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Street Pianos Headed to NYC!

One of the (many) things I love about NYC is the abundance of street and subway performers. May it be a classically-trained prodigy giving an impromptu concert, a struggling musician performing for dollars (often with the wish that a record executive will "discover" them), or an out-of-luck bum drumming some beats on some upside-down plastic containers, you can bet that these performers add as much art and culture to the city as do those who play sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Heck, even street salesmen are world-famous performers here! This is precisely the reason I was so excited to read that NYC will soon follow in London and Sydney's footsteps to install street pianos in public places for anyone to sit down and...

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My Name is Jenny and I am a Serial Subscriber

I subscribe to over 500 sites via Google Reader (sadly, if your site doesn't have an RSS feed, it's likely that I'll never visit it again unless it is spectacular) and I always have a heck of a time trying to "weed" through my feeds in an effort to lessen the number of posts/articles I have to read each day. And yes, I must read ALL of them because I'm anal like that. Unfortunately, as many feeds as I "unsubscribe" each week, my "subscribe" number is always higher. How can I resist when there are sites like ZooBorns (which my friend Jillian introduced via Twitter earlier this week and started a "zOMG so cute!" frenzy)...

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