A New World Order? Looking at AFI and Doha Tribeca Fests
indieWIRE
I traveled to two festivals on opposite ends of the globe last week and saw two vastly different approaches to adapting large film events to the new economic realities. My flight from New York to Doha, the capital of Qatar, was clearly a fl...
Jay-Z’s Bid for King of the Hill
New York Times
Jay-Z’s opening lines set up an adventure in geography and class, while at the same time rooting him in hard-knock bona fides: “I’m out that Brooklyn, now I’m down in TriBeCa/Right next to De Niro, but I’ll be hood forever.”
Photos: TripAdvisor Touts Ten Holiday Hotel Hideouts to Shake the ...
MSN Money
Made up of two suites and a studio, Nicolena's is a stylish Tribeca holiday haven. Access to the subway and renowned restaurants and shops make it easy to enjoy the city in all its holiday splendor before stealing away to large but cozy roo...
Photos: TripAdvisor Touts Ten Holiday Hotel Hideouts to Shake the Season's Stress
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
TripAdvisor®, the world's most popular and largest travel community, today announced its second installment of the Go/No Go Index, surfacing "holiday hotel hideouts" in ten major U.S. cities.
Could it be true that hip-hop's hottest couple is planning to have a ...
ABC News
Could it be true that hip-hop's hottest couple is planning to have a baby? The famously-tight-lipped Jay-Z, who wed Beyonce in a secret ceremony on the roof of their apartment building in the Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca in April 2008 ...
Smaller turnout at school hearing, but lots of anger
The Villager
A second and final hearing last week on the Department of Education’s plan to relocate Greenwich Village Middle School from its crowded Village school building to a new Financial District home attracted even fewer people than the first spar...
For Madoff Auction, Even Jewels Lack Luster
New York Times
Viviane Giangola, a real estate agent from TriBeCa who collects Sopranos and New York Rangers memorabilia, pointed out a pair of golf shoes a few feet down from an empty wet suit collapsed on the floor, near a Boogie board with the name “ma...
Comedy Below Canal With Pete Holmes, Kumail Nanjiani, Kurt Braunohler ...
A.V. Club
Comedy Below Canal With Pete Holmes, Kumail Nanjiani, Kurt Braunohler And Sara Schaefer at 92Y Tribeca Pete Holmes is just one of those guys you want to see succeed. His short films are clever. His appearances on VH-1 don’t grate ...
Film great turns beady eye on Hollywood
New Zealand Herald
Robert De Niro is impressive when he stands before the opening night crowd at the Tribeca Film Festival, the annual downtown New York event he co-founded with his producing partner, Jane Rosenthal. If you believe Matt Damon, he was also imp...
International Forecaster November 2009 (#4) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More
GoldSeek.com
The following are some snippets from the most recent issue of the International Forecaster. For the full 17 page issue, please see subscription information below.
Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins]
Gizmodo
Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. For nearly the first year of her life, her...
Black Dynamite Comes to the Bay Area
Examiner
Ultimately, Bay Area theaters chose not to screen it - despite it's success at both Tribeca and Sundance - so OakUFF Festival Director Kahlil Karn and Media Director Colette Washington decided to step in (and up) and screen the film themsel...
Amnesty International and Award-Winning 'Dirty Secrets, Dirty War' Author David Cox Link Up on Human Rights Abuses
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Award-winning human rights author David Cox and Amnesty International will be hosting a special event on November 17th at 7:00 pm at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Tribeca.
