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Opening Day: The New Meadowlands

Jul 28, 2011 2 Comments by

by Mike Palladino It just seemed right that my beloved New York Giants would open up their new stadium (and the 2010 season) against the Carolina Panthers – a team that improperly closed out the old stadium with a complete and utter beat down, further cementing the lackluster 2009 NYG season. The Giants defense – [...]

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You’re Not at Shea Anymore Dorothy

May 11, 2011 No Comments by

Mets Opening Day 2009 It was a brand new stadium, first home game ever there. Mets had a great ceremony. I was in 304 for that game. I really enjoyed the whole atmosphere of the whole stadium. The Mets started the year off before that against the Reds and Braves, so it wasn’t there first [...]

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The 20 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century

May 10, 2011 No Comments

By Melanie McEwen It was Dec.’99 and Sports Illustrated was getting the Greatest Athletes from the 20th Century together. Awards and applause for everyone. I remember this stub mostly for the respect that went out for Muhammad Ali. Lucky enough to be there as the guest of a family member, this was a real treat. [...]

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Spiderrock – Touring Navajo Country

May 03, 2011 No Comments

by Donald M. I took off sometime to drive around the Southwest and experience American as far away from culture of NYC as I could without leaving the USA. There are a few places you can still go discover another way of life in the America and the Southwest is one of them. As I [...]

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Pantera – Stepping up from the club circuit

Apr 04, 2011 No Comments

by Albert Fox This ticket was for a Pantera show at the Arcadia Theater in Dallas on July 2, 1988. This was the first show ever that Pantera sold tickets through Ticketmaster for. They always played in clubs before this. I saw Darrell Abbott later that year at a guitar shop in Dallas and he [...]

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All I wanted was to see the Red Sox lose….

Apr 02, 2011 No Comments

First I’m a Yankee fan; detest the Red Sox Nation, and not a Mets supporter. With that out of the way a friend and I decided to try to get tickets to the World Series, what the hell we live in the NYC metropolitan area. Using the ancient technology, land line phones we call the [...]

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Jeter’s First Grand Slam (who said he chokes in the clutch!)

Mar 08, 2011 No Comments

We waited and waited for Derek Jeter, then he finally does it on a Saturday afternoon June 18, 2005 game at the old Yankee Stadium against the NL Cubbies. In the bottom of the 6th with 1 out he hits his 1st Grand Slam. He had been at bat 135 times with the bases loaded [...]

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Daniel Auber’s opera Marco Spada

Mar 03, 2011 No Comments

When studying in Roma, for a class evening out we when to the Roma Opera to see the original cast in the Pierre Lacotte reconstruction of Maziler’s choreography ballet of the 1857 Daniel Auber’s opera Marco Spada. It premiered on March 15, 1981; we attended the March 21, 1981 performance. The original cast included Nureyev [...]

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Thanks Liza – Blind date leads to 20 years of marriage

Feb 08, 2011 No Comments

I was working for an Architectural firm in Westchester County, NY that had the contract to redesign and update the County Center in White Plains, NY. When the project was completed the County held a Gala Celebration Concert headlining Liza Minnelli on April 30, 1988. I asked a friend if she knew anyone who would [...]

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Cosi Fan Tutte – It’s Opera.

Feb 01, 2011 No Comments

Cosi Fan Tutte was the first and second to last opera I have seen. I can say I’m not a fan of the opera, but one thing I will tell you if you have never been, know the story before you go. As a student studying Architecture this was a class trip where we when [...]

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