1991Year Phyllis Yvonne Stickney made the big time and moved out to Los Angeles a couple of years ago, but she still hangs onto her old apartment in Harlem. Harlem is where Ms. Stickney, a comedian and an actress appearing in the movie "New Jack City," found her voice. Harlem, she said, will always be home. "Los Angeles is a toy town," Ms. Stickney said the other day, driving along Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard on a tour of her neighborhood. "I have to come back to Harlem." Harlem Journal

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1966Year From the Green Antilles: Writings of the Caribbean: ed and with introductions by B Howes Homegrown

1982Year A few years back, when the construction business took a downturn, Cliff Fowlin decided to try his hand at cooking for a living. Having learned to cook at his mother's knee in Jamaica, Mr. Fowlin started out by delivering his homemade lunches by bicycle. Then, three years ago, he and his wife, Ann, took the plunge and opened an informal storefront restaurant in what had been an antiques shop in Teaneck. The small dining room still retains some of the flavor of its former life, what with curios spotted about, bentwood chairs, old photographs and prints on the walls and the omnipresent Tiffany-style lamps. Brown oilcloth and paper napkins on the tables lend a sort of operating-on-a-shoestring tone. DINING OUT

2004Year Changes are under way in Russia's fashion scene as result of four years of economic growth

1983Year When a stock splits four for one, it makes headlines on Wall Street. Yet gardeners who grow shallots would be disappointed with a mere four for one split. They expect at least eight for one, but more often it's 10, 12, or 15 for one. To attain these big shallot bulbs, plant as early as possible, as soon as the ground can be worked. If you've grown onions from sets, you can grow shallots. The procedure is the same for both. The shallots sold at the green grocer are what you plant. LEISURE