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To Do Friday: Get Your Kicks

We’re skipping Black Friday—it’s worth paying the not-marked-down price on just about every gift we’re buying, just to avoid getting physically pushed to the ground in the checkout line at the Astor Place Kmart—but we can’t help getting caught up in the Christmas spirit. Off we go to Radio City Music Hall (what is it Read More

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The Rockettes: Kids Captivated, Adults Skeptical

It would appear that there is an unwritten rule in show business which states that anything related to the festive season must be as suffocatingly cheesy as possible, and The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular at Radio City certainly delivers. In a show consisting of live camels onstage, 3-D interludes and costumes that made Joseph’s Technicolor Dreamcoat look like a potato sack, the all singing, all dancing troupe undeniably put on a show. But that show felt a bit like being on an acid trip in Lapland. Read More