a-private-drive-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I imagine I&#8217;ve seen all there is to see in New York, I soon learn that there&#8217;s so much more to see that invariably surprises me.











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Manhattan&#8217;s only drive-in cinema and the world&#8217;s smallest - it only has room for one car - DRV-IN involves no &#8220;driving in&#8221; at all. Artists Ben [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOWERING BABELS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/12/towering-babels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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New York City is experiencing an improbable building boon that appears manic in scope and erratic in organization. While much of the city&#8217;s older and vital infrastructure is left dangling in disrepair and disregard, massive and expensive skyscraper projects are either already soaring towards the skies or in the offing.



This wave of fanatical construction is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>URBAN SHAMANS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/09/urban-shamans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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New York City has been, for approximately forty years, served as a sort of steel-and-concrete canvass for graffiti artists. From all over the world (including places beneath it), artists of questionable talent and doubtful character have sought the city&#8217;s subway cars, buildings and billboards as  &#8220;in your face&#8221;  ateliers for their peculiar medium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/08/those-daring-young-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Alain Robert, a French stuntman known for climbing skyscrapers, scaled
the New York Times building at West 41st Sreet and Eighth Avenue in
Midtown Manhattan on Thursday. He did the stunt for the cause of global
warming, and was arrested once he reached the roof&#8230; &#8230;&#8221;
nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/06&#8230;
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		<title>A BLOODY PENGUIN ATOP THE BRIDGE</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/07/a-bloody-penguin-atop-the-bridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Penguin at the 125th Brooklyn Bridge Anniversary
June 3rd, 2008
I just went with a pal to the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge. How cool is that? Can you believe, 125 years? - no kidding!

We hung out during the day and then stayed all the way through to the night light show. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DYLAN: STILL BLOWIN&#8217; IN THE WIND</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/07/still-blowin-in-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Bob Dylan, the legendary, multi-poetical  and neverending electric/acoustic generation-spanning troubadour will bring his Neverending Tour to Prospect Park in Brooklyn on August 12, his website announced last Monday. The concert is part of the &#8220;Celebrate Brooklyn&#8221; series with tickets ranging from $55-$100 and went on sale exclusively to fan club members who knew the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REMEMBER D-DAY</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/06/remember-d-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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The National D-Day Memorial Foundation:   dday.org
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		<title>A VIRUS BY ANY OTHER NAME</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/06/06/929/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Everyone who merrily surfs and happily cruises through the enchanted seas of cyberspace more or less realizes that something with their number on it cunningly lurks out there: a VIRUS. Last Saturday morning, a virus with our number on it attacked our computer and left my wife and I in a state of perplexity bordering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MICE AT THE MET</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/29/mice-at-the-met/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 10:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Living in a city such as New York requires a certain degree of grace under fire and disappointment. Each and every day brings with it an additional letdown that is routinely tallied-up as symptomatic of big city life, then resignedly accepted by the majority of its jaded inhabitants and gradually forgotten (or absorbed). Almost anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DISASTER WITHIN IMAGINATION</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/27/disaster-within-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 09:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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The 1960 collision between a TWA Constellation and a United Airlines DC-8 over New York ranks as one of this city&#8217;s greatest disasters. I was 6-years old at the time and I&#8217;ve never forgotten that incident; in fact, I&#8217;ve always been haunted by the horrors that went unseen by me. Lacking any existing video documentation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEMORIAL DAY: CIVIL WAR MONUMENT</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/26/memorial-day-civil-war-monument/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 03:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Restored war monument highlights NYC Memorial Day ceremony
5/26/2008, 4:08 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — &#8220;As the nation marks Memorial Day, New York City officials have unveiled a newly refurbished Civil War monument in Manhattan&#8217;s Riverside Park.
The city and the private Riverside Park Fund have paid more than $1 million for new plantings, chess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;IT AIN&#8217;T NECESSARILY SO&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/23/it-aint-necessarily-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;The Bible says that God created the universe in six days. It took slightly longer for a Sunset Park artist to tackle the epic task of painting every one of His Old Testament commandments.
Indeed, Archie Rand spent five years painting all 613 commandments on individual canvases in a &#8216;Mad magazine style,&#8217; and in doing so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHERE&#8217;S THAT CONFOUNDED BRIDGE?</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/22/wheres-that-confounded-bridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 21:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Today marks the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge. Stretching 5,989 feet across the East River to connect Brooklyn to Manhattan, it&#8217;s one of the oldest and most famous bridges in the world. Designed by John Augustus Roebling, the bridge is one of the city&#8217;s most treasured icons and it was designated a National Historic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A SAVAGE LOW-LIFE</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/21/a-savage-low-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 01:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Following news that Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, national radio host Michael Savage opened his show by cutting audio of Kennedy with clips of reporters discussing his diagnosis and audio from Kindergarten Cop in which Schwarzenegger says, &#8216;It’s not a tumor.&#8217;” He later played a Dead Kennedys song saying it was &#8216;in some respect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY GRANDMOTHER FROM MOTT STREET, USA</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/21/my-grandmother-from-mott-street-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Bordered by Bleecker Street to the north, Bayard Street to the south, and by Lafayette Street  and the Bowery respectively to its west and east, a neighborhood called Little Italy (now Chinatown) lay situated in Lower Manhattan. This sordid area of dilapidated tenements, broken streets, and impoverished but ambitious people, was, out of necessity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE STONES&#8217; NOT FADE AWAY CONTINUES</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/20/stones-not-fade-away-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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The maestro of fierce celluloid Martin Scorsese has teamed-up with those rockin&#8217; vagabonds of rock The Rolling Stones for a new documentary. Filmed at the Beacon Theatre in New York in 2006, the documentary features two concerts which the Stones performed there for a select and small audience, including 30 members of the Clinton clan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HONOR AMONG THIEVES</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/18/honor-among-thieves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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In the spirit of Martin Scorsese, New York City continues its proud tradition of sordid intrigue. Unfortunately, the joke&#8217;s on all of us. 

