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To Be Heard, A Documentary

Lives and language on the edge: Three teens from Bronx tell their stories of friendship, love and struggle, and show how a radical poetry class can ignite change.
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[Movies] South Bronx Teens Make Bodegas Documentary

Here is a good way to go into the weekend: a funny, engaging documentary about one of New York's most lamented food deserts, made by the teenagers who live there....
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[Movies] John Patrick Shanley Hits Provincetown

Playwright John Patrick Shanley, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Doubt” and an Oscar for his screenplay for “Moonstruck,” was born in the Bronx, the setting for “Five Corners” (1987), which is being screened on Tuesday, February 1, 2011....
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[Movies] Shooting Wraps On 'Gun Hill Road'

Shooting has successfully wrapped in New York's Bronx borough on Rashaad Ernesto Green's first feature-length film, "Gun Hill Road," its producers said....
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[Movies] Biopic About Linda Lovelace

Rumors that Lindsay Lohan has been fired from Inferno, the new movie biopic about Linda Lovelace, have been squelched by the producers. ...
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[Movies] The Story Of The New York Accent

From Atlantic Avenue to Zerega Avenue, word on the street is the New York accent is disappearing — a casualty of a city that has evolved into a vast expanse of banks, H&Ms and glass-blown high-rises. ...
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[Movies] The Bronx Taught Me To Fight

Wesley Snipes claims he could take on anyone in a fight....
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[Movies] Bronx - The Brithplace Of A Culture

Handal Gomez Abdelrahim wants to restore Fred Astaire to his rightful place as one of the original b-boys. In a short film, Graffiti Nation, that will screen on Oct. 23 at the International Independent Film & Video Festival in Manhattan, Mr. Abdelrahim, a resident of West 238th Street in Kingsbridge, juxtaposes clips of soft-shoe work by Fred Astaire with John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever....
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[Movies] Bronx Princess, The Film

Rocky Otoo, the main subject of PBS’s new documentary “Bronx Princess,” is not your average American teenager. And yet, as filmmakers Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed document Rocky’s life as she graduates from high school, travels to Ghana to live with her father, and begins college life, she feels pretty relatable....
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[Movies] The Buddha Play Review

The themes espoused in the play are timeless and especially timely, as we Americans now pause and consider our values, examine our place in the world, and rethink what is of importance....
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[Movies] Youth Film & Poetry Program Concludes

The Full Circle Project held its final session of the summer in Co-op City with local high school youth in an accelerated multimedia course in filmmaking and performance poetry....
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[Movies] A Bronx Filmmaking Program

Students in the Bronx completed the second annual filmmaking and poetry program called The Full Circle Project, a six week course in filmmaking technologies and performance poetry. During the last days of the sessions, students finished their personal short films, which will be showcased in an online exhibition in the fall....
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[Movies] Cpt. Abu Read, A Film About Courage

Hopefully the film, Captain Abu Raed, will be distributed in all the big movie chains. It is a movie well worth seeing. The story, taking place in Amman, Jordan, is about humanity and its mixtures of life's abrupt cruelties, unexpected kindnesses, hopes and sacrifices....
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[Movies] Long Distance NY Premiere

Abiyot is one of several African long distance runners, trying to make a living and career in the US. Once he was a promising member of the Ethiopian national team, but two years ago he left his country to start a new life in the Bronx....
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[Movies] 7th Annual Bronx Independent Film Festival

The Bronx Stage & Film Company will present the 7th Annual Bronx Independent Film Festival (BXFF) June 18 - 20 at Lehman Stages (Lehman College) showcasing narrative and documentary films and filmmakers from around the world....
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[Movies] Speed Racer

Speed Racer looks really good. I'll give them that. The story wasn't really for me but there was nothing particularly wrong with it either....
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[Movies] Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

A few things have changed since the first Chronicles of Narnia film arrived on the scene. In the sequel, Prince Caspian, the principal actors are a little older and more proficient....
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[Movies] Horton Hears A Who!

Horton the Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists....
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[Movies] Run Fatboy Run

Never in a million years would have I imagined that what I saw tonight would have sprung from the minds of those that brought it to me....
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[Movies] The Incredible Hulk Movie

"The Incredible Hulk" kicks off an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic of one of the most popular super heroes of all time....
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To Be Heard, A Documentary

Lives and language on the edge: Three teens from Bronx tell their stories of friendship, love and struggle, and show how a radical poetry class can ignite change.
image

South Bronx Teens Make Bodegas Documentary

Here is a good way to go into the weekend: a funny, engaging documentary about one of New York's most lamented food deserts, made by the teenagers who live there.
image

John Patrick Shanley Hits Provincetown

Playwright John Patrick Shanley, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Doubt” and an Oscar for his screenplay for “Moonstruck,” was born in the Bronx, the setting for “Five Corners” (1987), which is being screened on Tuesday, February 1, 2011.
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Shooting Wraps On 'Gun Hill Road'

Shooting has successfully wrapped in New York's Bronx borough on Rashaad Ernesto Green's first feature-length film, "Gun Hill Road," its producers said.
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Biopic About Linda Lovelace

Rumors that Lindsay Lohan has been fired from Inferno, the new movie biopic about Linda Lovelace, have been squelched by the producers.
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The Story Of The New York Accent

From Atlantic Avenue to Zerega Avenue, word on the street is the New York accent is disappearing — a casualty of a city that has evolved into a vast expanse of banks, H&Ms and glass-blown high-rises.
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The Bronx Taught Me To Fight

Wesley Snipes claims he could take on anyone in a fight.
image

Bronx - The Brithplace Of A Culture

Handal Gomez Abdelrahim wants to restore Fred Astaire to his rightful place as one of the original b-boys. In a short film, Graffiti Nation, that will screen on Oct. 23 at the International Independent Film & Video Festival in Manhattan, Mr. Abdelrahim, a resident of West 238th Street in Kingsbridge, juxtaposes clips of soft-shoe work by Fred Astaire with John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
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Bronx Princess, The Film

Rocky Otoo, the main subject of PBS’s new documentary “Bronx Princess,” is not your average American teenager. And yet, as filmmakers Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed document Rocky’s life as she graduates from high school, travels to Ghana to live with her father, and begins college life, she feels pretty relatable.
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The Buddha Play Review

The themes espoused in the play are timeless and especially timely, as we Americans now pause and consider our values, examine our place in the world, and rethink what is of importance.

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Dr. Chiledum Ahaghotu

is Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of Urology, Howard University Hospital. He is also a professor and a chief of urology at Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Ahaghotu is a Consultant Member of the American Urological Association Health Policy Council. He was President, R. Frank Jones Urological Society, Past President, Washington Urological Society, and a member of the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council.