Director Andrew Bujalski celebrates 10 years of 'Funny Ha Ha' with a big fan, Lena Dunham:
Andrew Bujalski's film Funny Ha Ha celebrated its 10th anniversary last night at Anthology Film Archives, with the director and one of his biggest fans, Lena Dunham, in attendance.
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“There’s some small number of people that you can’t reach,” he said. “And some of them you can’t reach because they just are at a place where they’ve gotta be what they are and they’re not gonna be dissuaded. And even if you do what they say, they’re not going to acknowledge it.”
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on February 29th, 2012 8:03pmAs widely expected, this afternoon a city zoning board approved a controversial plan to let Whole Foods build a 58,000 square foot store along the Gowanus Canal. The unanimous vote by the Board of Standards and Appeals took less than one minute. More
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on February 28th, 2012 5:03pmThe day after a Greenwich Village Community Board voted overwhelmingly against a planned N.Y.U. expansion, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said he had a lot of work to do.
“We’ve been pretty consistent in how we look at major development project, whether it was Columbia expansion, Fordham University and obviously now the N.Y.U. expansion proposal, and I need a couple weeks to think about a lot of the issues that were raised,” said Stringer, standing on Mott Street after a press conference on counterfeit-goods vendors in Chinatown. More
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on February 24th, 2012 11:32pmU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is bothered by the perception that the Justice Department hasn't been vigorous enough in prosecuting financial crime.
At an event at Columbia University yesterday moderated by university president Lee Bollinger, he said, "For some reason, I’m not sure exactly why, all the great work that has been done has not somehow seeped into the American consciousness." More
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on February 24th, 2012 2:13pmRumpus founder Stephen Elliott opened by telling the crowd the site would pay for Rumpus tattoos. “Nobody at McSweeneys ever got a McSweeney’s tattoo,” he said. “I mean I love those guys, but they’re not fully committed.” The literary crowd, some almost certainly affiliated with the Dave Eggers imprint, laughed. More
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on February 23rd, 2012 1:47pmThough The Atavist packages its long-form journalism with an array of multimedia bells and whistles, three writers for the literary website told an audience last night at NYU that words—no matter how many—were still king. Using an iPad, the panelists projected Matt Power’s 15,000-word article on a tree kangaroo seeker in a remote Pacific Island. “There’s probably less than ten major magazine stories a year that come out of that length,” Evan Ratliff said. More
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on February 22nd, 2012 12:30pm“Unlike other neighborhoods that have the ability to shift the burden on other lines, we don’t have that ability,” Councilman Steve Levin said during the meeting, which was held at the restaurant Cubana Social on North 6th Street. “It’s not like Downtown Brooklyn where if the 4/5 is out than people take the A/C.” More
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on February 17th, 2012 1:08pm
“We can’t lose this momentum in two years when there’s a new mayor,” Schwartz said. “We’ve got to keep it going, so it’s important for all of you to know that lesson.”
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on February 16th, 2012 4:47pm
“We see school groups, and teachers, and lots of families and so forth, but you know, after four o clock, when all the families leave, we could be a real hipster place here are the transit museum,” she said.
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on February 15th, 2012 9:49amAccording to a Council spokeswoman, Zoe Tobin, the Council will initially pledge $100,000 for the union to open its first “medical home.” Though the union is still working on specifics, the clinic would open in Brooklyn as early as this summer and later expand into each borough. More
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on February 14th, 2012 6:21pm
