Film

From Hollywood To Broadway

by Jonathan Mandell
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New York

Broadway Slideshow Quiz

by Jonathan Mandell
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Here are some shows that have opened on Broadway so far this season. Can you identify them?
For clues, check out Broadway 2009 season (or just look at the captions)

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Art

New York City, A Wilderness

by Jonathan Mandell
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Welcome to New York City, site not just of the Empire State Building, the United Nations headquarters, Broadway, Madison Avenue, and Wall Street, but also of “the craggy highlands of Manhattan, the sea-facing marshes of Brooklyn, the rocky, Maine-like coastline of the Bronx, and the nearly impenetrable forests of Queens and Staten Island,” according to [...]

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Festival

33rd annual Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, November 12-15, 2009

by Jonathan Mandell
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The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival at The American Museum of Natural History is the longest-running documentary film festival in the United States. This year’s almost three dozen films includes on opening night movie, Cooking History, which is without question one of the weirder documentaries ever made. Its motto: “6 wars, 10 recipes, [...]

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Festival

The Other Israel Film Festival, Nov. 12 to Nov 19, 2009

by Jonathan Mandell
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There are more than a dozen films at the Third Annual Other Israel Film Festival, among them a satire called “Arab Labor”; a documentary, “City of Borders,” about a gay bar in Jerusalem; a portrait of an Arab-Israeli journalist felt caught in the middle (“The Arabs think he’s a collaborator. The Jews think he’s [...]

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Festival

New York’s Indian Film Festival, MIACC 09, Nov 11 to 15, 2009

by Jonathan Mandell
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“Slumdog Millionaire,” “The Namesake,” and a host of other blockbuster India-oriented films had their premieres at a New York festival with a forbidding name — the Mahindra Ido-American Arts Council Film Festival or MIAAC. Starting on Wednesday, November 11th, New Yorkers will have a chance at the ninth annual Indian film festival , MIAAC 2009, [...]

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Film

The Best Movies of 2009? MOMA weighs in

by Jonathan Mandell
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The year 2009 has not ended yet, but of all the movies shown this year the Museum of Modern Art has already selected 20 to be shown in The Contenders, 2009, a 10-week film series of movies that, in the opinion of the museum’s film curators, are “contenders for lasting significance.” Several of the directors [...]

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Art

Filmmaker Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art. Nov 22, 2009 to April 26, 2010

by Jonathan Mandell
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Tim Burton is best known for his films with Johnny Depp and for creating odd monsters, and eerie environments, for the movies. Now the Museum of Modern Art offers a retrospective of his career as a director, producer, and writer, as well as a look at his lesser-known work as a photographer and an illustrator, [...]

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Art

Maker’s Market: Fun Time with DIY at Brooklyn Flea Market

by Irene Fishman

So let’s say it’s the second or fourth Sunday of the month, notoriously the ones most likely to give you trouble for what to do. Here’s your solution! The Maker’s Market! Located at the Old American Can Factory (yes, that’s a real place), you can swing by and enjoy the awesome makings of numerous craftsmen [...]

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Art

Hip Hop Sulha Hits SOB’s

by Irene Fishman

With all the hateration out there, it’s always nice to see a neat event like Hip Hop Sulha! For music lovers all over, check out SOB’s on November 11. Get your tickets right here, they’re a steal at $10 a pop!
Much love to my buddy J Stone, the amazing human beatbox, for spreading this amazing [...]

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Atlanta

Celebrate “Day of the Dead” All Month Long at Rosa Mexicano

by Hunter Gorinson
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Tre swanky “metropolitan Mexican” (you heard it here first) eatery Rosa Mexicano will be shaking off post-Halloween withdrawal pains nationwide with an extended, month-long celebration of Central America’s macabre Day of the Dead festival through November 22nd.

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National

Cate Blanchett’s Kennedy Center Sell-Out

by Hunter Gorinson
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Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett’s turn as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” has not only been drawing rave reviews, but also achieved an all too rare Kennedy Center milestone: a complete and total sell-out of all 24 performances.

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Comedy

2009 New York Comedy Festival, November 4 to November 8, featuring Tracy Morgan, Ricky Gervais, Andy Samberg…and Bruce Springsteen? And Barack Obama?

by Jonathan Mandell
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Every year the New York Comedy Festival features some of the biggest names in comedy in clubs (like Caroline’s) and concert halls (like Carnegie Hall) all over the city, and this year is no different. (here’s the schedule) But this year also features Bruce Springsteen and every living United States president, past and [...]

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New York

New York vs. Philadelphia Weekend – Baseball, Basketball and Football, Then Baseball Again

by Jonathan Mandell
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This weekend, New Yorkers and Philadelphians are battling on three fronts.
In Baseball: On Saturday, Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies will take place in Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia
In Basketball: Also on Saturday, the New York Knicks will be playing the Philadelphia 76ers at [...]

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Music

American Songbook at Lincoln Center January 13 to March 6, 2010: Los Lobos, Chita Rivera, Dirty Projectors, Rufus Wainwright; Tributes to Billie Holliday, Doris Day, Gershwin et al…

by Jonathan Mandell
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Lincoln Center just released its schedule for its 2010 American Songbook series, which runs from January 13th to March 6th and features 19 concerts by singers in a remarkable variety of styles and tributes, from Rufus Wainwright joining a whole mess of other singers in tribute to Jewish songwriters (George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen) [...]

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