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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 7, 2013?

41 free events take place on Monday, October 7 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out October 7 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of October . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, October 7, 2013

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free events nyc Italian Documentary: a film that paints a portrait of one of the most important contemporary artists.
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Concert | Miley Cyrus, Pop Sensation


The popular singer will perform her chart-topping hits live just one day before the release of her upcoming album, Bangerz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Park Pétanque


Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Politics and Public Policy: New Trends in Russia


A lecture by Robin J. Lewis (Professor and Director, Master of Global Public Policy Program (MGPP), Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, Russia) and Timothy M. Frye (Director, Harriman Institute and Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Obama Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco


A reading and discussion with the nationally acclaimed poet. Listen as he reads words of the American spirit, highlighting the themes of equality and resilience that we as Americans revere, and witness and he transcends racial and sectional borders to illustrate the realism of the vision of our Founding Fathers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Screening | Northern Exposure: Revisit the 90s Comedy-Drama Series


Whether it's a snowy nude sprint down Main Street, the mysterious appearance of a long-lost relative, or the improbable death of yet another of Maggie's boyfriends, life's never dull in the remote hamlet of Cicely, Alaska. Colorful characters and quirky plots propelled Northern Exposure into the hearts of millions of viewers, earning the CBS "dramedy" series seven Emmy awards between its 1990 debut and its demise six seasons later.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Engaging Reality: Berlin's Rimini Protokoll


An evening with Berlin-based collective Rimini Protokoll. Artists Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel create participatory documentary theater experiences in which real people, or "experts", tell their own stories, voice their own opinions, and illustrate their own circumstances. Recognized as pioneers in the alternative theater scene, the truly international collective has been commissioned by major festivals in Europe and elsewhere. Recent works have explored such topics as Egyptian muezzin, Muslim criers who lead the call to prayer, resisting the consolidation of their profession (Radio Muezzin); Athenians grappling with the Greek economic crisis (Prometheus in Athens); and jet-setting children of corporate executives who feel most at home while in transit (Airport Kids). This retrospective look at Rimini Protokoll's performance work will include afternoon excerpt screenings of recent major works (Wahl Kampf Wallenstein, Prometheus in Athens, the 100% series) and will be followed by an evening discussion between the members of Rimini Protokoll, Frank Hentschker (Segal Theatre Center, Executive Director and Director of Programs), and Gideon Lester (Bard College, Professor of Theater and Performance).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Sunset Tour


Join Free Tours by Foot as they stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Park Walk | The High Line Night Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | A Lecture by Author Faisal Devji


This year’s Breckenridge Memorial Lecture will be given by Faisal Devji, a University Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Oxford. His 2005 book, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity, transformed the study of militant Islam and received enthusiastic reviews; the New York Review of Books described it as “brilliant.” He has written three books since: The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008); The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012); and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as Political Idea (2013).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Climate Change, Activism and Artistic Practice


A panel discussion. Panelists include Jason McLennan, CEO of the International Living Future Institute; Andrew Revkin, a science and environmental journalist and senior fellow at Pace University’s Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies; artist, curator and author Linda Weintraub; and Woody Tasch, founder and chairman of Slow Money and chairman emeritus of Investors’ Circle. Moderated by Dorothy Dunn, cultural producer and educator and principal of Dorothy Dunn Consulting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Country singer Cassadee Pope, winner on The Voice, performs from her CD Frame by Frame


See the winner of The Voice Season 3, Cassadee Pope, the day before she is set to release her forthcoming debut album.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Dance/Community Action Workshop


With Amy Miller. Come experience the movement workshop format offered at domestic violence shelters across the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Italian Documentary: a film that paints a portrait of one of the most important contemporary artists.


Italian Documentary: Nunzio Massimo Nifosì's Piero Guccione (2011-13) A film that paints a portrait of one of the most important contemporary artists. “Poesia picta - Visual Poetry” is how an art historian Maurizio Calvesi describes it, reflecting on the painting craft of this Sicilian maestro. Still nowadays, half a century since his first debut, it can be said with certainty that Guccione’s work continues to draw increasing success and recognition. 75 min. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | League of Professional Theatre Women: Oral History Project


A conversation with prominent women in theatre, as part of the League's ongoing series which chronicles and documents the contributions of significant women in theatre.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Paris-New York, ca. 1913: Architects and the Beaux-Arts Connection


This panel discussion explores new research on American architects who studied at the cole des Beaux-Arts and their French classmates who taught or practiced in the U.S. Panelists will focus on the Beaux-Arts contingent active in New York City around 1913. This group includes Columbia professor Alfred Dwight Forster Hamlin and design luminaries such as Whitney Warren, Ernest Flagg, Harvey Wiley Corbett and John Russell Pope. Firms such as Carrre and Hastings, Delano and Aldrich, Herts and Tallant, George & Edward Blum, which played a key role in shaping New Yorks architecture, also find their origins in friendships nurtured at the cole.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photographs by Miroslav Tichý


