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Montclair Comedy Festival Returns From November 14th to 21st

There’s always something to do in Montclair, but if you’re looking for a good comedy show, we have something to add to your calendar. After a successful first year, the Montclair Comedy Festival will be returning from Saturday, November 14th, through Saturday, November 21st in downtown Montclair. It will feature 100+ performers and 12+ shows of stand-up, improv, sketch, musical comedy, and more. Read on for what to know about the Montclair Comedy Festival coming to downtown Montclair this November.

Montclair, NJ · 1d
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Mandatory

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Zohran Mamdani Takes on GTA 6 With Different Gaming Challenge

Zohran Mamdani has announced a video game development competition for young New Yorkers ahead of the highly anticipated GTA 6 release. The initiative aims to help aspiring developers create games and explore careers in New York City’s gaming industry. Zohran Mamdani launches NYC Game Jam The two-day NYC Game Jam will begin on Saturday, November […] The post Zohran Mamdani Takes on GTA 6 With Different Gaming Challenge appeared first on Mandatory .

New York, NY · 1d

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A Teenage Rembrandt Estimated at $800 in a New Jersey Auction Sold for $870,000

For decades it sat in a New Jersey family’s home as a dark little picture nobody thought much about. In 2015 a local auction house catalogued it as an anonymous Continental painting and estimated it at a few hundred dollars. It turned out to be one of the earliest known paintings by Rembrandt, made when he was a teenager.

Bloomfield, NJ · 1d
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Alpine Elects 'RHONJ' Newcomer To School Board: Meet Vanessa Barrera

Vanessa Barrera hasn't even made her "Real Housewives of New Jersey" debut yet, but she's already won a seat at a very different table: the Alpine Board of Education. Barrera, who joins Season 15 of the Bravo reality series as a friend of the cast, secured one of two open seats in the Tuesday, Nov. …

Alpine, NJ · 1d

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In 1929, the Loew’s Jersey Theatre opened to host legends like Frank Sinatra; nearly a century later, the historic landmark reopens as a 4,000-seat concert venue just 10 minutes from Wall Street

New Yorkers, the wait is officially over. The historic Loew’s Jersey Theatre is finally ready for its next act. Following a $130 million restoration , the nearly century-old landmark celebrated its ceremonial ribbon-cutting this week. It will officially open its doors to the public this weekend, capping off a four-decade preservation saga that saved the building from demolition. Originally opened in 1929, the venue was one of the nation’s five original ‘Wonder Theatres’. It is the only one located outside of NYC. After hosting legends like Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra , the theater fell into disrepair in the 1980s. Now, the historic Journal Square landmark is gleaming once again. A historic restoration The revitalized space pairs the opulent detail of its original movie-palace architecture with top-tier modern production capabilities. Some of the restoration work took place 70 feet above the audience , with crews operating from extensive scaffolding to preserve the theater’s intricate details. The venue can now accommodate between 2,600 and 4,000 guests , making it the biggest indoor venue (non-arena) in New Jersey and a major new player in the NYC metro concert landscape. Restoration efforts will even continue into next year. The team plans to reinstall

Jersey City, NJ · 2d

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Emma Stebbins, New York’s First Woman to Win a Public Sculpture Commission

Emma Stebbins was born in New York City in 1815, the daughter of a banker, and trained as a painter. By 1843 she was an associate of the National Academy of Design. In 1857, in her early 40s, she moved to Rome, where she turned to sculpture and joined the American and British artists working in marble there. There she met the American actress Charlotte Cushman, who became her partner for the rest of Cushman’s life.

New York, NY · 2d

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Barbara Ingram School for the Arts students invited to perform at Carnegie Hall

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Vocal students from Barbara Ingram School for the Arts have been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City in May 2027, joining student musicians from across the country for a performance under the direction of Grammy-nominated conductor James Jordan. Washington County Public Schools...

Hagerstown, MD · 1d

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A Brooklyn Artist Built A Tower To Memorialize Victims Of Road Crashes

The landscape of New York City is really a crashscape. Brooklyn artist Michael Freedman has made the horror of road violence a three-dimensional experience with Crashscape, a new app that superimposes virtual images of crashes onto the very roadways where they occurred. Point your phone at any intersection and Freedman’s...

New York, NY · 1d

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Ronnie Wood Announces 2027 Beacon Theatre Show

Ronnie Wood And His Ammo Band have today announced a show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on March 22nd, 2027. Joining Ronnie on stage will be Grammy-nominated singer and Rolling Stones collaborator Chanel Haynes, as Wood and company showcase his remarkable musical legacy. Following critically acclaimed performances...

New York, NY · 22h

Washington Square News

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‘Time is of the essence’: Residents urge city officials to preserve Village area as historic district

As a young adult in the 1980s, Joel Loventhal cherished going to the same used bookstores in Greenwich Village that his father would frequent four decades prior. But now, many of those businesses are gone, he says, pushed out by the neighborhood’s high rent costs. “I’ve avoided walking that...

New York, NY · 1d

Time Out

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A 750-person music venue is opening inside Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar Refinery

The next time someone tells you to meet them by the Domino smokestack, they might be giving you directions to a gig. A new independent music venue called Domino will open inside Williamsburg’s former sugar refinery in April 2027, bringing concerts and club nights to the waterfront. The venue will occupy the ground floor of the landmarked building at 20 River Street, right next to Domino Park. It will seat 750 people, with the entrance at the foot of the refinery’s 240-foot chimney. The space will have a ramp at the entrance, elevators and bars on the main floor and mezzanine. Behind the projec...

Brooklyn, NY · 21h

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Eric Carle’s Modernistic Art, and His Inspirations.

At last I saw the exhibit of Eric Carle’s modernistic art. Just wow! His inspirations were far more than I knew. There has not been a book or story that changed my life. But there was Miss Frickey, my first grade teacher in Syracuse NY, who changed my life by telling my parents to support and nourish my love for making pictures.

New York, NY · 1d

WXXI News

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Borinquen Dance Theatre to usher in a new era of the company

After 45 years as the artistic director for Borinquen Dance Theatre, its founder Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez is retiring in December.

Rochester, NY · 1d

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NY string quartet visits St. Francis students

Beckley, WV (WOAY): This afternoon, a New York string quartet paid a visit to students at St. Francis de Sales School in Beckley. Pizzi Strings presented segments of both classical and modern pieces in an interactive demonstration, teaching the kids about different types of string instruments as well as the different emotions that music can express.

Beckley, WV · 1d

Gothamist

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Amtrak's Penn Station plan could funnel taxpayer money to new venue for James Dolan

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a new design for Penn Station. The federal government's plan to rebuild Penn Station would require the purchase of a theater attached to the west side of Madison Square Garden. [ more › ]

New York, NY · 7d