Posts Tagged ‘Adam Yauch’

Is Local Senator Dan Squadron Becoming a Rock Star?

Written by City & State on . Posted in Breaking News

Is Dan Squadron on the verge of becoming a rock star? In the May 31st Rolling Stone - the magazine’s “Big Issue” – MSNBC’sChris Hayes names Squadron as one of his four choices for “What Should Be Big”, along with “outrage over watering-down of Dodd-Frank Act”, “the death of the solar industry”, and the high-brow culture magazine Jacobin. Writes Hughes,
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Neighborhood Chatter

Written by Marissa Maier on . Posted in News OTDT, Our Town Downtown

800px-Fingerprint_scanner_identification Manhattan Borough Board Unanimously Passes DREAM Act On Thursday, May 17, members of the Manhattan Borough Board unanimously approved New York State DREAM legislation, a number of bills promoting higher education and civic engagement opportunities for students in New York City neighborhoods, regardless of their immigration status. New York City’s immigrant population, the largest of
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Remembering Adam Yauch and Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film

Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot Directed by Adam Yauch 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 of summer movies. Neither is a special effects extravaganza but they stir emotion by emphasizing the human scale
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