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		<title>Mafia Slaying Site to Become Museum?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2010/06/04/mafia-slaying-site-to-become-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On first glance, the house at 719 South Decator Street, in the Elwyn Heights section of the city, doesn&#8217;t seem to be all that remarkable. It&#8217;s just another in a string of large brick twin houses that populate the neighborhood. However, the mere mention of the address is apt to flip a switch in those with a longish memory of the seedier aspects of the City&#8217;s history. In 1979, organized crime boss Lorento &#8220;Lorry Boy&#8221; Scafia was slain on its marble steps while enjoying a glass of lemonade on a hot August evening. The ensuing mob war raged into the next decade, resulting in several more slayings and a couple of car bombings, finally calming down in late 1980. After the August 28 murder of &#8220;Lorry Boy,&#8221; Mrs. Scafia and their three children moved out of the house and the city, finally settling in Orlando, Florida. They retained ownership of the house, which was unoccupied for thirty years, except for a distant cousin who lived there briefly while attending Watson University in the mid-90s. When Mrs. Scafia passed away last June, the children decided it was finally time to sell the house. All in all, the slaying and its aftermath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: The Honorable Harold Ramis, No Batmobiles</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/07/24/friday-facts-the-honorable-harold-ramis-no-batmobiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: On this day in 1889, boxer John Lawrence Sullivan punched Mayor John Overholt&#8217;s wife directly in the face, knocking her out instantly. No reason was ever given for the assault, and neither the mayor nor Sullivan ever chose to speak of it again. :: A 1971 city ordinance prohibits the display of the Batmobile (from the famously campy 1960s Batman television show) at any promotional event within city limits. :: Chief City Health and Hygiene Inspector “Guy” Fenimore celebrates his 57th birthday this week, making him the oldest individual to ever hold that office and, in fact, the only sitting Chief Inspector to ever reach fifty-seven. :: Other birthdays this week include television meteorologist Howard Tidleiver (43), outspoken former city ombudsperson Claire Dolan (57) and former late-night television host Count Film-Ula (age estimated at either 93 or 97). :: In a local poll conducted earlier this week, sixteen percent of respondents admitted to participating in physical conflicts stemming from disagreements over the best local pizza restaurant. :: The Doig Museum of Natural Science was forced to cancel its upcoming exhibit &#8220;The Beauty Inside the Human Body,&#8221; which was to feature the plasticized remains of actual cadavers, posed artfully to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Charlie&#8217;s Angels Lunchboxes, Roadside Cabbage, Fake Squid</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/12/friday-facts-charlies-angels-lunchboxes-roadside-cabbage-fake-squid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: A City Council ordinance passed on this date in 1975 expressly prohibited the “display of images of a licentious, erotic, salient or pornographic nature, or which otherwise arouse the prurient interest for the sole purpose of titillation” on children’s metal lunchboxes. :: The Seventh of the Eight Great Zoo Hoaxes was committed on this day in 1968. :: Number of regular weekly Farmer&#8217;s Markets (regulated) within city limits: 12 :: Number of regular weekly Farmer&#8217;s Markets (regulated) within city limits three years ago: 4 :: Number of stands where it&#8217;s just guys selling produce streetside: At least 47 (according to a story this week by the Clarion-Journal) :: Number of these out of a station wagon: 10 :: Number of these out of a van: 22 :: Number of these out of an old ice cream truck: 1 :: Number of vacant lots/properties being used for farming, under the city&#8217;s new UrbanFarm program: 18 :: When First Amendment activists blocked a 1979 attempt by the City Council to pass an ordinance against the sale and display of shirts bearing the legend “FBI: Federal Breast Inspector,” the City Council successfully retaliated by passing a different ordinance requiring three-hundred hours of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum&#8217;s Ford Thrives on Bailouts</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/12/29/museums-ford-thrives-on-bailouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many historical treasures of the Keets Harbor area, the Maritime Military Museum has thus far avoided the budget shortfall common to many other municipal, civic and cultural institutions around the city. No small contributor to the museum’s fiscal health has been its Development Director, Albert Ford, who took over fundraising efforts in 1997. His initial success was a deft business deal that turned a 1998 trademark infringement suit brought by Minnesota Mining &#38; Manufacturing Company into a 10-year sponsorship that expired in November. His latest fundraising efforts have positioned the erstwhile &#8220;3M/3M&#8221; to maintain a budget surplus for the foreseeable future, even with significant infrastructure improvements and expansion plans in 2009. One of the museum’s most popular attractions is a portion of the WWII-era light carrier USS Cabot. The Cabot was auctioned off to Sabe Marine Salvage by the US Marshall’s Service in 1999 after a private preservation group ran out of funds. Director Ford, a former Naval Aviator who was twice shot down over Vietnam, purchased an intact section of the ship from SMS on September 4, 2001, not long after the carrier’s designation as a National Historic Landmark expired. The $61,500 purchase was not popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum&#8217;s Warhol Masterpiece a Fake?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/06/09/museums-warhol-masterpiece-a-fake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one time or another, most residents of our city have visited the Museum of Modern American and Canadian Art at the corner of 26th Street and Smith. What most visitors don&#8217;t know is the real story behind one of the museum&#8217;s most famous works. The controversy started in 1998, when experts began a conservation project on the canvas Self Portrait With Pink Soup Can 2 by Andy Warhol. The painting was considered extremely valuable because of its rarity and seeming departure in style, compared to the artist&#8217;s other works. The painting shows Warhol perched on a enormous can of Campbell&#8217;s Pea Soup. Most of Warhol&#8217;s other works from this period were screen printed and produced in mass quantities, but no similar canvas survives. On recent tour of the museum, a guide claimed that the artist destroyed Pink Soup 1 by throwing it into a bonfire in a fit of rage after a fight with Lou Reed. However, no documentation of Pink Soup 1 exists in published records, and Mr. Reed has stated in interviews that he does not recall the incident. Pink Soup 2 also has a murky history. The painting was donated to the museum from the estate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Discount Pork Credit Rebate A.M.