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THINKING OF SELLING? WELL THINK BEFORE YOU ACT.
Feb 28, 2014 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
REAL ESTATE  So you tired of shovelling, want to downsize?  Before you jump to conclusions, or even take an apartment, think slowly please. If you go to rent an apartment, 96% are on the second flo...
St. Stan's Rosary Alter Society Annual Champagne Brunch
Feb 25, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 84 84 recommendations | email to a friend
Sunday, March 30, 2014  12:00 PM Noon St. Stan's - 57-15 61st Street, Maspeth 11378 Delicious Food - Great Prizes - Unlimited Champagne!  Call the Rectory for tickets, which are $17.00.  718-326-21...
A Step-by-Step Guide on Changing Home Door Locks
Feb 24, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 570 570 recommendations | email to a friend
Moving to a new apartment or a newly-acquired home sure is exciting and thrilling for a lot of reasons. You are finally in your own place! While moving to your own place sure is a thrilling experie...
Identity Theft Prevention!
Feb 21, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 134 134 recommendations | email to a friend
On Sunday, March 2nd the Crime Prevention Section will host it's fourth Identity Theft Prevention Event at Gateway Center, 501 Gateway Drive, Brooklyn, NY from 10AM-2PM.  WE have partnered with Lio...
Timing Is Everything
Feb 21, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 379 379 recommendations | email to a friend
     While I was living in Nashville, I was continually learning about different plants and flowers that were native to the region. As I walked through a field one day, I spotted a cluster of daint...
Resorts World Casino Hosts Mid-Winter Food Tasting Benefitting City Harvest
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 152 152 recommendations | email to a friend
Join Resorts World Casino New York City Wednesday, February 26, 2014, from 7:00 p.m-9:00 p.m at the Mid-Winter Taste for City Harvest, a special tasting event featuring food, wine, cocktails and ce...
PAL Tournament of Champions Games Day
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
500 PAL youngsters, from all five boroughs of NYC compete in city-wide tournaments during a fun-filled day of games and laughter at the Police Athletic League's annual Tournament of Champions event...
Protect your company from discrimination complaints and lawsuits
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 177 177 recommendations | email to a friend
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) reported it obtained a record $372.1 million in monetary relief for victims of private sector employment discrimination in year ending 2013...
Interview to author Tony Napoli.
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 192 192 recommendations | email to a friend
Recently I published a review on the popular book “My Father, My Don,” A Son’s Journey from Organized Crime to Sobriety, and I am now pleased to offer our readers an interview to the author, Tony N...
FREE Dental Emergency Day!
Feb 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 186 186 recommendations | email to a friend
February is Dental Health Month.  To promote Dental Awareness and to offer help to the community, Dr. Khaimov is sponsoring a FREE Dental Emergency Treatment Day on THURSDAY, FEB. 27TH, 2014 10AM-4...

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Pat Pilla
Baker turns passion into a profession with cheesecake balls
For New Hyde Park resident Pat Pilla, baking has always been her passion, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that she pursued it professionally and started Cheebonnet. She set out to make a delici...
Mar 05, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louis Armstrong Museum prepares for new facility
In 2013, the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona reached a decade of celebrating the legendary jazz musician's career and life in Queens. To further enhance the legacy of Armstrong, the museum i...
Mar 05, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Q&A with Brooklyn band WORKOUT
In Brooklyn, the sounds of rock and roll in its purest form is often lost in the over-saturation of synthesized and electronic beats and club music in night clubs and concert venues. Jack Killen, o...
Mar 04, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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T.J. Fox
Close to “home”: Queens Singer-Songwriter T.J. Fox
Faithful readers of our papers may have first heard the name TJ Fox within our sports pages a few years back. The Glendale native was once one of the aces of the Monsignor McClancy pitching staff. ...
Feb 26, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Q&A with Brooklyn singer/songwriter Aisha Eustache
Oklahoma City native Aisha Eustache moved to NYC chasing the lights of Broadway. After finding success playing a major role the Broadway National tour of Aida from 2000 to 2004, Eustache later left...
Feb 19, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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Q&A with Brooklyn rapper Silent Knight about new band
Brooklyn-born rapper Jason Fraticelli, better known by his stage name Silent Knight, joined The Band Called Fuse as their lead M.C. a little over a year ago, and ever since he has helped grow and d...
Feb 12, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 67 67 recommendations | email to a friend
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NYC-based reggae band releases debut LP
Q&A with InDaze about the band and philosophy on Brooklyn music culture
Feb 05, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 79 79 recommendations | email to a friend
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Q&A with Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds
Arleigh Kincheloe is the front-woman for eight-piece band, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, a dream she has worked for since childhood. In 2012, the band’s trajectory was thrown into high gear a...
Jan 29, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 96 96 recommendations | email to a friend
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Shelly Bhushan
LIC singer/songwriter Shelly Bhushan
Q&A with Queens artist about her road to independence
Jan 22, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 110 110 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hugh Pool
The road to recording in Williamsburg
Q and A with Excello co-owner Hugh Pool
Jan 22, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 106 106 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hillary Capps releases her first full-length album
Q&A with a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter
Jan 08, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 143 143 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hillary Barleaux
Singer-songwriter Hillary Barleaux releases her first album
Hillary Barleaux grew up in the small town of Walton in Delaware County. Both of her parents were writers, her father at GQ Magazine and her mother a stay-at-home mom and freelancer for numerous ma...
Jan 02, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 154 154 recommendations | email to a friend
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Erin Barra and…
Brooklyn-based electronic artist reaches out to the youth
Dec 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 159 159 recommendations | email to a friend
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Q&A with Brooklyn-based Butcher Knives
The makings of an eclectic punk band
Dec 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 182 182 recommendations | email to a friend
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Q&A with singer-songwriter Nina Yasmineh
Whether through coincidence or fate, Nina Yasmineh recently received the inspiration she needed to record her latest Seven Years EP in her Bushwick apartment. Her subtle and often authoritative voc...
Dec 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 200 200 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pro-Russia forces mount pressure on Ukrainians

A Ukrainian officer stands outside the gate of a military base at the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea, Ukraine, Saturday, March 8, 2014. A Ukrainian officer at the military base said that pro-Russia soldiers crashed a truck through its gates late on Friday in an attempt to take it over. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow mounted pressure on Ukraine Saturday, with Russian foreign minister denouncing the new Ukrainian authorities as puppets in the hands of armed radicals, and pro-Russia forces in Crimea trying to flush Ukrainian soldiers out of the few military bases still under their control.


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China-bound Malaysian jet vanishes with 239 aboard
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Search and rescue crews across Southeast Asia scrambled to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday with 239 people aboard.
2014-03-08 04:53:15 -0500
Ukraine will not give up Crimea: acting foreign minister
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's acting foreign minister said on Saturday his country would not give up Crimea and would do all in its power to resolve the crisis over the Black Sea peninsula peacefully. "Crimea is and will be Ukrainian territory and we will not give up Crimea to anyone," Andriy Deshchytsia told a news conference in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Referring to deaths this year during protests against Ukraine's now deposed leader, Viktor Yanukovich, he said: "We are putting all our efforts into solving this matter through diplomacy - we have already had too many victims. ...
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