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		<title>FROM FOG HORNS TO BEASTS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/15/from-fog-horns-to-beasts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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The image above, a scene from THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953), terrified me as a child. Even though I hadn&#8217;t yet been born to view it on a movie theatre&#8217;s big screen, the small screen of our television sufficed while my imagination did the rest. The lurking menace in the night which approaches its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANNA NETREBKO: THE BEAUTY OF OPERA</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/12/anna-netrebko-the-beauty-of-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SEMI;COLON THINGS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/09/semicolon-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Neil Neches has the awkward yet proud distinction as being the only person since David Berkowitz (&#8221;The Son of Sam&#8221;) publicly recognized for his correct use of the semicolon. An employee in the New York City transit authority&#8217;s marketing/service department, Neches made a little-noticed literary embellishment to a much-noticed placard hanging in the city&#8217;s subways.
The sign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ELEPHANT WALK: 1920</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/04/elephant-walk-1920/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 19:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;April 24, 1920. New York City. &#8220;Overalls Circus Parade.&#8221; View full size. 5&#215;7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. In the background: The Cort Hotel, probably at 301 West 48th Street and Eighth Avenue. Is it still there?&#8221;











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		<title>NAUGHTY IN WILLIAMSBURG</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/04/naughty-in-williamsburg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 17:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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I know what you&#8217;re probably thinking, but the above photo IS NOT of me and my wife relaxing at home. We&#8217;re too sophisticated and discreet for such activities (at least, not when the cameras are rolling and the public is drooling) and generally maintain a energetic if low profile. Besides, the scenario in question would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOSSELLA&#8217;S ONE FOR THE ROAD</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/02/fossellas-one-for-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Congressman Vito Fossella, the Dudley Do-Right by default of Staten Island, was arrested for drunk driving yesterday in Alexandria, Virginia. Police were silent in regard to Fosella&#8217;s arrest and didn&#8217;t reveal whether or not the congressman passed a field sobriety test, but told THE BROOKLYN PAPER that he was detained and will have to appear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MADONNA: STILL GOING STRONG</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/05/01/madonna-still-going-strong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 Even though her fans would find this tantamount to heresy, I never liked Madonna&#8230;not as a performer, not as a person. While I recognized her talent and acknowledged her versatility (I was one of the few who thought she was great as Evita), her massive catalogue of gaudy stunts and vulgar exhibitions were a wonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADORABLE ATTENTION</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/04/29/adorable-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a moment in the life of a cat.











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		<title>SPITZER&#8217;S SQUEEZE PUTTING THE SQUEEZE ON</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/04/29/spitzers-squeeze-putting-the-squeeze-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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The sleazy and expensive Ashley Alexandra Dupre, prostitute extraordinaire, whose association with doomed the by far sleazier and reprehensible Eliot Spitzer, despised and disgraced governor of New York, is suing the equally sleazy and (what&#8217;s worse) insipid Joe Francis, creator of the moronic GIRLS GONE WILD, for $10 million clams. She asserts that her &#8220;name&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TERROR ALERT</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/04/28/terror-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Frankenbust
after weeks of drills, real terror has hit 42nd St - Frankenstein is going DOWN!
Source: City Rag cityrag.com
 

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		<title>BAD WAY RUNWAYS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/04/25/bad-way-runways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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 At the breakfast table, through a haze of sleepy eyes and steaming coffee, I discovered the following headline in the NY TIMES: FOR AIRLINES, RUNWAYS ARE THE DANGER ZONE (Matthew L. Wald). This looks like an amusing story, I thought, and read on, soon learning that the thousands of recently delayed and grounded flights have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEN WITH GUNS AND DOGS</title>
		<link>http://electriceggcream.com/2008/04/24/men-with-guns-and-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m absolutely sick and tired of New York City&#8217;s war on terror &#8217;s security obstacles and spectacles. Since 9/11, the sight of barricaded streets, restricted building areas, security checkpoints, and similar curtailments of liberties, have taken their toll on most people&#8217;s ability to suspend disbelief and anxiety attacks. If anything, as I remember that amazing day (even [...]]]></description>
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