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Celebrating Spring with Japanese Cherry Blossoms: A Brooklyn Tradition

Since 1982, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has celebrated Sakura Matsuri, a weekend festival showcasing both traditional and contemporary Japanese culture.

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Its got puppets and drag queens, what more could you ask?
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It's tiny compared to Barnes & Noble but that's part of the charm.
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You can eat or get a drink from the bar while practicing your backhand.
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Bridget Leahy  |  September 9, 2011 5:26 PM | Comments
Don't have tickets to the tents at Fashion Week? From art to film, get your fashion fix off the runway at a wide array of performing and visual arts events this fall.
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This week's edition of SundayArts includes a chat with Cynthia Rowley and a look at Manhattan's endangered Garment District.VIDEO
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John Farley  |  September 9, 2011 1:07 PM | Comments
Thirteen will premiere a new documentary dedicated to the men and women who arrived at the World Trade Center the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and chose to stay.VIDEO
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered in 2011 with a memorial on the National Mall in D.C. and a Broadway imagining of his last night before his assassination.
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Edwin Mohney  |  September 8, 2011 6:00 AM | Comments
A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) writes about the three sacred cows of an aspiring designer: sleep, coffee and Fashion Week.VIDEO
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Laura Vanderkam for City Journal  |  September 7, 2011 2:42 PM | Comments
Can the public-private model save neglected parks without rich neighbors?
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Bijan Rezvani  |  September 7, 2011 8:05 AM | Comments
The debut of new series of animated short films created by the national oral history project StoryCorps.VIDEO
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