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Jennifer Lawrence in Mockingjay
Can The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 keep up with the first two films? Why was the final book split into two movies? Does Katniss even want to be part of this revolution? On this week's Voice Film Club podcast...
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Councilman Brad Lander speaks in front of City Hall about a proposed bill on plastic bags.
New York City Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia knows trash.
So it's not surprising that she has a lot to say about the nuisance -- and dangers -- tha...
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On November 17, New York City announced an ambitious new plan to replace payphones across the five boroughs with nine-and-half-foot pylons beaming free Wi-Fi to any device within a 150-foot radius, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The new network, ...
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If you've ever read a Tom Clancy novel or watched (sigh) HBO's The Newsroom, you've heard someone -- usually a sinister federal agent of some stripe -- say that they can "neither confirm nor deny" whatever horrible thing they're being accused of doin...
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Three of the four graduates with members of the United Women Firefighters
History was made in the Fire Department of New York on Tuesday after four female firefighters graduated from the FDNY Fire Academy, raising to 44 the number of women in a ...
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"Honeybeelujiah!" is secular pastor Reverend Billy's go-to worship catchphrase.
Reverend Billy Talen is taking his merry band of rabble-rousers to Missouri. Not surprisingly, he's prepared to get arrested.
The environmental and anti-capitalist a...
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So a French guy, two Germans, and a Russian climb to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. Stop us if you've heard this one.
Did Lonely Planet add "top of the Brooklyn Bridge" to its list of New York City attractions?Someone should look into that. Becau...
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Time was, this country responded to rape accusations against America's Sweater Dad, Bill Cosby, the same way Cosby's Noah did to God's command that he put two of each animal onto a boat: by saying, "Riiiiiiiiiiigghhhht" and then moving on.
Today, tho...
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It's been a rough year for Rachel Noerdlinger. New York City first lady Chirlane McCray's chief of staff has had her love life, her family, her family's friends, her home, and even her parking tickets -- pretty much everything except the actual work ...
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"Because our generation cares about more than cat videos" - #protestify
In a world of more than 7 billion people, we can probably assume that at any given time, somebody somewhere is protesting something.
And although it's not for lack of trying...
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Cleaning windows in New York City is a tough, thankless, and, quite frankly, terrifying job. The city saw that last week when window washers Juan Lopez and Juan Lizama found themselves trapped on a dangling scaffold outside the 68th floor of 1 World ...
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Juan Lizama, left, and Juan Lopez
When the scaffolding suspending window washers Juan Lopez and Juan Lizama outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center began slipping, Lopez followed the procedures he remembered: He hit the emergency brake. But...
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Our Stephanie Zacharek exults in Marcel Carn's little-seen 1939 crime drama Le Jour Se Lve, hitting Film Forum this week. Zacharek adores star Jean Gabin, who plays a regular joe (or Jean?) whose life spins out of control after he falls for the wro...
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An apparent chokehold during an arrest in September.
In the months since the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner sparked an intense debate about the use of chokeholds as an acceptable police maneuver, Rory Lancman has been adamant that officers...
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The Third Rail is the name of the supporters group for New York City FC, a team that has yet to play a game, put together a full squad, or find a permanent stadium. And up until the 11 a.m. hour on Thursday, they didn't know what their team's jerse...
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Sheldon Silver is willing to trade less Albany corruption for a higher salary.
The perennial call for higher salaries in the New York legislature was heard again this week, although it's probably more of a whisper at this point. As the Daily News ...
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Construction continues on November 12 at the Brooklyn parole headquarters in Gowanus.
If a good compromise is one in which neither side is happy, then New York's prison system leaders should be proud of themselves for angering just about everyone ...
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See also: Woman Reports Being Raped in Central P...
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Winter 2013-14 was a real pain.
Last winter, after parts of the eastern United States, including NYC, suffered an extended cold snap that broke all-time records in some places, the media latched onto the term: "polar vortex." It sounded movie-ti...
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It's a special Daily Show edition of the Voice Film Club podcast, as we talk about Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher (starring Steve Carell) and move on to Rosewater, the movie Jon Stewart left The Daily Show for three months in 2013 to direct. Both are in...
