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Culture
New York culture, entertainment, people, community, events and the moments shaping how we live now.
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Global Citizen Festival Canceled as Extreme Weather Threatens New York
Global Citizen canceled its September 26 Central Park festival as dangerous wind and heavy rain threatened New York. Ticket refunds will be automatic.
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Chaka Khan Brought ‘Chakzilla’ to Aman New York, and the Album Came Ready to Move
Chaka Khan welcomed her first album in seven years with a listening party at Aman Jazz Club, connecting Chakzilla to New York’s living Black-music network.
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Monday in New York: Climate Week Opens and CultureCon Maps Brooklyn
Climate Week NYC opens with fashion and culture on the agenda, Tatcha brings a beauty pause to Grand Central, and CultureCon maps its October Brooklyn campus.
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Sunday in New York: Harlem’s Parade, Everyday People, Secret Garden and Brooklyn Book Festival
As Harlem’s African American Day Parade runs until 6 p.m., Sunday continues with Everyday People at 99 Scott, Secret Garden and Brooklyn Book Festival online.
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Heather Alicia Simms Steps Into a New Broadway Chapter With ‘School Girls’
As Jocelyn Bioh’s celebrated comedy arrives on Broadway, Obie winner Heather Alicia Simms takes on Headmistress Francis in a production already drawing strong preview-period audience response.
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NBC Turns 100 at The Paley Museum With a Three-Floor New York Takeover
NBC100: A Century Together opens today at The Paley Museum with more than 75 artifacts, interactive sets and a century of television history across three floors.
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Lil’ Kim’s ‘Hard Core’ Gets the Listening-Room Treatment in Bed-Stuy Tonight
Adanne Bookshop turns Lil’ Kim’s 1996 debut Hard Core into a live Bed-Stuy conversation about power, fashion, sexuality and the legacy women in rap are still negotiating.
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Harlem’s Black & African Literature Festival Opens Today With Toni Morrison, Poetry and a Global Black World
The New York Black & African Literature Festival opens September 18 at Harlem Stage with Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, an opening-night poetry performance and three days of Black literary conversation.
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Bed-Stuy Is Putting Ntozake Shange’s Name on the Block Saturday
Brooklyn will honor Ntozake Shange on September 19 with a street co-naming and historic landmark reveal featuring Carl Hancock Rux, Lynn Nottage, Trazana Beverley and more.
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Noche Latina, Then Fan Appreciation: The Liberty Host Atlanta Twice at Barclays Next Week
The Liberty host the Atlanta Dream twice at Barclays Center: Noche Latina Night on Monday, September 21, and Fan Appreciation Night on Wednesday, September 23.