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April is the month in which the great English poet Geoffrey Chaucer sets his bawdy Canterbury Tales. The characters share ribald stories on their pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Thomas Beckett. April is a good month to begin journeys and tell tales. Our "Pilgrim's Progress" starts on Broadway as it runs 135 miles right up to our capital in Albany. Some tales we have heard on the road: "The Governor and the Mayflower Prostitute", "The Blind Man at the Days Inn", "The Governor's Boyfriend", "The Senator and Her Husband's Mistress." Hopefully by the time these ribald tales are told and morals learned, spring will have arrived. And as we say in New York, there are 8 million stories in the Naked City; these have been only a few of them.
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Celebrity chefs continue to open restaurants in Manhattan. Chef Boyardee is featuring his iconic Franco-American cuisine in Little Italy. Wolfgang Puck is going family style with his “Puck Luck” menu on Times Square. Haute cuisine master, Jean George is slumming it with his Lower East Side “Jean'y G’s.” And Betty Crocker is setting up shop near Magnolia Bakery, in the Village, serving up Bundt cakes with 20 different artificially flavored icings.
Openings:
LoCal
Sal's
Ciao
Chow's (Italian/Chinese cuisine)
Purina
Cafe
Closings:
Transfat
Trattoria
Rene
Pujol
Alice
B. Toklas Sweet Shoppe
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Chocolate Tours are the rage and not to be outdone Briggs now offers them in sweet, semi-sweet, bitter and dark versions; with or without nuts. Our Sweeney Todd Tour is a delicious tour of the bakeries of the Meat Packing District, including bites of Puddy Cat Pudding, Kitty Lime Pie, Jack Russell Stover's Truffles and Armour English Muffins. A popular site on our Staten Island is a visit to the home of the Italian American inventor of the telephone – Antonio Meucci.
New Tours:
Brooklyn
Pizza Bike Tour
14th
Street Drag Queen Shopping Tour
Bronx
Bombers Tour (White Castle Tasting Tour)
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Among the many Asian hotel purchases in NYC, it has just been announced that the Dali Lama has acquired the recently opened Plaza Hotel and will rename it, The Lhasa Plasa. The Pierre has closed for renovations and will cast off its dowdy reputation as it re-brands itself, Peter on the Park. The restaurant Chop Suey, with its fantastic views of Times Square, has opened up in the newly renovated Renaissance Hotel. It does not serve Chop Suey. Rumor has it that DC’s Mayflower Hotel will open a full service branch in Albany, NY. – Location, Location, Location.
Openings:
Barack's
B&B
Mela
Hotel
Heidi
Klum's Alpine Inn
Closings:
Ho
Jo's Love Hotel
Emperors
Club Quarters
McCain's
Straight Talk Express Motor Lodge
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Starting in April, Rudy Giuliani is playing Roxy Hart in the perennial, Chicago. The question is whether he can do the splits in the “Hot Honey Rag." Public toilets, pay toilets, and now “Play Toilets.” That's right there's a new kind of bathroom drama taking place in Central Park – a play that takes place right inside the men and women's bathrooms. Most of us are familiar with bathroom humor. But how about bathroom drama? Ladies & Gents is now playing in the Bethesda Fountain bathrooms in Central Park. It’s a thriller out of Ireland based on the true story of a 1950's politician involved in a sex scandal with a prostitute. It's the first time it's being performed in North America - on stage anyway.
Openings:
Mrs.
Saigon Part II
Karma Sutra
the Musical!
Shrek
Closings:
Color Purple
Is
He
Is Dead?
Mr.
Spitzer Goes to Washington
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