Articles Tagged with #newyorknewyork
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Late Night Sports Radio
Before Sunrise, Nobody Cares About Tennis
Health care for the elderly, automobiles, insurance, and frozen hamburgers—that just about covers it. Rubinson returned to the air. She was excited about the NFL preseason games and...
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Ghosts of New York
The Lost Pondshiners
New York’s Hudson Valley has long been haunted—by headless horsemen, and living terrors, too. In the hills between Poughkeepsie and Albany existed a clan of artisans known for their semi-wild existence—and for being a real-life connection to the region’s supernatural past.
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Late Night Sports Radio
Into the Heart of Things
Though I grew up in a town of 9,000 on North Carolina’s coast, I’ve felt at home in New York since I was a teenager in the 198...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Homage to Terrence Malick
It takes a dirt road to make it to our house. We’re 15 miles downriver from where I grew up. Today the population of the surrounding Hyde County is...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Everyone’s Relative
The UNC Tar Heels have fired football coach Butch Davis and the airwaves are lit up. 11:57 p.m. I’m sitting in my home office listening to WFAN...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Voices in the Country
I’m in rural Chatham County, NC, with three acres, heavy woods with eight kinds of trees, and a creek. Crickets, cicadas, and tree frogs are chiming—the...
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Belly Aching
The Hand That Feeds You
Though you can still count on it for antibiotic-free cheese, the farmers’ market has become a macrocosm of first-world food neuroses. True stories from behind the rustic wax-paper-lined baskets.
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Men Are From Mars, Pugs Are From Chelsea
Drawn to Dogs
Pet people and non-pet people are different breeds for whom inter-species communication can be impossible. Then along comes the ugliest dog in the world. A study of one heart’s redoing.
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New York, New York
Here Is Everything I Learned in New York City
Five years in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Several violent attacks—in other cities. A daily attempt to be the best, which is never a good idea. Nine lessons from a mini-lifetime in the Big Apple.
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Late Night Sports Radio
The Best Viola Player in the New York Phil Is a Bum
It’s 3:43 a.m. and I’m listening to the overnight call-in program on WFAN sports radio out of New York, 660 on the AM dial. The station&rsquo...
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New York, New York
From the Mixed-Up Files of the New York Public Library
As some Christians prepared for the Apocalypse, 500 questers spent Friday night locked inside the New York Public Library with game designer Jane McGonigal.
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New York, New York
Watching for the Buffleheads
New Yorkers may think they are surrounded by skyscrapers, but what’;s really around is ducks. Identifying the waterbirds of Manhattan.