The Robyn Party is turning 10 this year, and founders/DJs Russ Marshalek, Marley Magaziner and Chris Choyce are taking the party bi-coastal and international to celebrate.
With the Academy Award nominees having been announced most of the films will now be on the radar of moviegoers around the world. Many of the films will also get boosts at the box office due to expansions from their distributors and some of them even become box office hits. So how did the films fare after the nominations?
"Brooklyn" will make you cry. It is the kind of movie filled with melancholy that anyone leaving home can fully understand. It is a movie about the passage into full-blown adulthood and the coming to terms with one's identity. There might some disappointments in the film, but they are microscopic compared to the glorious acting and filmmaking on display.
Immigration is one of the most sought after topics currently being debated in the political landscapes and is also being seen throughout the world. It is also the subject of the latest film by John Crowley, "Brooklyn" which is premiering at the New York Film Festival and scoring rave reviews.
Every year distributors campaign to land a Best Picture nomination with some repeatedly getting nominated every year. Others are unlikely despite big pushes and having huge films. Here is a look at five distributors that will definitely get Best Picture nominations this year.
"I fell into a burning ring of fire, I went down, down, down as the flames went higher. And it burns, burns, burns. The ring of fire, the ring of fire." - Johnny Cash
The legendary Johnny Cash knew a lot about fire and its blazing burn, but if he had the chance to attend this year's Third Annual New York City Hot Sauce Expo in Brooklyn, he'd most likely pen a new tune for the array of burning flavors that are worthy of a hit song.
Chocolatier and founder of MarieBelle New York (SoHo) Mariben Lieberman has a refined palate, a worldly perspective, and an extraordinary expertise in cacao as evidenced by her signature artisanal ganache, equisitely roasted coffee, and world-class Aztec Hot Chocolate.
How do you find the extraordinary in the ordinary? What makes a performer truly come alive on stage?
After recently watching Brooklyn-based, Venezuelan-born, singer, dancer, artist and storyteller, Migguel Anggelo perform "Between Dreams / Entre Sueños" to a sold-out crowd at Joe's Pub at the Public in New York, I was reminded of how life can imitate art and art can imitate life.
Brooklyn has experienced a tremendous influx of well-off and well-educated white residents, who are not only driving up the cost of living in the area and introducing expensive businesses, but also effectively and rapidly "gentrifying" the borough's jury pool, morphing courtroom decisions, and altering verdicts, according to some local lawyers.
New York police are searching for the man who used a knife to stab two young children as they were on their way to get ice cream in East New York, Brooklyn Sunday evening.
He is a two-time Academy Award winner who's known for his dramatic roles in "Mystic River," "Dead Man Walking;" he's tugged at our heartstrings through his roles as a father with a developmental disability in "I Am Sam" and as a gay rights activist and politician, Harvey Milk, in "Milk."
Now, he's taken on another dramatic role, but this time it's a real-life drama.
Selena Gomez performed a tearful rendition of her song "Love Will Remember" at her concert in Brooklyn on Wednesday, and many are thinking it could be related to her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber.
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