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Arthur Weinstein NY TIMES OBIT

July 15, 2008 – 9:55 am

Arthur Weinstein, Who Redesigned Nightlife in Manhattan, Dies at 60 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: July 13, 2008 In the glittery, manic, often ostentatiously naughty 1970s and ’80s, Arthur Weinstein was king of the night. His kingdom was a new breed of nightclubs that transcended disco balls, tired formulas and strobe lights to become ultra-hip destinations […]

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BET ON CRAZY 2 / SETTING UP

July 9, 2008 – 2:45 pm

The next morning I woke at 8am. Manny’s exchange opened at 9:30. I bathed in my kitchen, dressed in a midnight-blue pin-striped suit, threw on my leather coat, and walked over to Velseka’s Coffee Shop on 2nd Avenue. A light snow was falling without sticking to the sidewalk. I had $5 left from the $20 […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith – CHAPTER 1

July 30, 2007 – 5:54 am

ONE A scurry of claws scratched across the damp basement floor. The woman on the battered chair lifted her black stiletto heels in horror, but rats were the least of her problems. This afternoon her lover had suggested a rendezvous in Hamburg’s harbor district. She arrived in anticipation of a sordid indiscretion. Two men were […]

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Flight of Farangs

July 16, 2007 – 12:38 am

This low season appears to have reached previously unknown depths. The high air ticket costs have priced Thailand out of the budget of many tourists and the rising baht has decimated the ranks of the casual residents of Pattaya.  Everytime I enter a bar I feel like a RAF pilot returned to the barracks after […]

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