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The Scandinavian Choral Festival will begin with a choral singing contest at Guildhall between 7.30pm and 9pm on Friday, with the choirs each performing two songs inside the civic building.

A search for places to stay in New York City via Airbnb returns plenty of results, despite the practice of short-term rentals being found to be illegal under city and state law.

Some food items elicit intense reactions. New Yorkers trash any pizza from anywhere outside of their dear city limits.

The site where Mark Carson was shot on West 8th Street, New York. Police say the killing was a hate crime.

This musical caf is a one-man operation now, but the charm of the place hasn't been affected much by being downsized.

The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel will welcome back Tony Award-Winner Lea Salonga to the Caf Carlyle for her highly anticipated three-week engagement.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

Gathering your thoughts when writing a novel can be a tricky process. Which is why many of the greats made sure they planned their plots beforehand.

Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered to remember Mark Carson , a 32-year-old gay Brooklyn man who was shot and killed in New York's Greenwich Village Friday in the fifth hate crime to plague the city this month.

The Wall Street Journal : Barbecue is such a sacred cow of American cuisine that compelling new approaches have been slow in coming.

Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker talks about the federal stop and frisk trial and the legal issues raised by the case here in New York City, as well as other national legal news.

"Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's... "Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records ... (more)

Foxborough The grand opening of Cupcake Charlie's at Patriot Place on Saturday, May 18, will be a family event offering cupcake giveaways, face painting, a photo booth and a DJ.

Legendary choreographer George Balanchine once said, "ballet is woman," and that seems to be the case, considering the scarcity of boys aspiring to become ballet dancers compared to the legions of girls.

A Staten Island supporter of the blind cleric, Omar Abdel Rahman, who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing has been arrested as part of a sweeping, multimillion-dollar scheme to flood New York with untaxed cigarettes, the state attorney general's office announced Thursday.

Tourists are crowding onto a Bronx bus tour that promises "a ride through a real New York City 'GHETTO' " - and local politicians are furious.

Setting the stage as the perfect preshow for a Broadway matinee, Madame Tussauds New York is offering theatergoers free admission to the wax attraction for kids when accompanied by a full-paying adult and presentation of a Broadway show ticket.

A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate... Officials investigating a train collision in Connecticut have ruled out foul play and are studying a rail fracture where a derailed ... (more)

Summer in Little Italy will officially start on Saturday, May 25, with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 12 Noon marking the opening of the Mulberry Street Pedestrian Mall, it was announced by Ralph Tramontana, President of the Little Ital Merchants Association which has operated the Mall since its creation 25 years ago.

In May, it was announced that Ghostlight Records will preserve the hit Second Stage Theatre production of The Last Five Years , created and directed by Jason Robert Brown .