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    Time Out New York / Issue 631 : Nov 1–7, 2007
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    Our editors chose the city’s most vital places, people and things—and then tracked down un-Googleable, ultra-valuable tips about each. Plus some quizzes to see what you already know.

    Screenings at Donnell Media Center, New York Public Library

    WHY ESSENTIAL:
    Though two of the center’s most requested movies are The Wizard of Oz and Fish Market, a 1955 documentary about the Fulton fishmongers, the center houses some 8,000 16mm films. And if you have an NYPL card, you can see double features like Fall of the House of Usher and The Blue Angel (both part of the recent “Featuring…Modernism in Motion” series) for—gasp!—free.

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    • 44021 D Thu, Sep 25, at 10:36am
      What white people will fall for.

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    • 44011 D Thu, Sep 25, at 10:36am
      Kiosk is hilarious. They were selling a package of dried plums for $15 that you can find 3 blocks south at hong kong supermarket for $2.

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      I am trying to find Peter Tear! Please forward to him.

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    • 1656 adam tobin Thu, Nov 01, 07, at 7:54pm
      Josh, it is true. X is not on the menu. I am really upset that Time Out printed my secret website for everybody to see. gugunnameable is so secret, you can't even view it on a regular computer -- the secret password is www.unnameablebooks.net

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    • 1665 josh Thu, Nov 01, 07, at 3:59pm
      The concept of this piece, as described, is excellent; the execution is terrible and misleading (per the description, anyway–it would have been a fine article properly described). A tip would be, for example: "order X at Pearl Oyster Bar, it's not on the menu, it's excellent, and you have to request it." Or a reservation password or somesuch.

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    • 1664 josh Thu, Nov 01, 07, at 3:55pm
      How is this an "ultra-valuable tip?" It's not even a "tip," it's a piece of trivia.

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    • 1660 eyeball hatred Thu, Nov 01, 07, at 2:05am
      url is indeed wrong. gugunameable books sell textbooks.

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