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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“A handful of people don’t care about that,” Rangel said. “One, they hate the president. Two, they just want to cut, they want to protect the corporations. It’s embarrassing what we’re going through now. But I can give assurances that the debt ceiling will be raised, and the only people making a sacrifice are not the wealthy people that the Republicans refuse to even consider having them to make an inconvenience rather than pay higher taxes." More
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on July 20th, 2011 5:59pmSunset Park will be the testing ground for a new law empowering qualifying community boards to cancel a day of street-cleaning from each week. The city is hoping that giving communities the ability to effectively award themselves days off from alternate-side parking will entice residents to keep their own streets clean.
Yesterday afternoon, City Council members and city-agency heads met on a shady residential street next to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway to speak to press about the new plan. More
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on July 20th, 2011 2:13pmOn Wednesday night, 18 people sat in a multi-purpose room at Prospect Park Residence, a senior living center at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. Down the hall, bright fliers advertised an electric boat tour in Prospect Park and a rooftop ice cream party earlier that day. But in the Centenarian Room, with stacks of jigsaw puzzles and Reader’s Digest Condensed Books lining the shelves, talk revolved around the heady issue of citywide corruption involving millions of dollars of wasted money, undisclosed contracts and shady financial transactions. More
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on July 15th, 2011 5:01pmA new crop of Democratic State Assembly candidates was officially presented to the world yesterday at Queens Borough Hall as Representative Joe Crowley, chairman of the Queens County Democratic organization, announced his support for Michael Simanowitz and Phillip Goldfeder for September’s special election. More
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on July 12th, 2011 11:10am“One day I walked by, and they were there and I started to talk to them,” Jackson said. “And so, we had a good discussion, about 15 minutes, and the bottom line is this: they asked me to vote ‘no’ on the budget. And I asked them—and I said this on the floor of the stated meeting where we were actually voting on the budget—‘Do you know what it means if I vote no and we, the City Council votes no? Do you really know what it means?’" More
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on July 7th, 2011 3:27pmIt was the first school graduation Dennis Walcott attended as New York City schools chancellor, and already the second time he'd jumped off the stage.
“You know what? I’m going to do things differently,” Walcott said, as he dismounted. “I don’t do things the traditional way.”
He was the keynote speaker at 811K, a public school in Sheepshead Bay, and had dismounted in order to get closer to the students as he handed out awards. But his statement about doing things differently seemed to have a broader meaning than that. More
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on June 21st, 2011 4:28pmHe would like to be able to "continue the work" he was elected to do but "unfortunately the distraction that I created has made that impossible."
He was resigning, "so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative." He, meanwhile, would "continue to heal from the damage I have caused." More
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on June 16th, 2011 4:06pmYesterday morning, on a day that would end with same-sex marriage one vote in the State Senate away from passage in New York State, a group of religious opponents of the proposed new law made what may amount to a last stand at City Hall. More
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on June 15th, 2011 9:02amCouncilman Charles Barron walked to the stairs at City Hall yesterday carrying a small podium bearing the city seal and a dozen activists unfurled a banner and put on stickers that said “Ban Fracking Now.” It was time to start the rally. More
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on June 14th, 2011 10:30amOver the last few weeks, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has loudly protested the city’s proposed budget cuts. He attacked firehouse closures and set up an online forum for parents to vent about teacher layoffs. More
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on June 10th, 2011 1:15pm
