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Betty Corwin receives Lifetime Achievement Award for archiving thousands of NYC theater productions
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Betty Corwin is going to turn 97 this month, but she says she still feels like a baby. “If you feel young, you are young,” says the native New Yorker, enthusiastically. This month was an extra special one for Corwin. She received the Special Lifetime Achievement Award from theLeague of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW)for founding… Read more
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Author Bob Brody on “Playing Catch with Strangers”
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In“Playing Catch with Strangers,”an essay published in The New York Times in 2015, Bob Brody writes that he played catch with his father only once in his life. “That summer afternoon, I felt about as happy as I’d ever felt. That’s how it goes when you’re 8 years old and playing catch with your dad,”… Read more
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Charo at 66: New flamenco guitar album and prayers for Barcelona
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When asked for her full name, Charo is known tolaugh in her cheerful manner and ask, “Do you have time?” The Spanish-American actress, comedian, and flamenco guitarist was born in Murcia, Spain, and herfullgiven name is MarÃa del Rosario Mercedes Pilar MartÃnez Molina Baeza.Perhaps best known in the U.S. as the “Cuchi cuchi girl,” for… Read more
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Actor Ivonne Coll on playing the matriarch on ‘Jane the Virgin’ at 70
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Ivonne Coll is not a mother, or a grandmother, in real life, but she plays the role of both on television. Coll, otherwise known as Alba, plays the matriarch of her alternate reality home on The CW’s “Jane the Virgin.” There, the Puerto Rican actor plays the Venezuelan grandmother of Jane (Gina Rodriguez), and the… Read more
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How writing her life story led a woman to inner healing
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Maria Aponte was born and raised an only child in East Harlem, otherwise known as “El Barrio,” in New York City, to Puerto Rican parents. Because she lost her mother at 16, and her father at 22, loneliness was a battle she fought most of her life, but it was also what made her the… Read more