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Daniel Boulud’s former marketing maven Georgette Farkas goes from the corporate frying pan into the fire.
Proprietors of local stores (and a few New York&nsash;based e-tailers) pick out their favorite new arrivals.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese explore the funny side of financial depravity in The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Sting conquers writer’s block with his first new songs in a decade.
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Rachel Weisz, Daniel Craig, and Rafe Spall get entangled in Pinter’s Betrayal.
How Wangechi Mutu snipped and clipped her way from Nairobi to the walls of the Brooklyn Museum.
As the opera Anna Nicole makes its first trip to New York, its composer is having second thoughts.
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