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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“I would not … uh,” Maddow said, when an audience member at the Union Square Barnes & Noble ask when she would run for Congress. She stopped to shake her head. “I have a really good job and I don’t want to run for office. Listen, I have a lot of respect for a lot of people who run for office, but I have not met the jurisdiction that would elect me. I don’t want to serve in elected office, but I wish that more people who wanted me to, would, frankly.” More
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on March 30th, 2012 7:26amIt's been more than 30 years since women began to vote in greater numbers than men in presidential elections, and four since Hillary Clinton almost became the Democratic nominee for president.
But of course Hillary didn't make it, and it's going to be at least another four years before a woman is nominated by either of the major parties. More
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on March 29th, 2012 10:27amPublic Advocate Bill de Blasio said he was “heartened” by yesterday’s agreement between the Bloomberg administration and Council Speaker Christine Quinn to give the agency charged with reviewing police complaints more teeth, but said more needed to done to ensure its financial independence. More
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on March 28th, 2012 1:34pmMayor Michael Bloomberg today reiterated his support for a state-level Dream Act, a law that would make tuition aid available to undocumented immigrants.
He also urged national immigration reform, repeating a previous claim that to do otherwise would be gravely damaging to the American economy. More
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on March 27th, 2012 1:54pmAs the Supreme Court hears arguments on Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, Representative Jerry Nadler said he feared what would become of the health care bill in the hands of a “radical and unpredictable” group of justices. More
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on March 26th, 2012 2:01pmFoer has just edited The New American Haggadah, translated from the Hebrew by fellow author Nathan Englander, and the two shared the stage, though their personalities were hardly a match. Foer was there to slowly and clearly tell the story of how their joint project evolved; Englander to frenetically dive into the ideas inside and engage their abstruse mysticism.
It was perhaps unsurprisingly an older crowd, with a smattering of hip and literate looking people in their 20s with possible inclinations toward Gershom Sholem or Walter Benjamin or others conversant as academics in the old Schocken Books canon. More
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on March 23rd, 2012 12:27pm“This is what pink slime looks like,” Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said today, as he held up an especially unappetizing picture of a controversial meat additive. “Not only does it look disgusting, but it’s simply not healthy.” More
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on March 21st, 2012 1:25pmLast week, Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature reached a hard-fought agreement on redistricting state and federal lines in New York State. Now the politics start all over again, this time with the once-a-decade redrawing of the City Council lines. More
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on March 20th, 2012 4:12pmWhen Gopnik wondered aloud whether the sugar-salt food culture of the U.S. could be redirected, Stuckey went on a riff about how Starbucks had, arguably, done just that.
“So that’s where you have companies that come in building businesses using bitter coffee and dark chocolates, and so that starts at the entrepreneurial level, and moves kind of to the center; and we start seeing the preferences for chocolate and for coffee moving ever so slightly to the more bitter, arguably more complex range,” Stuckey said.
But they haven't gone all the way: Starbucks customers load their coffee with whipped cream, sugar and caramel on top. More
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on March 19th, 2012 6:45pmMayor Michael Bloomberg defended the NYPD's response to Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zuccotti Park over the weekend, where attempts to set up camp on the six-month anniversary of the original protests resulted in at least 74 arrests and allegations of police violence. More
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on March 19th, 2012 4:52pm
