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On this Labor Day, WFUV checks in with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment we visit the 24-hour spa, where working nights can be, well, interesting. Read the full description.
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Intro: While you may be in bed at two in the morning, some people are melting their worries away at a 24-hour spa in mid-town Manhattan. Perhaps not surprisingly, the spa's manager shares some, shall we say -- interesting -- stories about the facility overnight. Tag: This "On the Night Shift" segment was produced by WFUV news.
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Posted on August 27, 2004 at 06:22 AM | Permalink
Review of A Night at the Spa
It feels like night but I can't say why - so that's a good thing. Maybe it's the very relaxed voices. But beyond the unusual interesting fact of an all night spa, the stories and speakers themselves are not so surprising or varied. Still, as part of a night shift series it works.