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.
Bio: Dan Rosenblum is a regular contributor to Capital. He has written for The Jersey Journal, The Mott Haven Herald and the Hunts Point Express. Read more at DanRosenblum.com.
Last night, a little more than a week after officially announcing his official run for Congress, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries spoke to approximately 150 law students about New York’s “prison-industrial complex.” More
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on January 24th, 2012 5:31pm”It’s a pretty hard-hitting topic for Santos Party House, we know,” Al Jazeera English spokesperson Sophia Qureshi told the crowd. The screening of an episode of “Fault Lines,” an Al Jazeera English show about the global impact of U.S. foreign policy, was part of an attempt to spread the word about the network’s English-language shows. It was also to galvanize New Yorkers to pressure cable providers to add Al Jazeera English to their portfolios. More
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on January 24th, 2012 7:05am“Oh yeah, he’ll be reelected,” Koch said. “He’s a very lucky guy, because the Republicans are nuts.” More
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on January 20th, 2012 4:51pmMayor Michael Bloomberg indicated today that he was still optimistic the city and Governor Andrew Cuomo could find common ground in their determination to institute a teacher-evaluation system over the objections of the public teachers unions. More
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on January 18th, 2012 4:56pmFans of “Abraham Lincoln riding a vacuum cleaner” or the “earmuffs” of Western New York likely won’t be happy with the results.
But selected student-contestants in the 2012 New York Redistricting Project were rewarded today for chopping up some of New York’s most notorious election districts, thereby implicitly rejecting the idea that it requires the special expertise of an intensely partisan state legislature to carry out the decennial redrawing of legislative and congressional lines. More
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on January 17th, 2012 6:01pmDuring a forum on Martin Luther King Day’s legacy at Al Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem, the city’s major politicians and community leaders spoke out against gun violence and the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, and talked about Barack Obama and how to realize King’s legacy in New York. More
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on January 17th, 2012 8:09amDuring the annual Korean Night Gala on Friday night, 600 Korean-American business and community leaders joined Korean War veterans and mayoral candidates— announced and unannounced— for a $300-per-seat dinner at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. More
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on January 16th, 2012 1:09pmLast week, when Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a plan in his State of the City address to sell three city-owned buildings in lower Manhattan, he said it was part of an effort “to make government more efficient and continuing to consolidate city operations.”
But Friday afternoon, standing in front of one of the three buildings, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer threatened to block the plan, unless there was first a process by which community residents could have a say in the decision. More
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on January 16th, 2012 10:12amThere was a microphone set up for members of the audience at a town hall-style meeting in the patriotically decorated auditorium of P.S. 216, the Arturo Toscanini School in Gravesend. But teacher Scott Krivitsky walked past it and put his arm right around city schools chancellor Dennis Walcott.
“You and I are very, very similar,” Krivitsky said. More
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on January 12th, 2012 1:56pm“The favorite part of the day, was just actually waiting in line,” 29-year-old Ondrea Gilbert said. “We get to talk about what we love about her so much, singing the songs and all that, and that’s what the fun part of that is. Of course, to see her as well, but because we’ve been doing this, coming out to see her for a long time, we love that.” More
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on January 11th, 2012 9:28am
