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See High Notes, Blue Notes and Honky Tonk Art Exhibition at Aloft Harlem

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Aloft Harlem Hotel features an exhibition of a solo artist each month and that practice continues this month with Charly Palmer’s High Notes, Blue Notes and Honky Tonk Exhibition on view at the Aloft Harlem from February 16-March 14, 2012.

The exhibition features 15 medium-sized paintings of seminal figures who have shaped music history and have inspired the artist, Charly Palmer.
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Harlem school slated for artists’ housing

Monday, February 20, 2012
Artspace, a Minneapolis-based arts organization that seeks to build affordable live/work space for artists, has joined forces with a Harlem community development organization called El Barrio’s Operation Fightback to transform an East Harlem elementary school into a 90-unit affordable apartment complex for artists, the New York Times reported.
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Technology incubators heading to Harlem

Monday, February 20, 2012
By Miles Johnson
Spectator Staff Writer

With two incubators scheduled to open in Harlem and another hoping to join them, Manhattan’s high-tech wave might be making its way uptown.
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A Gathering around coffee in celebration of Black History Month

Thursday, February 16, 2012
As part of ADC’s continuing partnership with Starbucks via our Community Store at 125th St. & Lenox Ave, you are invited to:

Join us for a gathering around coffee in celebration of Black History
Month. Starbucks will host a tasting Special Reserve Coffee, Ethiopia Harrar with
our Community Partners, the Abyssinian Development Corporation.

Where: Here, at the Harlem Community Store
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For a Harlem Landmark, Last Legs or First Steps?

Thursday, February 16, 2012
It’s possible that the old Mount Morris Bank Building at Park Avenue and 125th Street has never looked sorrier. And that’s saying a lot, since the abandoned building — an official city landmark — has been in a downward spiral for four decades, including the demolition of its upper floors in 2009 before they collapsed on their own.
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Sleep In & Eat with Ristorante Settepani's Brunch Menu

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but sometimes you just don't feel like waking up early to eat it. By the time you roll out of bed it is probably closer to lunch time anyway, but you really aren't craving a sandwich. How do you fix this dilemma?

Combining the elements of breakfast and lunch as a mid-morning meal, Ristorante Settepani offers diners an exquisite brunch menu. Many people associate having brunch with the weekends, which is perfect for the restaurant's Mediterranean Brunch on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Whitney Houston Remembered in Harlem, Tri-State

Tuesday, February 14, 2012
By Andrew Siff | Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012

Harlem's 125th Street became an impromptu memorial site for Whitney Houston Monday, a destination not just for New Yorkers to mourn the death of a pop superstar but to celebrate the music that touched so many.

Among the dozens singing and dancing were Keisha Armstead and her daughter Aviana Collado, two generations touched by the music of Houston.
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Harlem charter school fights closure, gains DOE renewal

Monday, February 13, 2012
By Avantika Kumar
Spectator Staff Writer
Published February 7, 2012

A West Harlem secondary school once slated for possible closure by the Department of Education has gotten a second chance.

Opportunity Charter School, located on 113th Street between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. boulevards, was added in November to a list of schools at risk of being closed by the DOE, along with two other West Harlem schools on the same block.
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Forty years after his death, an Uptown tribute to ‘60s jazz trumpet great Lee Morgan

Monday, February 13, 2012
Lee Morgan blazed through the 60’s jazz world like musical wildfire.

Mentored by Clifford Brown, Morgan was 18 years old when he joined Dizzy Gillespie’s big band in 1956. A top trumpet player, Morgan worked and recorded with the jazz elite; Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Lonnie Liston Smith, Elvin Jones, and Clifford Jordan to name just a few.
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Harlemites Pay Tribute to Music Icon Whitney Houston

Sunday, February 12, 2012
The music diva was mourned at the landmark marquee at the Apollo Theater in Harlem called her “A True Music Icon.”

On Sunday afternoon, a bouquet of pink roses was at the entrance, attached to a sign reading “RIP Whitney.” Also written on the sign were part of the lyrics to “Yes, Jesus Loves Me,” a gospel tune that Houston sang in her last public performance during a pre-Grammy party.

Harlem’s Sean Combs recalled sitting beside her at a BET Awards ceremony.
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