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The New York Public Library is opening Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road exhibition tomorrow at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of Kerouac's landmark novel, On the Road, and will display the first 60 feet of Kerouac's famous "scroll" typescript.

Reuters reports:

[The exhibit] reveals some less flattering sides of the writer: mama's boy, anti-Semite and perhaps misogynist.

"It will shatter a lot of preconceptions," curator Isaac Gewirtz said of "Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac On the Road," which runs through March 16, accompanied by a lecture series and film screenings.

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Hey Jack, how bout a mojito?
Famous Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and Joe College hangout the West End Café has officially reopened for business--"about five minutes ago," a publicist told The Observer late Thursday afternoon.

Albeit with a slightly altered moniker: Havana Central at the West End.

Dig it: Kerouac's favorite burger joint will begin serving Cuban cuisine next month, under the direction of new owner and Columbia U. grad Jeremy Merrin.

The historic Upper West Side bar--notoriously divided by the sign "Pigs over there, students over here," during the late '60s Columbia riots--was originally scheduled to reopen in September but got delayed by "construction complications," according to the Columbia Spectator.

The newly refurbished venue will commemorate its Beat-poet past with readings of Kerouac's On The Road and Allen Ginsberg's Howl next Friday night.

Full beboppin' event details after the jazzy jump.  read more »

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