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Billie Holiday Theatre gets $900,000 for new look
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New York Amsterdam News
11-09-2005
Now in its 34th season, the Billie Holiday Theatre in Restoration Plaza, at
1378 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, has recently received monies from the
Brooklyn borough president's office to renovate the theatre. On October 26,
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz presented the Billie Holiday
Theatre with a check for $900,000 to be used for desperately needed
renovations.
"This was a rehabbed building. It w...
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Billie Holiday Theatre gets $900,000 for new look
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; Armstrong, Linda New York Amsterdam News 11-09-2005 Now in its 34th season, the Billie Holiday Theatre in Restoration Plaza, at 1378 Fulton ... Yaa Asantewa and Carl Garrison. For tickets call 718-636-0918. Article copyright The Amsterdam News. V.96;
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Harlem Businesses Unite For A Holiday In Harlem, Offering Events And Special Discounts In Honor Of Billie Holiday
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; Since 1886, Harlem's best businesses have joined the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC) which is dedicated to community vitality. This November, the GHCC and some of Harlem's top businesses are saluting our own American icon, "Lady Day" by creating A "Holiday" in Harlem. Here's what the
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Cover Story: The Lady Vanishes Who stole Billie Holiday? She is feminist property because she was a black woman who did it her way. Her outsider-victim status made her a gay diva. And to straight, white hipsters, she's the sound of cool comfort. But, says Phil Johnson, the cultural appropriation has gone far enough. It's high time we saw her for what she was...
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IMPERFECT BEAUTY RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES AND EARS, THE IMAGES OF BILLIE HOLIDAY CHANGE A 10-DISC SET GETS DOWN TO THE SOUND OF A GENIUS IN FLOWER
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; First you notice the hissing, so let's get this out of the way: If you are going to listen to vintage Billie Holiday, you are going to have to put up with the imperfections of 1930s recordings. Remastering goes only so far, and then the process of removing background noise begins to purge the music
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Profile: CD-DVD by Billie Holiday is released
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; ... the only one traveling this way. How strange the road you love should be so easy. MONTAGNE: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. INSKEEP: And I'm Steve Inskeep. Content and Programming copyright 2005 National Public Radio, Inc. All rights ...
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BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LADY really sang the BLUES
Philadelphia Tribune, The
; When you think of great legendary musicians of the past, who do you think of? Maybe the Isley Brothers, The Temptations, or Stevie Wonder, but why don't we take it back a few more decades. Back to the 1940's and 1950's when there was a woman in the spotlight making memorable music. A woman that had
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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DAY OF TRIBUTE ARTISTS READY AN EVENING AT THE BOWL TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF BILLIE HOLIDAY.(U)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer HER EMOTIONAL HONESTY was as authentic as the gardenias she wore in her hair. Artists asked to ruminate on the intersection of life and art in the music of Billie Holiday point to the sense of truth imparted in highly personal interpretations of sometimes
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Arts: Billie and Lester against the world Forty years ago today, Billie Holiday died, four months after her frien d and collaborator, the saxophonist Lester Young. Theirs was an extraordinary relationship. By James Maycock
The Independent - London
; In Paris, a couple of weeks before his harrowing death in 1959, Lester Young spoke of Billie Holiday, mournfully commenting, "She's still my Lady Day." On 13 March, suffering from stabbing pains in the stomach, he impulsively returned to New York. On the aeroplane he began to vomit blood. Surviving
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HARLEM ANGEL; GO... to a concert Rain Pryor plays troubled jazz legend Billie Holiday.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; Byline: By SARAH BATLEY The ups and downs of singing legend Billie Holidays life and her struggle to cope with poverty, violence, racism, alcoholism, drug abuse and childhood prostitution are brought under the spotlight in a new musical. Rain Pryor is the Angel of Harlem in the show, which lands at
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BILLIE HOLIDAY: The most important recordings by the greatest female vocalist of all time are gathered for the first time in 20-CD boxed set
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; Washington Afro-American 10-19-2001 BILLIE HOLIDAY: The most important recordings by the greatest female vocalist of all time are gathered for the first time in 20-CD boxed set "How many Billie Holidays are there and which do you prefer? Elated or dour, funny or truculent, sweet or sour, our Lady
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