Coming Up: Nature Film Series Starts Oct.3
The 2012 Focus on Nature Film Series at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville will run from Wednesday, Oct. 3, to Wednesday, Oct. 24 and features five film screenings, each combined with Q & A discussions about the natural environment and the passion and poetry it inspires. The Oct. 3 opening night includes a screening of Birders: The Central Park Effect, a Q&A with filmmaker Jeffrey Kimball an...
Cool Finds: Rockefeller State Park Preserve
PLEASANTVILLE--The Rockefeller State Park Preserve is a wonderful place. Conveniently located, with entrances in Pleasantville and Tarrytown it has an extensive network of trails, originally for carriage use. It's an ideal location for a morning run, afternoon hike or evening stroll. The trail is open to equestrians; horses are often on the trails and are fun to spot. The preserve is highly popular with t...
Cool Finds: 450 Summer Movies
MOUNT PLEASANT-- Feel like you’re watching the same summer movie (just with a different title) over and over again? No need to fear! The Jacob Burns Film Center and Media Arts Lab has curated a collection of 450 DVDs, which are housed at the Mount Pleasant Public Library. All library card-holders in the county are welcome to enjoy the collection. With classic, foreign and new releases, the assort...
Farmers Markets are Back this Weekend
The Community Markets summer Farmers Markets return Saturday May 26! This will be the organization's 21 st season of managing local farmers markets in Croton-on-Hudson, Larchmont, Mamaroneck Indoor (closed for season), New Rochelle (opens June 22), Ossining, Pleasantville, Rye, and Tarrytown. “Since 1991, when we started our first farmers market in Ossining, the goal has always been to connect...
Hollywood on Hugenot- Movies in New Rochelle
NEW ROCHELLE-- Nice piece in New Rochelle Now about 4 modern movies about, or filmed in, New Rochelle: Catch Me if You Can, Michael Clayton, Good Fellas and City Slickers 2. Let's not forget the Thanhouser Film Studios of 1909-1918 was one of the first movie studios in the country, The studio is noted for filming the first serial in motion pictures, named The Million Dollar Myster...
This Weekend
A selection of Friday- Sunday events from theLoop Events Calendar: Shelter Cats Photographs @ Mamaroneck Library Infini String Quartet @ Mamaroneck Library Light Matter" Exhibition and Opening Reception SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE POOR FOOLS Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson NY Regional Premiere Needlework Workshops Pet Rescue Job Interview Skills Love M...
Jean Marie Stein says:
It is a very sad state of affairs when, even at the local level, we allow the elected elite to dictate whom we should vote for. I hope people will take the time to learn about the two candidates and make their own decision based on their personal evaluation. Read carefully, Myers says she did a lot of work and preparation to pick her predecessor and that she didn't know Tom was interested. How would anyone know she was not running until she announced it? Tom Murphy is a fine candidate and I hope people will take the time to hear what he is all about.J Mill says:
Let's be clear - the truest thing he said was "spoiled brats". A bus full of evil kids from Scarsdale who were chucking stuff at the bus driver? I'm sure their parents were nowhere to be found. Rich, entitled kids showing a lack of respect for their elders and making fun of people in less-than-white collar jobs.Cabby says:
With Parker having the support of Otis, Myers, Latimer and Bramson, Tom's chances of winning a primary are slim to nothing.Cabby says:
And Petco was a Duane Reade for a very short period of time. What were they thinking when they opened across the street from CVS?WTF??? says:
closing Weaver Street Bridge before the school year ends ? how did local officials let THAT happen ? INSANE. I saw that children will still be able to walk but still crazy, they are going to have the mother of all traffic jams on Chatsworth bridge and Rockland won't be much better ...crazy they could not schedule this for July/ August / wait just three more weeks.J. Mark Lane says:
Agreed. Breast cancer (like all cancers) does not care what your economic or social circumstances are. And the fatality rates are inversely related to access to medical care (preventive care and treatment). And that access has both a geographic component and an economic component. And also an education component. None of that should be the case. But it is. Jolie is in fact brave, for bringing her experience public even though it will negatively impact her sex-goddess status, on which she relies for her profession. There are a lot of people on this planet working to increase access to cancer treatment. My own efforts, humble though they are, have mostly been via the Komen organization (which, despite "political" problems, still gives more to BC work than any group on earth). We just have to keep plugging away at it. There's really no choice. Everyone can contribute something. What Angelina Jolie has contributed is huge, even if she does nothing else (which I doubt). Respect, for that.anonymous says:
I obviously respect her opinion but I am in totally different camp. It's like celebrities can't win. AJ made a decision based on her personal circumstances and decided to share it. She could have kept it a secret and helped no one. Instead, she has probably made many women feel better about having to go through something pretty life-altering. (She did minimize the pain/recovery aspect which is unfortunate but if that is her experience then what else could she say.) It seems that nothing is ever enough for some people. Any time someone does a good deed, people will say they need to do more. I don't think she glamorized her circumstances in any way and I respect her for coming forward and sharing as much as she did. Also, I would be willing to bet she will begin (if she hasn't already) to devote much of her considerable resources to BC research and to making testing and treatment available to low income women. But even if she doesn't and chooses to give all her money to help children in third world nations, don't you think that's her choice?