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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Doveman is essentially Thomas Bartlett, 30, and a rotating group of collaborators from across the spectrum of New York performers. Typically a background player, he's played alongside The National, David Byrne, and Antony, but on his own through these salons, surrounded by talented colleagues, he's developed a tidy following. He organized the series in an attempt to re-create similar salons he'd held Chelsea. Since these semi-monthly shows at LPR began last year, they’ve gotten attention from the media for their intimate and impromptu nature. More
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on April 17th, 2012 11:44amChristine Quinn and other city and state legislators met today to advocate a bill that would give the Council more influence over a mayor-controlled body in charge of setting rent increases.
Speaking to reporters at City Hall, Quinn didn’t mention the mayor by name, but questioned why the Council didn’t have the authority to vet mayoral appointees of the nine-member Rent Guidelines Board. More
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on April 16th, 2012 3:39pm“I don’t encourage you to incite, to say this should be in the news more because I find - I believe - that there’s too much opinion, too much negativism in this country that it needs to be just reporting,” she said. “Forgive me for inserting my belief but it’s really wrong, what was creeping negativism has turned into I think so much negativism that reporting has been infiltrated by all this negativism and opinion and it’s just plain wrong”
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on April 13th, 2012 7:26amAs people walked by one of the models, many scrutinized the eight-foot-long drone, then the people standing behind a table who seemed to be connected to it, then back at the drone. Most kept walking, but some engaged the group, or at least took a flyer. More
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on April 12th, 2012 4:55pm“Globalization is I think changing the way that a lot of Americans - not all - but a lot of Americans are looking at the world and seeing the role of the United States in that world,” Mucha said. “So, maybe we’re just sort of in between in that part of the evolution in what people in America are really interested in. At least I hope so.” More
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on April 12th, 2012 9:11amSince fights over sustainable streets usually involve bike lanes, pedestrian plazas and traffic initiatives like congestion pricing, you may be surprised to learn that the city's pothole-strewn black roads are one of New York's greenest components. That's because over the last fiscal year, the city Department of Transportation ripped 300,000 tons of potholed or damaged asphalt off the ground, carted it to city-run facilities and reconstituted it back into usable pavement, effectively recycling the city's roads. More
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on April 11th, 2012 4:50pm"This whole thing in order to cook, you have to be a chef has got things all backwards. The vast minority of people who cook wind up being chefs. No where else in the world, except for the West right now, would anyone ever think that cooking and being a chef was synonymous. There is that tendency around television. Books are a small part, television is really - if ‘blame’ is to be cast television is to blame for that.”
“Well that’s true,” Reich said. “It makes people think that chefs are cooks, which in fact they are C.E.O.’s who run assembly lines, essentially,” Reichl said.
Bittman emphatically agreed.
“For some reason people don’t watch - what’s it called - NASCAR and think they can’t drive a car unless they drive it 180 miles an hour. That’s true right? And they don’t watch tennis, they’d never play tennis unless they can play like – you, know, what’s his name - Djokovic. People don’t think that stuff, but then they think they can’t cook like Bobby Flay, then what’s the point?”
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on April 11th, 2012 7:55am“Just imagine as you come over on the tram from Manhattan, and you look south at the 11 acres that you’ll see,” said Robert Steel, the city’s deputy mayor for economic development.
Steel, one of the leaders of the Bloomberg administration's attempt to attract a technology campus to the city, went on to describe the coming transformation of Roosevelt Island’s soon-to-be disused Coler-Goldwater Hospital into Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute with 2,000 students, 250 staff and 2 million square feet of space. More
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on April 6th, 2012 1:26pmInsisting that his office is “firing on all cylinders,” Comptroller John Liu this afternoon announced a $1.2 million settlement from a Queens-based company guilty of breaking prevailing wage laws and withholding pay from primarily undocumented immigrants.
Liu was joined by several council members and union leaders, who addressed cameras and reporters in the wood-paneled room at the comptroller's One Centre Street offices. More
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on April 4th, 2012 5:14pmIn the face of mounting curiosity about a report his administration commissioned on 911 response times, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his decision to keep it private for now.
“No," he said responding to a reporter's question on whether he would release the report, known as the Call Processing Review. "It’s a preliminary report and we’ll put it in when we get a final report that pulls together all of the relevant data. As you know, we always release those and we’ll do that." More
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on April 3rd, 2012 1:40pm
