Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'chopshop'
February 28, 2008
Another Will Ferrell sports flick will inflate this weekend, capping off a nationwide “Funny or Die” promotional tour that brought him to Radio City Music Hall Sunday night. The movie is Semi-Pro, which stars Ferrell as Jackie Moon, owner of the 1976 Flint Michigan Tropics, a team in the maverick ABA basketball league. To keep his career alive against all odds, Moon initiates off a series of increasingly desperate publicity stunts to attract fans –......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movie Forecast: Balls Vs. Babes"January 17, 2008
Yesterday the police announced they arrested 61 people for larceny and insurance fraud after they sold their cars for parts and tried to claim they were stolen. The NYPD actually ran the Queens "chop shop" where customers would typically have a middleman drop off their cars. The arrestees include an NYPD officer, a school safety officer, a city buildings inspector, an area hospital's security director and a registered sex offender. The Post reports the cop......
Continue Reading "Chop Shop Sting Nets 61 People, Including Cop"October 9, 2007
Man Push Cart (directed by Ramin Bahrani) You might grab a coffee and a bagel from the corner coffee cart every morning for years, but still never know much about the guy working inside. In director Ramin Bahrani's first feature film he tells the story of one push cart vendor, a Pakastani named Ahmad who's struggling with his past as well as his cart. Shot in Queens and midtown, Man Push Cart puts a flawed......
Continue Reading "The Cinecultist's Weekly DVD Pick: Worker Bee Edition"March 5, 2007
NY Mag's Best of New York is out. Want to know what's good in your hood? Here's a handy little chart that will direct you to just that. Here's a glance at some of the more fun categories: Best impromptu dance party: No Malice Palace, 197 East 3rd Street (take that cabaret laws!). Best zoo animal: Sasha the Siberian tiger, Bronx Zoo. Cheap men's haircut: Frank's Chop Shop, 19 Essex Street. (Wu-Tang Clan and actor......
Continue Reading "Best of..."January 29, 2007
MOVIE: Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island is...a real movie! With a plot and everything! Wanna hear it?: "Jack Jones, a pledge in Zeta Alpha Rho Fraternity must battle homophobia and a killer clown during his fraternity's Hell Night." Sounds pretty deep. 7pm // Two Boots Pioneer Theater [155 E 3rd St] // $10 MUSIC: Unless you scored Peter Bjorn and John tickets, there's really nothing to do musically around here tonight. Unless you really love......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In"March 30, 2006
The Tribeca Film Festival is coming up fairly soon (April 25th to May 7th). We'll be covering the fest - from films to panels, but in the meantime, we just received this important news from a press release: Music fans won’t want to miss Alexandra Patsavas, The O.C. music supervisor and founder of Chop Shop, and The O.C. creator, Josh Schwartz as they discuss the growing phenomenon of breaking new bands through television and film.......
Continue Reading "The Bait Shop in NY"
