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Summer of Love? A blast from the past!

50 Years Ago: The Summer of Love Brings Pot, Protests and Psychedelic Rock to the East Village, by Frank Mastropolo, Bedford + Bowery, May 16, 2017 “As the hour grew late and working people around Tompkins Square Park began turning out the lights on Memorial Day 1967, police

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April Fools’ Day Parade in Heat Street

Prankster Behind NYC April Fools’ Day Parade Says This Year’s Event Will Mock Trump, by Jillian Kay Melchior, March 28, 2017 For more than three decades, prankster Joey Skaggs has rejoiced in ensnaring the national media into covering fake news of his own invention. But this April

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April Fools’ Day Parade covered in Gothamist

This Week’s Trump Protests & Organizing Events In NYC by David Colon, March 27, 2017 NYC’s 32nd Annual April Fools’ Day Parade—It’s a Trumpathon Donald Trump has been named “King of Fools” before New York City’s April Fool’s Day Parade has even started, and in order to

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April Fools’ Day Parade covered in The New Yorker

ABOVE & BEYOND: April Fools’ Day Parade, March 26, 2017 “Our satire knows no bounds,” the organizers of this annual parade of jesters promise, yet is there any target more rewarding for the modern satirist than the Commander-in-Chief? New York’s thirty-second April Fools’ Day Parade calls for

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