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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Nearly two weeks after the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in the Bronx, Al Sharpton and a lawyer for the victim's family called on all levels of government to investigate the shooting death.
“We are prepared to do what is necessary now to escalate this dialogue until the city has to deal with his death and justice for his family,” Sharpton said this morning, referring to the victim, Ramarley Graham. More
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on February 13th, 2012 2:40pmA day after the Department of Education voted to close or cut 23 schools, city schools chancellor Dennis Walcott asked the cameras to record his handshake with United Federation of Teachers head Michael Mulgrew. More
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on February 10th, 2012 5:34pmSteve Schmidt, a political strategist for Bush and Cheney and campaign adviser to John McCain, agrees with the pro-Obama Democrats who say there's no real comparison between the Democratic primary of 2008 and the Republican primary of 2012. More
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on February 9th, 2012 6:25pmOn the 15th floor of Columbia University’s International Affairs Building, about 200 people listened last night as Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Jennifer Egan speculated on the pros and cons of technology, the benefits of escapism, and why people are attracted to a digitized version of Stalinist apartment blocks. More
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on February 8th, 2012 8:27am“Every time this issue comes up, they try to take it away," Rangel said. "First, just because it’s the city of New York and second, because they have a majority now and they’re taking advantage of it.” More
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on February 6th, 2012 5:36pmCity Councilman Charles Barron, a former Black Panther (who is not Muslim), delivered the rally’s most provocative speech.
“Don’t be angry at the social forecaster,” he said. “Just like you don’t get angry at the weatherman for forecasting the storm, you don’t blame them for the storm. Don’t blame me, the social forecaster, for telling you if you don’t get your act together, there’s going to be an uprise in New York City that you’ve never seen before. And you will not be allowed to govern us anymore.” More
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on February 4th, 2012 4:18pm“It’s unacceptable,” Al Sharpton said, of the gerrymandered district lines released last Friday by the state legislature’s redistricting task force. ”Why do we have to say we’ll lose a black seat in Buffalo to have an Asian seat downstate?” More
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on February 2nd, 2012 11:09amIf Twin Peaks is remembered for anything, it’s the strangeness. David Lynch's early 1990s cult hit was loaded with peculiar scenes, oddball characters, backwards talking, and of course a lady who just adored logs. It also had its share of boundary-pushing naughtiness (strange-naughty, to be sure), mostly centered on One Eyed Jack's, the casino/brothel where lots of the sexiest and creepiest scenes took place. Yet where early-'90s ABC sensibilities left the scope of the sexiness rather limited, latter-day Lynchians are free to turn up the raunch as high as they like. More
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on January 31st, 2012 11:50amLate last week, former governor David Paterson spoke to 200 young lawyers, many of them recent law-school graduates, at the Hilton’s Gramercy Ballroom. It was the keynote address of a week-long convention of the New York State Bar Association, which drew 5,000 people from across the state. More
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on January 30th, 2012 5:11pmLast night, 35 of Brooklyn’s most committed Obama supporters chose to watch the State of the Union at a bar in Park Slope.
Park Slope for Obama, which organized the viewing party at the Black Horse Pub, is one of the small groups patterned after the ones that sprang up in 2007-2008 in New York to work phones, distribute leaflets and write letters to swing-state voters on Barack Obama’s behalf. More
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on January 25th, 2012 3:26pm
