Word: tribeca
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...different way. He worked the energy of the Boston jazz scene and cityscape into a full-length feature film. His film, “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” began as his senior thesis and showed at New York City’s celebrated Tribeca Film Festival...
...That wealth has allowed Qatar's rulers to chart a pragmatic and flexible foreign policy that has them making friendly with Iran and Syria while hosting American military forces. Now the country wants to become a regional cultural and media hub. Last year Qatar hosted a version of the Tribeca Film Festival, while private investors put together a $200 million fund to jump-start the local film industry. While there have been some cutbacks on salaries and benefits at state-run news network al-Jazeera, according to disgruntled employees, the operation continues to set the news agenda across the Middle...
...much more Mean Streets than Manhattan. "You couldn't get a cab to take you down there," she recalls of her Tribeca neighborhood. But she fell in with a community of artists and made money fixing up loft spaces with Philip Glass, who was driving a cab by day and performing at night. "I would sand the floors and put up these Sheetrock walls, and [he] would do the plumbing," she says. "And I'd tell Philip, 'You have to sign these pipes. You're going to be really famous.' He was like, 'Aw, shut...