</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/05/09/friday-facts-discount-pork-credit-rebate-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Mayor Wilders&#8217; recent initiative to &#8220;clean up&#8221; the city&#8217;s catalog of archaic, outdated, obtuse or redundant ordinances begins in earnest next Wednesday when he plans to unveil his self-authored C.O.M.B. (Consolidate Our Municipal Bylaws) Initiative. Among the ordinances targeted by the measure are a 1988 ban on prostitution services for pets, last year&#8217;s activist &#8220;pro-smoking&#8221; initiative, and a late 17th-century punishment which calls for &#8220;stabbing centrely amidst the fleshie organs&#8221; for anyone caught &#8220;dealyng with goods of a gypsie nature.&#8221; :: In addition to police officers, emergency response and medical personnel, it is technically illegal in the city to pose as a practitioner of the following professions: Plumber, baker, cobbler, milliner, grocer, asphalt-mixer. :: Number of local coyote attacks sparking the &#8220;Coyotes: This Summer&#8217;s Sharks?&#8221; three-day investigative series on Channel 8&#8242;s newscast next week: 0 :: The Woodbridge District of the city boasts more hair salons, Thai restaurants and British import shops than any other district in the city (124, 70 and 17 respectively). :: Tourism in the city is down 15% over the same period last year. The Valley Regional Tourism Bureau attributes the decline to budget cuts, leading to a lack of presence for the city in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: President William Howard Taft (1911)</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/22/snapshots-president-william-howard-taft-1911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caption on the reverse of the photo: &#8220;Tuesday- During festivities, President William Howard Taft laughs heartily with Mayor Woolsey at a joke making sport of the intelligence of those in the Arizona Territory.&#8221; During this May 1911 visit, there was an embarrassing incident in which Taft broke a chair in the mayor&#8217;s office. After decades in storage, the chair was finally put on display at the Rincher Museum of Municipal History in 1990. - RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Go There: Future Christmas Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/12/11/go-there-future-christmas-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go There is a feature in which our writers tell you about tourist attractions and other places of interest around the city. In 1960, the downtown Osberger&#8217;s Department Store unveiled the Future Christmas Wonderland, an audio animatronic attraction that took up half of its sixth floor shopping space. Visitors were directed by temporary holiday employees in silver and gold lamé jumpsuits through a winding path past scenes of what Christmas would be like in the distant future. The display was a yearly tradition through the 1975 holiday season, replaced by a bicentennial attraction for 1976-1977 and then a standard &#8220;Santa&#8217;s Workshop&#8221; theme until the store&#8217;s closing in 1993. The pieces of the Future Christmas Wonderland were packed away, presumably forgotten. A few years ago, the family of the man who used to maintain the Wonderland discovered it in a storage space he&#8217;d rented for years near his home in Wicker Hills. When this hit the news, retirees Mary and Lewis Henry called the family and offered to take it off of their hands and they were more than happy to oblige. Mary had been the director of the DiFlorio Children&#8217;s Museum in University Center for many years and thought the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marathon Men</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/10/10/marathon-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bid to clumsily localize the story of the disastrous Chicago Marathon this week, the News made a passing mention of one of this city&#8217;s most problematic racing stories. But, they didn&#8217;t go quite as deep as the story deserves. Long-time residents of the city may remember the tale of Erlin Degrassi, runner-up in the city marathon in 1983. Degrassi was leading the race with less than a half-mile to go, but seemed to be trailing one Michael Phipps, who went on to &#8220;finish&#8221; first. As it turned out, Phipps had achieved this result with a little help from a yellow cab – &#8220;little&#8221; in this case meaning about 24 miles worth. Degrassi, well on his way to bettering his personal best by more than two minutes, was so disappointed to see Phipps in the lead that he offered no resistance when passed by Martin Odoyo, the eventual &#8220;real&#8221; winner of the race. Degrassi ran again in 1984, and – with the city in one of its many budget crises – stepped in an unfilled pothole, breaking his leg in three places. But even that wasn’t the darkest chapter of this particular story. The reason Degrassi’s leg snapped like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go There: Xavier Torres Museum of Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/26/go-there-xavier-torres-museum-of-prosthetic-and-orthotic-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go There is a feature in which our writers tell you about tourist attractions and other places of interest around the city. Have you ever been tempted to try on someone else’s glasses to see how the world looks through their eyes? Did you ever contemplate if – given only two options – you’d rather become deaf, or go blind? Have you ever considered what it would be like to walk a mile in another man’s shoes – if you had only one leg? All these questions and many others can be answered at the Xavier Torres Museum of Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices, at 1212 Algonquin Avenue, three blocks north of Essen Blvd. From a wooden leg worn out through heavy use by the pirate Samuel ‘Deadlegs’ Darling, to the hearing aid Calvin Coolidge often used to ignore polite conversation, to the eyeglasses donned by Emperor Hirohito during the signing of the Japanese surrender in WWII, the most famous sensory-, ambulatory- and dexterity- enhancing devices from the last 250 years are on display. The oldest item in the collection is a set of wooden teeth, reputedly the first pair ever worn by the nation’s first president, George Washington, in 1757. [...]]]></description>
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