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Rural Alberta Advantage, Another Great Indie Band from Canada
Had a great time last night at a live music show put on by the Toronto trio, The Rural Alberta Advantage, my first time hearing them live after enjoying them the past few years on CBC Radio 3. They...
View ArticleLovely Snow Day in NYC
Early evening snowy walk in Riverside Park. About ten inches of unsullied white stuff underfoot. #PristinePark pic.twitter.com/EA7ITLU0F6— Philip Turner (@philipsturner) February 4, 2014 The snowy...
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NYC & Hudson River Views, March 5-6, 2015
Pictures taken on walks in my Manhattan neighborhood March 5-6, 2015. On Thursday, there was wind-driven snow from midnight till evening with about 7 inches accumulation, when I took the first two...
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Twilight Cruise on the Hudson and NY Harbor
My sister Pamela and her good friend Billy visited NY the past couple days, and last evening she took us on a Classic Harbor Line cruise in NY harbor with an AIA-certified guide, Scott Cook, who spoke...
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Seven Years On, Saying Bye Again to my Brother, Joel Turner
Just before it popped in to my Facebook feed today, this photo of my late brother Joel, a career bookseller—which ran with a Cleveland Plain Dealer obituary of him on this date in 2009—I happened to...
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Broadway Restaurant, a NYC institution on the Rebound
June 27 2018 Update Amid the tumult of today, with a Supreme Court vacancy opening alarmingly, I am excited to announce some positive news from my micro-locale: the operators of my favorite local...
View ArticleA Raucous Salute to Doctors, Nurses, Frontline Workers
Over the past seven weeks, most nights of the lockdown imposed during the pandemic, when 7pm rolls around—the time when New Yorkers have been saluting essential workers—I’ve been in my apartment on the...
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Sold—Public/Private: My Life with Joe Papp at the Public Theater by Gail...
Delighted to announce that our literary agency Philip Turner Book Productions has sold PUBLIC/PRIVATE: My Life with Joe Papp at the Public Theater by Gail Merrifield Papp to Applause Theater and Cinema...
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Ruth Gruber: Friend, Mentor, Surrogate Grandmother by M.G. Turner
Ruth Gruber April 2007 A few months ago, while undergoing an ultrasound for something disconcerting I’d found on my body—which mercifully turned out to be, officially, nothing—I was suddenly hit by a...
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Abandons Renovation of Metro Theater in NYC
@philipsturner Unfortunately yes. You can read our announcement here: http://t.co/oErOuiOUan — Alamo Drafthouse NYC (@AlamoNYC) December 9, 2013 Despite earlier reports from Austin, Texas-based Alamo...
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