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Notable New York, This Week 12/28/09-1/03/10

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This week in New York The Poetry Project holds its 36th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading, Ludacris and Sandra Bernhard perform, 92Y hosts a New Year’s Hustle Bash, swing takes Manhattan at the Holiday Swing Ball and at the Film Forum with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello performs, enjoy some old fashioned New York fun Mad Men style at Bemelmans Bar, and take in the work of two renowned photographers Ellen Von Unwerth and Robert Bergman.

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Smith and the City

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With the release of her new memoir, Just Kids, which documents her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, punk rock idol Patti Smith has events lined up in and around New York City.

Events include readings and musical performances in support of her book and a new PBS documentary, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, about her life and art, which has already screened at over 30 film festivals around the world including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival where it won an award for cinematography.

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