The International Center of Photography introduced many New Yorkers to the works of Miroslav Tichý in 2010. Their exhibition arrived on the heels of a major retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. This show presents some of these same photographs as well as images and drawings which have never been exhibited in the United States. While Tichý died April 12th, 2011 in his hometown of Kyjov, Czech Republic, his work is still being discovered and recontextualized.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Rapid Expansion of Access to Electricity in Mozambique: The Role of Government Policies


A presentation by Salvador Namburete, Energy Minister, Mozambique.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | A Tale of Many Cities: New Books from 7 College Faculty


Featuring: - Alexandra Chasin, Brief: A Novel (Jaded Ibis Press) - Laura Frost, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents (Columbia University Press) - Elizabeth Kendall, Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer (Oxford University Press) - Robin Mookerjee, Transgressive Fiction: The New Satiric Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan) - Dominic Pettman, In Divisible Cities (Punctum Press) - Wendy S. Walters, Troy, Michigan (Futurepoem Press) - McKenzie Wark, The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century (Verso) Refreshments will be provided.
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6:15 pm
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Reading | Love En Sarcophage Decameron IV, I


A lecture by Patrizia Grimaldi-Pizzorno, Università degli Studi di Siena. A reading of the tale of Ghismonda in the light of the artes visendae of Tino da Camaino and the poetry of Dante, Cavalcanti e Cino da Pistoia. In ENGLISH.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Thane Rosenbaum reads from his book Payback


The legal scholar argues that vengeance is indistinguishable from justice and that society and the justice system should more openly discuss the human desire for revenge and how it can be lawfully practiced in response to crime.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Twilight actor Ashley Greene discusses her film CBGB


Join Ashley Greene as she discusses her new film that looks at New York’s dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the groundbreaking Lower East Side club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: David Lefkowitz


The sixty-first meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will feature David Lefkowitz. David Lefkowitz’s work in painting, installation, and mixed media addresses everyday paradoxes of perception, and larger questions that arise from them. Much of the work explores the blurry boundary between the human built environment and the natural world. He is Associate Professor of Art at Carleton College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | John Freeman reads from his book How to Read a Novelist


Writer, critic and former editor of Granta John Freeman discusses his latest book with acclaimed author Teju Cole.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Poets Justin Marks and Dorothea Lasky read their work


JUSTIN MARKS’ second book of poems, You’re Going to Miss Me When You’re Bored, is forthcoming from Barrelhouse Books in 2014. His first book is A Million in Prizes (New Issues, 2009), and his latest chapbooks are We Used to Have Parties (Dikembe Press, forthcoming) and Best Practices (Greying Ghost, 2013). Recent work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Matter Barrelhouse, Leveler and Interrupture. DOROTHEA LASKY is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007). She is also the author of six chapbooks: Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books, 2012), The Blue Teratorn (Yes Yes Books, 2012), Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker’s Wife (2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, MAKE magazine, Phoebe, Poets & Writers Magazine, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review, and 6x6, among other places.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Writing the Family


Join memoirists Alysia Abbott (Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father), Michael Hainey (After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story), Kaylie Jones (A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries), Peter Von Ziegesar (The Looking Glass Brother) and Victoria Loustalot (This Is How You Say Goodbye) with moderator Julie Klam (Friendkeeping, Please Excuse My Daughter) for a panel discussion and Q&A on the unique stresses, liberations, and revelations of writing about a private parent for public consumption. What does it mean for not only the writer and the subject but also the reader when we make our family the topic of our work?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Enso Quartet performs works by Verdi and Britten


Program: Verdi Ave Maria (Volgarizzata da Dante) for Voice and Strings Verdi String Quartet Britten Canticle No. 2 (“Abraham and Isaac”) Britten String Quartet No. 2, op. 36 With: Enso Quartet | Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano | Raman Ramakrishnan, cello | Karim Sulayman, tenor | Aaron Wunsch, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress: Lorene Bouboushian / Epik / Whitney V. Hunter


A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join artists-in-residence and international guests each season in performing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: Ayurvedic Nutrition


With Naina Marballi. Ayurveda, India’s ancient healthcare tradition, views food not as mere nutritional substance, but as a living spiritual force that profoundly affects our well-being on every level. In this class, Ayurvedic physician (known as Ayurvedacharya) and esthetician Naina Marballi will explain how we can create an optimal diet for ourselves based on our own unique constitution (prakriti).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Film | Robert Greenwald's Xanadu (1980): Musical Fantasy


With Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, and Gene Kelly. The story of a girl who makes dreams come true. 93 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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