Russ & Daughters: A Taste of Appetizing | May 13, 2009
Astor Center | 399 Lafayette Street | NY, NY | 6:30 - 8:30 pm
For tickets: 212.674.7501 or order online at astorcenter.com
On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, Astor Center will host Russ & Daughters: A Taste of Appetizing, an intimate tasting that will span 100 years of [...]

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Laren Spirer posted a great interview with Niki Russ Federman on Serious Eats.
“The food world is so romanticized these days, but it’s impossible to sustain quality and excellence if you’re not willing to get your hands dirty (or in our case, fishy).”
In the article, accompanied by a photo of her best “fish face,”  Niki talks [...]

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Neil LaBute’s Reason to Be Pretty opens on Broadway tonight.  Taylor Antrim interviewed Piper Perabo, for Men’s Vogue, about her long-awaited Broadway debut:
“With breezy sophistication, she offers critical assessments of the latest New York museum shows, the pace of gentrification on the Lower East Side, and where to get the best pickled herring in the [...]

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Friends and neighbors of Russ & Daughters are up to great things. Here’s a Russ & Daughters To Do List for tonight.

The shiny new 92Y Tribeca presents Comedy 2.0: Video Series on the Web: a panel and clip show moderated by Gabe Delahaye and featuring the creators content for The Burg, Barely Political, College Humor, [...]

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Join Niki Russ Federman TONIGHT at 6:30 p.m. at the Tenement Museum. Niki will talk with photographers James and Karla Murray about their book Storefront: The Disappearing Face of New York.
The Tenement Museum is located at 108 Orchard Street, just below Delancey Street. The event is free and will take place in The Museum Shop, [...]

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Friends and neighbors of Russ & Daughters are doing great things.  So here’s an R&D To Do List for the next few days.  Be sure to say “hello” if you see us at any of these events.

TONIGHT.  Ben Karlin edited a hilarious book - Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me - and tonight [...]

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Tomorrow night, Friday, December 5, Astor Center will host an evening of New York City food history, delicious savories, and good wine at a book release party for Gastropolis: Food & New York City. Astor Center writes:

“Gastropolis is a collection of essays about our city’s rich culinary heritage that includes reflections on being a [...]

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New Yiddish Rep, “The Little Theater With a Big Mouth,” has two shows this weekend at The Community Synagogue, 325 East 6th Street, NY, NY.  Contact them at 917.670.1631 and reserve tickets online.
New Yiddish Rep has an interesting approach to the tough task of reinvigorating an art form that once thrived in our neighborhood on [...]

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