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The birth of Blue Ivy Carter, the daughter of Jay Z and Beyoncé, created a controversy over whether the couple dominated too much of the Lenox Hill Hospital maternity ward. Village Voice writer and author of the new book Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back, Michael Musto, discusses the controversy and takes your calls.  

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Michael Musto, columnist for The Village Voice and the author of La Dolce Musto: Writings by the World's Most Outrageous Columnist (Carroll & Graf, 2007) comments on what the 12-year lifespan of the musical Rent says about the city it depicts.