Posted inChung, Sonya Cooper, Karen Documentary Films and Programs Film Forum Movies New York City Film Forum Director Karen Cooper to Step Down After 50 Years Karen Cooper, who took over the nonprofit cinema in 1972 and transformed it into a $6 million-a-year operation, will step down in July after five decades. Posted by By Sarah Bahr
Posted inHospitals Montefiore Medical Center Mount Sinai Medical Center New York City New York State Nurses' Assn Nursing and Nurses Shortages Strikes NYC Nurses Prepare to Strike at Mount Sinai and Montefiore Hospitals More than 7,000 nurses at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center are seeking better wages and working conditions. Posted by By Corey Kilgannon and Joseph Goldstein
Posted inArt Deaths (Obituaries) Jazz Movies New York City Photography Snow, Michael Toronto (Ontario) Wavelength (Movie) Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94 He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often contentious) films like “Wavelength.” Posted by By J. Hoberman
Posted inLos Angeles (Calif) New York City San Vicente Bungalows (West Hollywood, Calif) Segal, Fred New York Is Los Angeles Quintessentially Californian institutions are popping up all over Manhattan as New Yorkers embrace sound baths, mocktails and legal marijuana. Posted by By Michael M. Grynbaum