Word: uptown
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...reissuing of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and many of Hughes's works (he indeed is solely responsible for launching Hughes's major publishing career). As the letters between him and Hughes attest, Van Vechten seemed genuinely enamored with the black culture thriving Uptown. Nevertheless, this same man outraged many in the black intellegentsia when wrote a work entitled Nigger Heaven, a provocatively named, mediocre book that contained depictions many critics found offensive. The consequence of this negative reception was the sealing of Van Vechten's reputation as a ruthless exploiter of Harlem's culture...
...could morph into a neighborhood, Bill Clinton would be Harlem. So when the former President decided to forsake expensive and unseemly midtown-Manhattan office space and set up shop uptown, at 55 West 125th St., in the most famous African-American area in the country, one knew that it was a personal decision, not just a politically clever...
...looking for fresh ideas in theater, I'd suggest forgetting Albee and traveling a few blocks uptown, to see Reba McEntire in the Broadway revival of "Annie Get Your Gun." Sure, this Irving Berlin classic is about as mainstream as theater gets (though Graciela Daniele's tasteful update, which originally starred Bernadette Peters, goes a long way to neutralizing the politically incorrect treatment of Indians). But a country singer playing Annie Oakley? It's a notion so obvious and unexpected that it has the shock of the revolutionary. The real shock, though, is how well Reba pulls...
...spent almost 20 years in corporate jobs. On a lark she registered in a millinery class at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and 10 years later she had a career doing what she always loved best - working with her hands. Her designs reflect her cross-section of customers, from uptown matrons to Japanese tourists, and she asserts, "There really is no substitute for a handmade hat." Feinman also stocks modestly priced jewelry, bags, scarves and gloves. Custom hats are available for 10 percent extra...
...night out with Dave, who's just out of the Coast Guard and looking for trouble. We start out at the Village Idiot drinking the bar wine - always a mistake. Find ourselves at the Crystal Ballroom, one of the last true bum bars on the Bowery, where a slumming uptown bartender has finagled a cheap P.A. and convinced some downtown bands to play. We switch to the gin I have in a hip flask. Kim, lead singer of Da Willys, throws herself to the floor in the middle of a an uptempo version of "Last Train to Clarksville". She moves...