Michele Thompson, Director of the 92YTribeca

Written by admin on December 28, 2011. Posted in Breaking News

We’ll have a MacArthur Fellow, an Oscar winner and at least one New York Times bestselling author on our stage. We’ll welcome more staffers from The Daily Show than possibly anywhere else in Manhattan (with the exception of their studio, of course). The Daily Show writer Elliott Kalan hosts our monthly Closely Watched Films series,
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An Oscar Sweep For Our Town’s Former Staffer

Written by admin on March 11, 2010. Posted in Editorial, Opinion and Column

You’ll have to indulge us this week while we proudly boast about a native New Yorker who has taken Hollywood by storm with his brave story about the Iraq war and the bizarre ways men find flirting with death sometimes more exciting than flirting with women. Mark Boal, a 37-year-old journalist who graduated from Bronx
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Past Editor Has Big Win at Academy Awards

Written by admin on March 11, 2010. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Mark Boal, the editor of Our Town from March 1997 to March 1998, won an Oscar for his screenplay for The Hurt Locker, a low-budget film about the Iraq war that he created with director Kathryn Bigelow. The film, which also netted “Best Picture,” among other honors, made Bigelow the first woman to win an
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