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		<title>Go Light with Torrontes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentinean white goes perfect with warm winter By Josh Perilo I left the house on Tuesday to move my car and I wasn’t wearing a coat. Yes, this is the wine column, but I felt that sentence needed to be said. It’s both thrillingly amazing (considering the snow spanking we got last year) and very, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Series Features New York’s Most Macabre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Anam Baig Ronni Thomas, a filmmaker and oddity enthusiast, has created a new web series documenting the darkness, eccentricity and mystery of the uncharted and unimaginable happenings of New York City. Fittingly named The Midnight Archive, these videos boast an eclectic class of characters such as Sue Jeiven, a tattoo artist at East River [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Black History Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Black History Month is being celebrated all over the city, including many places uptown. Below are just a few of the highlights. Free at Lincoln Center Lincoln Center is staging free concerts this month for Black History Month. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis at the David Rubenstein Atrium, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaynor Doubles in Size with Early Childhood Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sean Creamer The Claremont Stables on West 89th Street served the Upper West Side for years, providing a means for city-dwellers to learn horseback riding. Now, the horses have long gone, but the building will still be used for education. The Stephen Gaynor School at 148 W. 90th St. recently announced it would reinvent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan to Change State’s Election Districts Draws Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Megan Bungeroth It happens once a decade and it’s never an easy process. In accordance with the state Constitution, the state Legislature is currently in the process of creating new district lines for the Assembly, state Senate and congressional representatives. The Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) has just released a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen of Retail on the Art of the Real Estate Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Vatisha Smith Faith Hope Consolo, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Retail,” has been a dominant force in Upper West Side commercial/retail real estate for many years. Before she became a real estate agent specializing in big-name realtors and property owners, Consolo sold cosmetics and worked in interior design. Real estate was not a field she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Week’s Economic Boon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Megan Bungeroth While some residents gripe about the unfavorable ramifications of having Fashion Week in their backyard, there are benefits to the community for hosting the event. In August 2011, the Fordham Consulting Group and Fordham University Graduate School of Business released an economic impact study outlining the effects of Fashion Week on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Week Nightmare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neighbors cry foul over takeover of neighborhood park By Megan Bungeroth For designers, buyers, reporters, photographers and clothes-conscious consumers the world over, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week conjures images of the latest and greatest designs paraded around in a swirl of parties and publicity. For residents of the area surrounding Fashion Week’s Lincoln Center home, however, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compiled by Megan Bungeroth Online Scammer Last week, a woman put up a Craigslist ad to sell some of her furniture. She received a response and a check for $2,830, well over her asking price, from a man who instructed her to keep a portion as payment and wire the balance to his shipping company. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westsidespirit.com/2012/01/26/crime-watch-5/</link>
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		<title>Notes From the Neighborhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compiled by Sam Blum, Megan Bungeroth and Sean Creamer Columbia’s Champ of the Courts Brian Barbour, a 6-foot-1 junior at Columbia, leads the university’s basketball team, the Lions, in scoring with 14.1 points per game. He’s been nominated for the Bob Cousy Award, given to the nation’s best point guard, and is one of the [...]]]></description>
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