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Rita McMahon and The Wild Bird Fund

Monday, March 19th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Living Around

I’m sitting in a cozy, art, and oriental carpet filled Upper West Side apartment with perhaps twenty birds in various sized cat carriers, several free

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Color Bees

A Spelling Bee – How the Literary World Fundraises

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
by Nora Nolan on Living Around

A woman around this town knows how to get into an event to which she is ticketless. If the options of (1) going as the

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Downtown-Boathouse

Downtown Boathouse Kayaking

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
by Eugenia Pak on Living Around

When summer reigns in New York City, it becomes challenging to find shelter from all that humidity and heat. One option is to stay indoors,

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Sunday Night Social in the City:
Outdoor Rooftops and Parties High and Low

Friday, July 1st, 2011
by Nichole Wright on Dining Around

Sunday nights in the city are the supreme. In the summer, what could be better than a casual or decked out Sunday night on a

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Five Boroughs of Free Summer Fitness

Sunday, June 19th, 2011
by Alicia Schaeffer on Living Around

This is your summer to parade a beach body and it’s easier than ever with the seasonal spike in free exercise programs in New York.

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Cloister-Tree

The Cloisters—Medieval Tranquility on a Hill

Friday, June 17th, 2011
by Woman Around Town on Playing Around

From a distance, The Cloisters resembles the mysterious, medieval marvel it was intended to resemble. Opened in 1938, this architectural wonder, a branch of the

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Alicia Rountree—From the Boss’s Daughter to the Boss

Monday, November 1st, 2010
by Laura Grasso on Woman Around Town

“If you get something you want straight away, it probably won’t last,” Alicia Rountree offers as words of wisdom. The multilingual 24 year-old has a

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Woman Around Town: Lexi Lawson—Hitting the Heights

Monday, August 2nd, 2010
by Stephanie Amy Collazo on Playing Around, Woman Around Town

Whether it’s in a home studio in the Bronx, or center stage of a nationwide theater tour, rising actress/singer Lexi Lawson is making 2010 her

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