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Raggamuffin set to take summer stages by storm...through spiritually uplifting music. Taking causes to heart, they filed a million dollar lawsuit against New York's Taxi & Limousine Commission when their cabbies refused to pick up blacks and Rastafarians. To express their views, they... In this article: Grammy Award, Shaggy, Steel Pulse, Sean Kingston, Fast Car, Wyclef Jean, and SLY & Robbie |
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L.A. Times - The Envelope - Ultimate Awards Site | September 09, 2009
'9' director Acker among student Oscar winner notables
...2." Spike Lee, whose "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads," won the Dramatic Merit Award for its story of life and redemption in a New York City barbershop, went on to direct such notable features as "Do the Right Thing," "Mo' Better...
In this article: Oscar, Robert Zemeckis, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Ken Kwapis, Toy Story, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Walt Disney Imagineering
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Root Magazine | June 24, 2009
The Music in Spike's Message
...Brooklyn youth who was shot in an Italian-American neighborhood of Bensonhurst, and the eventual election of David M. Dinkins as New York City's first African-American mayor. Not surprisingly, many mainstream critics misread the film.
In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Fight the Power, Rosie Perez, Brooklyn, Ivy League, Fruit of Islam, Lycra, and National Review
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Contactmusic.com | August 30, 2009
Spike Lee - Lee Hosts Party For Jackson On His Birthday
...FOR JACKSON ON HIS BIRTHDAY Caption: Spike Lee (Picture) and Bill Lee, Father and Son attend the 20th Anniversary Screening of 'Do The Right Thing' at Directors Guild of America Theater New York City, USA .... LEE HOSTS PARTY FOR JACKSON...
In this article: Spike Lee, Michael Jackson, Brooklyn, New York City, USA, Directors Guild of America, Marty Markowitz, Bill Lee, and Malcolm X
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CNN | July 20, 2009
'Do the Right Thing' still has something to say
...climax. Then there was its willingness to address issues head-on. Lee has said he wrote the film quickly, upset by racial incidents roiling New York City in the 1980s. (In one, the 1986 Howard Beach tragedy, three black men who had...
In this article: Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, Roger Ebert, She's Gotta Have It, and Italian pizza
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Deseret News | June 28, 2009
'Do The Right Thing' still asks burning questions
...announced Lee's special gifts to the world. The police choke hold that killed Radio Raheem - a fictionalization of the real death of Michael Stewart in New York City - has long been outlawed. Life on the ravaged Brooklyn block where Lee...
In this article: Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, Radio Raheem, Brooklyn, Pizza, E mail, Michael Stewart, Cannes Film Festival, and Black Like Me
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thestar.com | June 30, 2009
Do the Right Thing still as fresh as a black president
...the American Film Institute. Back in June '89, excitable movie critics and reporters for such disparate magazines as Newsweek, New York and Rolling Stone predicted race riots from the film's unresolved tensions. It was journalist's code that...
In this article: Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Academy Awards, Radio Raheem, Public Enemy, Bill Nunn, Driving Miss Daisy, and Malcolm X
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Huffington Post | September 18, 2009
Robert David Jaffee: You're No David Dinkins
All of these events created an atmosphere of searing racial tension in New York. Tom Wolfe would capture the nuances of race in New York at this time in his 1987 novel, Bonfire of the Vanities, in which an African-American honors...
In this article: David Dinkins, Barack Obama, Ed Koch, Bonfire of the Vanities, Hillary Clinton, Joe Wilson, and Rainbow/PUSH
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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
The Coen brothers are cinema's most influential and inventive duo
...store. The Coens' peers were equally green novices such as Sam Raimi, with whom Joel edited the micro-budgeted horror The Evil Dead, and New York hipster Jim Jarmusch, who directed the deadpan black-and-white Stranger than Paradise. "Jim...
In this article: Coen brothers, Jean-Luc Godard, No Country for Old Men, Blood Simple, A Serious Man, Jim Jarmusch, Raising Arizona, and Oscars
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PR Newswire | June 23, 2009
UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS A SPECIAL SCREENING CELEBRATING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF DO THE RIGHT THING AT THE DGA THEATER NEW YORK CITY, NY MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2009, AT 7:30 PM
UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS A SPECIAL SCREENING CELEBRATING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF DO THE RIGHT THING AT THE DGA THEATER NEW YORK CITY, NY MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2009, AT 7:30 PM WHAT: Special screening to celebrate the 20th anniversary of DO THE...
In this article: Do the Right Thing, Universal Pictures, Nelson George, Branford Marsalis, Joie Lee, and Rosie Perez
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New York (/nuːˈjɔrk/) is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment. As host of the United Nations headquarters, it is also an important center for international affairs. The city is often referred to as New York City to differentiate it from the state of New York, of which it is a part.
Located on a large natural harbor on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United States, the city consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. The city's 2007 estimated population exceeds 8.3 million people, and with a land area of 305 sqmi, New York City is the most densely populated major city in the United States. The New York metropolitan area's population is also the nation's largest, estimated at 18.8 million people over 6720 sqmi. Furthermore, the Combined Statistical Area containing the Greater New York metropolitan area contained 22.155 million people as of 2008 Census estimates, also the largest in the United States.
New York was founded as a commercial trading post by the Dutch in 1624. The settlement was called New Amsterdam until 1664 when the colony came under English control. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city since 1790.
- Name:
- City of New York
- Also Known As:
- The Big Apple, Gotham, The City That Never Sleeps, The Capital of The World (Caput Mundi), The Empire City, The City So Nice They Named It Twice, The City.
- Type:
- City
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1624
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 468.9
- Total Area (km):
- 1214.4
- Land Area (sq mi):
- 304.8
- Land Area (km):
- 789.4
- Water Area (sq mi):
- 165.6
- Water Area (km):
- 428.8
- Metro Area (km):
- 17405
- Urban Area (km):
- 8683.2
- Elevation (ft):
- 33
- Elevation (m):
- 10
- Urban Population:
- 18223567
- Time Zone:
- EST
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