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Indiana Jones: The Adaptation by Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb (Brooklyn Underground Film Festival)Indy Indy
Much talked about, but seldom seen, “Indiana Jones: the Adaptation” makes its New York debut as part of the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival this weekend. Filmmaker Chris Strompolos and his friends recreated, shot for shot, the blockbuster movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” over the course of their adolescence and into adulthood. Also on the bill, New York Press film critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s made-in-Brooklyn independent feature “Home.”
Bulls and Bears and Computers
David Wells senior Wall Street correspondent, Financial Times
and
Andre Postelnicu assistant news editor and markets reporter for the Financial Times
- discusses the merger between the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago and other market news
Indy Indy
Chris Strompolos,
filmmaker, Brooklyn Underground Film Festival entrant,
- on the New York premiere of his labor of love "Indiana Jones: The Adaptation," a shot for shot recreation of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," done as an adolescent
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Matt Zoller Seitz,
film director, New York Press film critic and Star-Ledger television columnist,
- on his made-in-Brooklyn film, "Home," and the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival
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Dragon Dance
Philp P. Pan Beijing Correspondent for the Washington Post
- discusses tensions between China and Japan
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Michael Swaine Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace ,br />
- discusses tensions between China and Japan
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New York 51: District 6
Gale Brewer,
City Councilperson (D - District 6, Upper West Side),
- on life and politics in her Upper West Side District
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What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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