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‘What’s With Jews and Comedy?’ Borscht Belt-themed show to chronicle beloved Catskills comedy...
South Florida Sun Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What’s a Borscht Belt joke? Comedy historian Lenny Dave shares this classic...
Freddie Roman, Staple Borscht Belt Stand-Up Comedian, Dies at 85
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFreddie Roman, a staple stand-up comedian in the Catskill Mountains’ Borscht Belt region and...
Freddie Roman Dies: Borscht Belt Comedian Who Appeared In Film And TV Was 85
Deadline via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFreddie Roman, a Borscht Belt staple whose comedy was long a part of the Friars Club roasts and was...
Borscht Belt comedian Freddie Roman dies at age 85
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoComedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. Roman died Saturday afternoon at...
Hudson Valley development plans include a prison, power plant and Borscht Belt museum
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWestchester County's beauty scene is growing. The county welcomed three beauty businesses in the...
Schumer’s highway to the Catskills angers environmentalists
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers escape the sweltering heat of the concrete jungle each summer by fleeing their Brooklyn brownstones and Upper West Side co-ops and driving west on Route 17 ...
Fire destroys building at vacant Grossinger's resort, once a Catskill jewel
Times Herald-Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLIBERTY — A fire consumed a building at the site of the long-closed Grossinger’s resort, once among...
Abandoned hotel that inspired ‘Dirty Dancing’ suffers fire
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA building was consumed by a fire at the site of a former upstate New York hotel that inspired the...
Beloved entertainer Dani Luv will hit the stage as NYC institution Sammy’s Roumanian makes a...
NY Post metro via AOL· 2 months agoOne of New York’s most well-known mensches is getting his tuchus back on stage. Dani Luv, the...
Our stories this week looked at preservation and its flip side, neglect and destruction
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI’ve always had a soft spot for a thesaurus. I was introduced to the reference, which lists synonyms...