UPTOWNflavor

The New York Times has reviewed some of the art events currently on stage in Harlem. If you were in the audience, give us your reviews, UPTOWN flavor style!

Theater
WEBEIME by The Negro Ensemble Company, @ The Harlem School of the Arts
“The Negro Ensemble Company, hoping to sink roots in Harlem, is announcing itself with a distinctive show [...]

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On Saturday, April 12, 2008 the Coalition to Save Harlem will stage a massive demonstration as part of its ongoing campaign against the rezoning of 125th Street. HANDS ACROSS HARLEM will join organizations and individuals in a human chain across the length of Harlem’s Main Street, showing that the true River-to-River plan should be designed by Harlem’s people.
HANDS ACROSS HARLEM [...]

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If you love ”Everybody Hates Chris“ and can’t believe that the role played by actress Tishina Arnold as Chris’ Mom is humanly possible, then this book signing is for you!  Chris Rock’s real mom, Rose, will be a Hue-Man Books this Friday at 6 p.m.
 
 More than just a pretty face and definitely not the airhead Hilary Banks that she played on the long running “Fresh [...]

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While we all know the Dutch origins of Harlem how many can say they knew of its Finnish roots?  There were once 10 Finnish businesses along the 125th Corridor.  Read more about it here. [Villagesoup.com] 

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Listen to Wynter Gordon - Surveillance

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Not everyone is thrilled about Major League Baseball (MLB) coming to Harlem.  Diane DeGrassi writes about MLB scoring a financial homerun by the time all the corporate welfare (tax abatements, incentives and bonds) has been tallied up and accounted.  Read the scathing article she wrote for Sportscolumn.com.
It is bad enough that much of MLB’s revenues come [...]

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Previews start : 12th April 2008
Opening night : 30th April 2008
Limited engagement until : 20th July 2008

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The Classical Theatre of Harlem Presents
EMANCIPATION
A New Play by Ty Jones
Directed by Christopher McElroen
 
Performances Begin on April 10th at The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center at the historic Audubon Ballroom 3940 Broadway (between 165th and 166th Street).
Opening night is scheduled for Thursday, April 17th and the show will run through [...]

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Would the real heir to East Harlem’s famous Patsy’s please stand up! A jury in Brooklyn Federal court is deciding over the naming rights of East Harlem’s famous pizzeria between two eateries both claiming to be the real deal.[NYDailyNews]
Some residents worry that the re-zoning plans may worsen Harlem’s already infamously high [...]

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A smart, gregarious, free-spirited woman, Zora Neale Hurston fit into both the intellectual flowering of uptown artists in the 1920s and the larger image of that decade as an era when the good times ended sooner than anyone imagined.
 
ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN. 
Airs Wednesday, April 9 @ 9 pm, Ch. 13

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