Monthly Archives: March 2007

Dry Manhattan

By Administrator | Published: Thursday, March 22, 2007
This week’s Time Out New York features my interview with Michael Lerner, author of Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. For more on the book, here’s a link to Pete Hamill’s review in The New York Times Book Review.
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Betty Hutton, 1921-2007

By Administrator | Published: Thursday, March 15, 2007
Betty Hutton was considered “a brassy, energetic performer with a voice that could sound like a fire alarm,” but here’s a clip of the late chanteuse at a much different register: For more characteristic mania, see Betty with Dinah Shore. Betty Hutton, Film Star of ’40s and ’50s, Dies at 86 (NY Times)
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