Author: Nicolas Renier

  • For Your Consideration – Cannes Preview Edition

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    By Jim Keller Now in its third year, this instalment of For Your Consideration takes a look at those films set to cross the Croisette this month. While the Cannes Film Festival is not primarily known as an Oscar launching vehicle, in recent years it has revealed a glimmer of Oscar’s gold. Last year’s fest…

  • Mistaken for Strangers – A Rock Star’s Brother Peeks Out of His Shadow

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    By Jason Rothauser In the film’s opening sequence, Matt Berninger, nattily dressed in a three-piece suit, fusses with a beach umbrella before finally settling down for an interview in the park. Berninger is the lead singer of The National, an indie rock band who toiled for years in obscurity before making it into the spotlight…

  • Ten Years of Natural Selections

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    By Daniel Briskin Continuing on with our salute to the tenth anniversary of Natural Selections, here are two comics republished from 2004.

  • Sea Change

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    By Michael Hanko and George Barany MH is a NYC voice teacher, writer, and performer; GB is a Rockefeller alum (1977). For more puzzles and for the solution to this month’s puzzle, visit http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle or click here  http://www.chem.umn.edu/groups/baranygp/puzzles/seachange/puzzle.pdf to view this month’s!

  • Scientists Decide: No interesting stories in Science

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    By John Borghi On March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard launched the first ever liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts. Though this test did little to silence the mocking editorials and harsh criticisms that had followed Goddard since his 1920 proposal that liquid-fueled rockets would eventually reach beyond Earth’s atmosphere, it was a major breakthrough in…

  • For Your Consideration – Crystal ball edition!

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    By Jim Keller Last year’s Crystal Ball edition yielded four of nine eventual Best Picture nominees. Gravity, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Nebraska as well as Best Picture winner, 12 Years a Slave, were all discussed as hopefuls long before they bowed. So if you think spring is too early to talk…

  • April Fools!

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    By Aileen Marshall April Fools’ Day is celebrated on April 1. This is the day when it’s common to pull pranks on friends and false news stories run rampant. However, the truth is always revealed later that day. While not an official holiday, the practice is commonly accepted. No one really knows when the tradition…

  • Spring Breaks in April

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    By Susan Russo Special Free Events and Short Excursions Manhattan Macy’s Flower Show When: April 1-6 Where: 34th to 35th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues Tartan Day Parade, with bagpipes, kilts and dancers When: April 5, starting at 2:00 p.m. Where: 45th to 55th Street on Sixth Avenue “Pillow Fight in the Park,” teddy…

  • Ten Years of Natural Selections

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    By Daniel Briskin Continuing on with our salute to the tenth anniversary of Natural Selections, here is this month’s republished comic from 2004.

  • An interview with White Out: The secret life of Heroin author, Michael W. Clune, Ph.D

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    By Bernie Langs I did not know what to expect when I procured a copy of Michael W. Clune’s memoir, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin, after reading a blog review about the book in the New Yorker. I very quickly became engrossed in White Out, consumed by its tale of the author’s life…