The food at Azalea is luxurious (sake-marinated Chilean sea bass with shrimp dumplings), the ambience hip.

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Is the next Mos Def or Azalea Banks languishing in a region where there's no way to get his or her talent across?

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The Business Review of Albany has written about Project Azalea for months.

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The Oregonian said New York was offering "tens of millions" of dollars to win Project Azalea, a tax package Oregon probably couldn't match.

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