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| | | | | | My evening at Palma seemed as though it was off to a great start. It was an uncharacteristically crisp August night and the restaurant had its storefront encosure removed. My dining partner and I scored an excellent table that looked onto Cornelia St. Cafe’ - one of West Village’s few remaining venu... Read More | | | | | | You’ve got to understand something. I’m not a cab driver. I’m just a guy who drives a cab. If I were a cab driver - one like most of those guys you find behind the wheel when you open the door to your yellow chariot in New York - I’d be working six days a week. So I’d have many more stories with ... Read More | | | | | | Swing Vote Directed by Joshua Michael Stern Angelina Jolie will have to adopt a lot more babies to make up for the pollution of life-denying movies like Wanted. Our celebrity-worshipping culture rarely asks actors to account for their film choices as political choices. (Even the ubiquitous movie-s... Read More | | | | | | The Dominican family festival kicks off Friday, July 18 running for two weekends — July 18-20 and then again July 25 -27 on Clay Avenue. The Bronx Dominican parade will be take place on July 27 along the Grand Concourse. via: Bronx Latino, Photo credit: Palma Mir via Flickr.com Read More | | | | | | Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot Directed by Adam Yauch The Wackness Directed by Jonathan Levine Midway through 2008, something surprising has happened: Two films with human dimension and artful expression—Adam Yauch’s Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot and Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness—have flushed the toilet o... Read More | | | | | | Battle for Haditha Directed by Nick Broomfield Nick Broomfield isn’t a media star or critics’ favorite like Michael Moore, Ken Burns or Errol Morris, but he’s made some of the best recent documentaries in decades. In Driving Me Crazy, Biggie and Tupac and other films, Broomfield departed from the ... Read More | | | | | | Like so many other teenage boys, I too had to suffer through my own high school production of Bye Bye Birdie. I played boy-next-door Hugo and watched another friend—taller, with the ability to grow actual sideburns—swiveling his hips in his best Elvis impersonation as the star, Conrad Birdie. That’s... Read More | | | | | | Stop-Loss Directed by Kimberly Peirce Agreat wartime film like Preston Sturges’ Hail the Conquering Hero never let a character ask, “What the hell happened to these guys?” as does Michele (Abbie Cornish), a young Texan woman in the new wartime movie Stop-Loss. Heroism was implicit in Hollywood’s W... Read More | | | | | | The mural at the Palm.A Tribeca luxury condo, 200 Chambers, is confronting an unspeakable problem not unlike the one Gordon Ramsay at the London caused. A memo to residents, reprinted by Curbed, reads: “Many of you are aware that The Palm restaurant officially opened last Friday and that cooking an... Read More | | | | | | Two new DVD releases—Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil (Universal) and Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi (Warner Brothers)—revive the controversial movie year 1958. It was a year that divided movie lovers from cinephiles, the Motion Picture Academy from critics, scholars from audiences. Those old arguments stretch... Read More | | | |
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