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All In A New York Minute - 12:00 PM
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LaGuardia High School Spring Drama Festival: Romeo and Juliet
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LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts - 7:00 PM Pick
Apokalupsis: An Uncovering Exhibit at the AKC Dog Museum
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American Kennel Club's Dog Museum - 11:00 AM
All In A New York Minute Exhibition
All In A New York Minute - 12:00 PM
All In A New York Minute - 12:00 PM
LaGuardia High School Spring Drama Festival: Romeo and Juliet
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts - 7:00 PM Pick
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts - 7:00 PM Pick
Big Climb Metro New York at Citi Field
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The Metropolitan Opera
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Observed: Unique Baby Names Now Common
1/25/07
- By Anna Fader
After a New York Times article this weekend reporting that Hispanic parents have opted to name all their boys Angel, The New York Observer reports that affluent New Yorkers are competing to label their children with the most unusual names possible.
What do you do when the trendy thing to do is try to be totally unique? Do you go for more totally unique or buck the trend and go traditional?
If you are planning to follow the trend here are some guidelines to follow:
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- Make sure that your name has never in recorded history been popular by searching for it on iVillage's Baby Name Wizard which graphs the popularity of names over the decades.
- Foreign names are good, but only if no one in the extended family comes from the nation of origin.
- Beowolf is the new baby naming book.
- Picking names purely for abstract aesthetic value that no one else can grasp is recommended.
- Taking an obscure name and using inventive spelling to make it more unique gets extra credit points.
- Under no circumstances should you take a traditional name and just spell it unusually unless you want to brand your child as a total gated-community, McMansion loser wannabee.
- Prepare yourself for how to deal with the trouble less cool people may have pronouncing your child's name by watching this video.
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