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<p align="center"><span class="style13">A Scandal at The Opera-</span><span class="style12"> By Jonathan Leaf</span></p>
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<p><span class="style13"><span class="style17">THE ARCH Introduces</span> <span class="style18">COMICS</span>!- <span class="style16"><a href="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/9/wondermark-series-1.html">Wondermark</a></span> </span><span class="style12">by Davis Malk</span><span class="style13">i &amp;<a href="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/9/fanny-lynnyetski.html"> <span class="style16">Fanny</span></a> </span><span class="style12">by Alex Brook Lynn</span></p>
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But, of course, it wouldn't be New York if an earlier building hadn't been razed, with dollar signs dancing in the heads of the destroyers.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/12/a-scandal-at-the-opera.html"><rss:title>A Scandal at the Opera</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/12/a-scandal-at-the-opera.html</rss:link><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-12T04:44:31Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Jonathan Leaf Metropolitan Opera The Arts</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Opera is based on myths, and one of the operative myths of the opera world today is that theater director Mary Zimmerman is a combination of Lucrezia Borgia and the anti-christ.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/11/rome-unit-i.html"><rss:title>Rome Unit I</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/11/rome-unit-i.html</rss:link><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-11T05:54:17Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Roy Scranton Verse</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[1. What doesn&rsquo;t mean &ldquo;now&rdquo;?]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/11/witchcraft-on-23rd-and-5th.html"><rss:title>Witchcraft on 23rd and 5th</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/11/witchcraft-on-23rd-and-5th.html</rss:link><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-11T05:51:59Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Jake Siegel Narrative</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[When I saw the homeless man casting something out on the corner of 23<sup>rd</sup> St. and 5<sup>th</sup> Ave. I slowed down but kept walking. He was throwing change at a cab idling on the street in front of him. I moved west towards the subway figuring that he had some quarrel with the cab driver. When the cab pulled away he didn&rsquo;t stop. There was no traffic close enough for him to hit; quarters landed near the middle of the road a few feet from the eastbound cars waiting for their light. I decided to go back and talk to him, he was down to throwing nickels and I remembered who he was.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/9/wondermark-series-1.html"><rss:title>Wondermark Series 1</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/9/wondermark-series-1.html</rss:link><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-09T07:32:12Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Comics David Malki</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3582/3340832066_0f8e5c5b58.jpg" width="500" height="131" alt="lead_wondermark_3_9_09" /></a>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/9/fanny-lynnyetski.html"><rss:title>FANNY LYNNYETSKI</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/9/fanny-lynnyetski.html</rss:link><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-09T07:06:32Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Alex Brook Lynn Comics</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3551/3340832120_2644ce5e0f.jpg" width="500" height="139" alt="lead_fanny_3_9_09" /></a>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/6/the-odds-on-online-poker.html"><rss:title>The Odds on Online Poker</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/6/the-odds-on-online-poker.html</rss:link><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-06T11:45:03Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Paul Christopher Hoppe Politics The Gaming Life UIGEA gambling online poker poker</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Over a decade ago a good friend of mine started playing online poker. Despite being an avid poker player myself, I was skeptical. Was it safe? Wouldn't it be easy for players to cheat? Could you trust the shuffle? How would you get money on and off the site? Was it even legal? Lacking clear answers to these questions, I put off playing online for several years. Unfortunately, these questions remain unanswered, leaving many who would enjoy online poker afraid to participate while those who choose to play must accept the legal risks as an added cost of entry.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/5/poker-and-the-meanest-beggar.html"><rss:title>Poker and The Meanest Beggar</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/5/poker-and-the-meanest-beggar.html</rss:link><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-05T15:53:35Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Harry Siegel The Gaming Life atlantic city gambling poker</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[But Poker players are gamblers, if occasionally highly skilled ones, and like entertainers and politicians, they are a superstitious and cowardly bunch, with little idea how to account for the role they play in their own successes and failures.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/3/are-we-on-mars.html"><rss:title>Are We on Mars?</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/3/3/are-we-on-mars.html</rss:link><dc:creator></dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-03T06:52:07Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Albany Alex Brook Lynn Elizabeth Ralston New York State Politics The Arts filmmaking movies tax incentives</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<em>The Arch presents a follow up to <a href="http://www.thearchjournal.com/home/2009/2/26/moving-pictures-move-out-of-new-york.html" target="_blank">"Moving Pictures Move Out of NY"</a></em><br />Yesterday&rsquo;s press conference at Kaufman Astoria studios in Queens, held by a collection of union and studio representatives, tried to rally support for keeping the New York State Film and TV tax incentive program fully funded and at 30%. The conference took place on the set of &lsquo;Life On Mars&rsquo;, a new TV show set in early 1970s New York. Standing on the set evoked grim parallels between the economic climate of then and now.]]></content:encoded></rss:item></rdf:RDF>