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The Cotton Club has been a major tourist attraction and Harlem cultural resource since it was re-opened in 1978, at its present location on W 125th St, by the West Side Highway. The club started out as the Club De Lux, which closed in 1923, and then reopened as the Cotton Club. This was the in-place to be for downtown, all-white society. Many early black entertainers got their start at the Club including Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, and Lena Horne. The club offered the opportunity to mingle with the gangsters, and the rich and famous, as well as, sample the best of décor, cuisine, and entertainment New York had to offer. It was resurrected in 1978 by the current owner, Mr. John Beatty.

The Club is known for its Monday Night event, its Swing Time dance. The house band is a 13-piece jazz and swing ensemble, known as the "Cotton Club All Stars." They play 3 sets of 50-minutes each of the music that made Duke Ellington and others famous, with 20-minute breaks between sets. The main dance floor is 600-square-feet, while upstairs, there is a smaller 225-square-feet dance floor. Other weekly events are the Club's Sunday brunch and gospel show. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, the club has a Jazz show and a buffet dinner.

Since its opening in 1923, the club has been famous for its finest in musical entertainment, and still today continues in this great virtue. It still features great Southern style cuisine, also known as "Soul Food" in some quarters. The Cotton Club which is located on a narrow tract of land on 125th Street by the West Side Highway is one of the targets of the prospective expansion of Columbia University from its !20 St. neighborhood, northward, into Harlem.

Columbia University has acquired the resources to expand north of 125th Street in a manner consistent with maintaining the world-class status of the university. There is a lot of question about whether Columbia University is giving a raw deal to Harlem once again. With its proposed expansion north of 125th Street, Columbia fears that the Cotton Club will attract Black patrons to the area. Other clubs that have mostly white patrons are known on Broadway and Amsterdam in Morningside Heights. Morningside Heights, the Columbia University main neighborhood is mostly a white and international neighborhood. There are some blacks in the neighborhood, but the whole area has become more and more expensive. People forget that Morningside Heights itself is still geographically at least, a part of Harlem.

Culture is the glue that binds people together. Maintaining black and traditional Harlem culture is important for the entire Harlem neighborhood and the future of Blacks in New York City and beyond. Blacks can not afford to lose Harlem and its cultural institutions.

The United Africa Movement has a number of events planned at the Cotton Club, including on January 5th, its Annual Kwanzaa Breakfast, at 656 West 125th St, Harlem, the Cotton Club from 8:30 am to 11:30 am. Also, the United Africa Movement will have its Annual Membership Dance at the club, January 19th at 9 pm.

Howard Giske is a writer for Community News in New York, and for I Love Harlem, and the T-shirt Queen [http://www.teeshirtqueen.com] for local themed apparel.

The Cosby Show dvd

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 and running for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992. The show focused on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

According to TV Guide, the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes".[1] Originally, the show had been pitched to ABC, which rejected it.[1] Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows based on African Americans, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.[2] The Cosby Show was also one of the first successful sitcoms based on the subject matter of a standup comedian’s act, blazing a trail for other programs such as Roseanne, Home Improvement, The Drew Carey Show, Seinfeld, and Everybody Loves Raymond. The Cosby Show is one of only three American programs that have been #1 in the Nielsen Ratings for five consecutive seasons, along with All in the Family and American Idol. The show spawned the successful spin-off A Different World.

Having aired for 197 episodes (201 in syndication), The Cosby Show is the third-longest running U.S. comedy with a predominantly African-American cast, surpassed only by The Jeffersons and Family Matters.

History
The genesis of the show was in the early 1980s. Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, two former executives at ABC, left the network to start their own production company. They turned ABC in the late 1970s into the top network in television with their great eye for sitcoms like Mork & Mindy, Three's Company and Welcome Back, Kotter.

The two decided in order to get a sitcom to sell for their fledgling company, they needed a big name behind it. Bill Cosby, who during the 1970s starred in two failed sitcoms, produced award-winning stand-up comedy albums, and had roles in several different films, was relatively quiet during the early 1980s. Outside of his work on his cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, he was doing little in the fields of film and television. The two watched his stand-up comedy film, Bill Cosby: Himself. They loved the routine and decided they wanted to build a television series around a comedian's subject material which, with Cosby, was observations of life and family.

After meeting with them, Cosby returned to Carsey and Werner with his own ideas: the family would be blue-collared, with a stay at home mother and a limousine driving father with two sons and two daughters. Carsey and Werner convinced Cosby to make the family well-off financially, with both parents in lucrative and challenging fields. That way, the focus of the show would be Cosby's comedic material from his stand-up routines.

Overview

The show focused on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle class African-American family living in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, New York, at 10 Stigwood Avenue.[3] The patriarch was Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable, an obstetrician. The matriarch was his wife, attorney Clair Huxtable née Hanks. Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involved serious subjects, such as son Theo's experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby's child Ennis, who was also dyslexic.

Cosby had an unusually high level of creative control over the show. He wanted the program to be educational, reflecting his own background in education. He also insisted that the program be taped in New York City rather than Los Angeles, where most television programs were taped.

The earliest episodes of the series were videotaped at NBC's Studio One facility in Brooklyn. The network later sold that building, and production moved to the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens.

Although the cast and characters were predominantly African-American, the program was unusual in that issues of race were rarely mentioned when compared to other situation comedies of the time, such as The Jeffersons. However, The Cosby Show had African-American themes, such as civil rights marches, and it frequently promoted African-American and African culture represented by artists and musicians such as Jacob Lawrence, Miles Davis, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Miriam Makeba.

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What street did Lena Horne and Martin Landau grow up on?

lena horne and martin landau both grew up in brooklyn. what street did they grow up on?

Bedford-Stuyvesant. That is the neighborhood that they grew up on. I don't know the street, sorry.

Valencia Entertainment, MGM Grand & City Lights Productions UK Present Michel Legrand's 50th Anniversary Concert ...
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - 03/12/10) - ValCom, Inc. (OTC.BB: VLCO - News ) (Frankfurt: VAM1 - News ), MGM Grand, Valencia Entertainment, and City Lights Productions UK announced today that three-time Oscar and five-time GRAMMY Award-winner Michel Legrand will perform a tribute to his 50 years of music and movies at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, March 27. The event is scheduled to begin ...

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