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• Uptown Liz honors cancer victim

  Published: August 15, 2007, 7:09 am

  Tags: Cause, Charity, Elizabeth Ann Overturf, Elizabethannoverturf, Online Shopping, Onlineshopping, Shopping, Uptown Liz, Uptownliz

  and named it after her. Uptown Liz is an online store specializing in products from companies that give back by donating some of their proceeds to charity. You can't go wrong when you're shopping for a cause, right?(via Back in the Skinny Jeans )Read   Permalink   Email this   Linking Blogs

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• Heather and Paul Try to Make Nice for Beatrice, Have All Of Hamptons On Eggshells

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:08 pm

  Tags: Beatrice, Christie Brinkley, Eggshells, Hamptons, Heather Mills, Montauk, Paul Mccartney, Sea, Southampton, Uptown Girl

  and talking closely with Uptown Girl Christie Brinkley at a recent benefit concert. They looked like they were having a grand time. Now they would make an interesting

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• Fundraising: 740 Park Avenue (the "world's richest apartment ...

  Published: September 19, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Fundraising, The Riches, Uptown

  740 Park Avenue (the "world's richest apartment building") isn't locked in yet for any the 2008 campaigns. Right now, the winning candidate, in terms of donations, is... Chris Dodd? [Daily Intel]

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• Gossip Girl: Serena Is Totally Part Of That World!

  Published: September 27, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Clips, Gilt, Gossip Girl, T V, Uptown Girls

  newVideoPlayer("Gossip_Girl_walk_away.flv", 475, 376); Last night on the CW's "Gossip Girl," the most important and salient show ever made for television, our protagonist Serena and her Brooklyn...

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• Is Gossip Girls Real?: Would A Williamsburg Boy Really Date An Upper East Side Girl?

  Published: October 2, 2007, 2:40 pm

  Tags: New Speech Affect Discovered, Clips, Gossip Girls Real, Upper East Side, Uptown Girl, Williamsburg

  newVideoPlayer("will_date.flv", 475, 376); "I may be a simple boy from Brooklyn," Dan declared to Serena on last week's episode of New York docudrama Gossip Girls, while they were fighting about the...

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• Alicia Keys Does Uptown

  Published: October 3, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Fashion Magazines, Alicia Keys, Photos, Pictures, Uptown

  Alicia Keys Does Uptown Alicia Keys looks beautiful on the cover of Uptown magazine. The gorgeous songstress is promoting her new album by doing all the usual stuff, but these photos of Alicia in Uptown are some of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen of her. There is no doubt Alicia is a true talent but sometimes her photos come off kind

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• Watching Uptown Transform

  Published: November 9, 2007, 9:28 pm

  Tags: Oakland, Urban Planning, Broadway Grand, Downtown Oakland, Flora, Fox Theater, Uptown Oakland

  a tease to just write about Uptown’s transformation without sharing some photos. Luckily, I don’t have to curse myself anymore because Eric over at Transbay Blog has visually documented the loads of construction happening in Uptown and a bit deeper into Downtown. Here are a couple of my favorite photos: That’s the Uptown

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• DC/Oakland Reflections: Urban Walking

  Published: November 23, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Oakland, Urban Planning, Urban Reflections, Walking, Crime, Downtown Oakland, North Oakland, Uptown Oakland, Washington Dc

  this walkable after dark is Uptown (and maybe later other parts of Downtown). I think as it transforms and recenters life around public transit and walking, I might feel safe walking there at night. Otherwise, I think I’ll save my evening walks for my trips to DC.

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• Randall's Island 'Field of Schemes' Fight Gets Weird

  Published: April 11, 2008, 10:50 am

  Tags: Manhattan Uptown

  [Photo courtesy of Bones!/flickr] When we last checked on the Randall's Island 'Field of Schemes' issue, it had been seriously wounded by a judge's decision against the city's plan to sell rights to use athletic fields on the island to nearly two dozen exclusive private schools. The judge said the huge plan had to go through the city's land use

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• Heather Locklear's Bout of Depression

  Published: June 26, 2008, 4:00 am

  Tags: Mariah Carey, Heather Locklear, Kirsten Dunst, Tag, Depression, Jack Wagner, Melrose Place, Celebrities, The Perfect Man, Spin City, Uptown Girls, Cece Yorke

  Perfect Man, Spin City, Uptown Girls, Cece

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• Uptown: Bulldozing Wilson Yards

  Published: July 4, 2008, 5:51 pm

  Tags: Uptown, Wilson Yards, Tifs, Construction

  The Bench took these photos of ground breaking activity in Wilson Yards late this morning from a low-flying CTA train. How much are those union guys getting paid on July 4th? (Click photos to see larger images.) Click headline for full story at The Bench.

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• Attn Jody Weis: Read Comment #6

  Published: July 15, 2008, 7:24 pm

  Tags: Guns, Uptown Update, Gangs, Jody Weis, Domestic Violence, Criminals, Chicago Police Department

  a gang shootout in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood this afternoon. Uptown Update posts that it was the wild west around 3:30 today, but police did not make arrests. What? No arrests, that's right folks, EVEN AFTER A WITNESS POINTED OUT SOME OF THE SHOOTERS.... Click headline for full story at The Bench.

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• Finally: Wilson Yard

  Published: July 24, 2008, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Wilson Yard, Uptown, Chicago, Development, Tifs

  taken 7/24/08) in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood on the north side. After years of delays and broken promises, the TIF project is chugging along. It will have a residential and retail mix, including over 25,000 square feet of retail... Click headline for full story at The Bench.

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