Sardis
Sardis, once the terminus of the Persian royal road from Susa (in modern Iran), was an ancient city in today's Turkey, famed as the capital of the kingdom of Lydia. The city is situated ...
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Vincent Sardi Jr., owner of Sardi's restaurant, the legendary Broadway watering hole where for decades the New York theater celebrated its opening nights, died Thursday at age 91.Sardi, who had bee...
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9:30 a.m. Design Trust for Public Space and the N.Y.C. Taxi & Limousine Commission release outline for the future of yellow cabs, Military Island, Broadway at 44th Street. 9:30 a.m. General m...
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Today is Friday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2008. There are 362 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 4, 1965, President Johnson outlined the goals of his Great Society in his S...
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European film and TV writers demonstrated Wednesday in support of their striking U.S. colleagues.Several dozen writers rallied in front of the headquarters of Britain's main union federation holdin...
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Forty-one New York and Los Angeles movie critics from Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker and Salon.com gathered at Sardi's Restaurant in Times Square Saturday night to vote on the top films of the year...
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An English springer spaniel with a preference for chicken-and-garlic treats prevented America's top dog event from turning into "The Cosby Show."Diamond Jim jumped into handler Kellie Fitzgerald's ...
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The New York Times as a copyboy in 1944, the uniformed elevator men wore white gloves, the desk editors donned green eye shades, and reporters making phone calls from the third-floor newsroom had t...
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Max Bialystock, the spark plug that drives "The Producers," is a New Yorker first _ and then he's Jewish, according to Mel Brooks, the man who created the rapscallion who uses money from little old...
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Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson outlived her husband, Lyndon, by more than 35 years, expanding on her White House efforts to carve her own legacy as an environmentalist.When she died July 11 at...
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World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a ...
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Sardis
Owner of NYC restaurant Sardi's dies
