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#TheGramUptown: The Longest Running Joke Uptown

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UC Certified: Up Theater Company Presents Detained

PLEASE do the following. Get on your phone, your tablet, your whatever it is you use to surf the interwebs and go to www.uptheater.org/ to get tickets to see the latest production from the Up Theater Company, Detained. Set…

Hola a Lola | Manhattan Times

Photos by Cristóbal Vivar “I am pastelito con salchipapa.” The MacArthur Fellow and Pultizer Prize-winning writer almost got usurped by the beginners. Before Junot Díaz took to the stage at the United Palace this past Fri., Apr. 13th, a…

The Fix: Audubon – Risky Business

 Related: About Last Night – The UC Revue @ United Palace The Fix: Audubon – Not So Perfect We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter…

The Surgeon Who Experimented on Slaves | The Atlantic

Dr. James Marion Sims is considered the father of modern gynecology. Until this week, his statue stood solemnly on Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street. The thing is that he obtained his knowledge by experimenting on enslaved Black women. Without…

J. Marion Sims statue removed | Manhattan Times

Photos by Cristóbal Vivar The statue of a white doctor who performed experimental surgeries on female slaves has been removed from East Harlem. Early on Tuesday morning, April 17, NYC Parks workers took down the Central Park statue of…

Uptown Talk: Latinos Out Loud – 50 going on 16

Congrats to the LOL Crew on their 50th episode. This week the team chop it about #Beychella, Desus and Mero shout outs and holograms. The special guest this week is Grammy-nominated salsa singer Miss Yaya Vargas. We invite you…

#InstagramUptown: The Heights Loves Cardi

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Spread Love: Veneno In Theaters

Jack Veneno was the man. By far, the most well known Dominican wrestler of all time, Jack Veneno is held in an almost mythic regard by so many Dominicans of a certain era. Now his stirring story is on…