Jon Kalish
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Canceled last year for only the second time ever because of the pandemic, New York City's storied Village Halloween Parade returns, partly due to one very generous fan.
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After a Vermont man was paralyzed from the chest down in an accident, he could only kayak if someone got him in and out of his boat. His neighbors built him a hoist so he can paddle whenever he likes.
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People in Little Haiti in New York City weigh in on the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
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Bob Fass hosted the influential New York City radio show Radio Unnameable for more than 50 years. It served as a megaphone for the 1960s counterculture and boosted folk and blues artists.
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Doonesbury was the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize for tackling social issues, politics and war. It all began as an irreverent strip in the Yale Daily News when Trudeau was a junior.
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New Yorkers look forward to the Greenwich Village Halloween parade every year. This year, some of the city's best out-of-work artists will create a miniature virtual parade, which will stream online.
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In 1959, Kent Garrett was one of 18 black students accepted into a freshman class of more than 1,000. It was an early form of affirmative action, and he chronicles his time on campus in a new book.
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Bob George's archive is an independent operation whose supporters have included David Bowie and Keith Richards. Now it's being forced to move due to rising rents in Manhattan.
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The Brooklyn-born Burgie studied at Juilliard and co-wrote many of the songs on Harry Belafonte's breakthrough album, Calypso, including his genre-defining hit, "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)."
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Paul Krassner coined the term Yippie and co-founded one of the most influential magazines of the 1960s counterculture, The Realist. Krassner died Sunday at the age of 87.