At the Tribeca Film Festival this year, female directors made up about one third of the program and took the fest’s top three awards. Debut features included The Boy Downstairs, a rom-com by Stophie Brooks starring Zosia Mamet of Girls, and My Art, a meta drama by Laurie Simmons, featuring a brief appearance by the artist’s daughter, Lena Dunham.
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Tribeca Talks Lineup: Bruce Springsteen, Lena Dunham, Noah Baumbach, and More
The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled its lineup a few weeks ago, and now comes the second big reveal: the lineup of Tribeca Talks, which last year featured J.J. Abrams and Francis Ford Coppola, among others. If you couldn’t bring yourself to shell out $1,000 to see Bruce Springsteen on his book tour, well, good news: You’ll have a chance to see him for a smidge less ($40) when tickets for his talk with America’s other sweetheart, Tom Hanks, go on sale tomorrow, March 21, at Tribeca’s site. The convo will happen April 28 at the Beacon Theatre.
Manhattan Inn Says Goodbye; Lena Dunham Gets Odeon Tattoo
To say sayonara to Greenpoint after seven years, The Manhattan Inn‘s concerts will be admission-free through November 13. [DNA Info]
According to real estate site StreetEasy, 68 percent of New York City dwellers who relocated last year sought out cheaper nabes. [Buzz Buzz Home]
New tenants are being courted for the Second Avenue building currently housing the Ukrainian Sports Club. [EV Grieve] More →
Katz’s Deli Expands to Brooklyn; Lena Dunham’s New Show
New mural by Dasic Fernandez on St. Marks. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Yesterday morning a 37-year-old woman died after being crushed by a semi truck near the border of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy. [Patch]
Thursday night a Greenpoint man was attacked and robbed by two assailants outside his Freeman Street residence. [The Brooklyn Paper]
Two thieves stole Apple products and camera equipment from a Thames Street apartment in Williamsburg one week ago. [The Brooklyn Paper]
What Would Make Someone Say ‘I Want to Kill Lena Dunham’?
Sure, there’s such a thing as too many Lenas — but, come on: what would drive someone to say, “I want to kill Lena Dunham?”
That’s the provocative title of one of the pop-culture-inspired productions at this year’s Fringe Festival. The ominous threat serves as a canary in the coalmine of modern American culture — an attempt at an artistic antidote to the whimsical Williamsburg of Dunham’s Girls.
9 Pop Culture Homages at Fringe Festival, From Lena Dunham to Patrick Bateman
Jacqui Rêgo (Photo by Bailey Carr)
Next week thousands of theater patrons will once again descend on Lower Manhattan for the 19th annual NYC Fringe Festival. “Fringe theater” usually denotes plays located on the edge of something (the mainstream, the city, a performer’s sanity). With 200 shows on offer, several seem to occupy the fringe between high culture and low, floating somewhere between stage, screen and page. These nine offer you the chance to Kill Dunham, Channel Spock and “Van Gogh Fuck Yourself.”
Lena Dunham Favorite Appropriate Behavior Opens Next Month
Nearly a year after we caught it at Sundance, Desiree Akhavan’s first film, Appropriate Behavior, is finally hitting theaters.
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L Riders Are Defacing and Defaming Lena Dunham (Again)
(Photo: Jada Yuan via Twitter)
Thought right-wing bloggers were the only ones slagging on Lena Dunham? Doodles on her subway ads say otherwise.
“Writers like this make empty a reality,” wrote an amateur critic (in cursive, no less) over crossed-out out blurbs from the Times, David Sedaris and George Saunders. Followed by: “Become More Than This.”
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You Need to Go to Therapy With Lena Dunham
(Photo: Anna Silman)
So, Happy Ending is set to reopen under new ownership. But for literary types, the place just won’t be the same without the Happy Ending Reading Series that Amanda Stern hosted there starting in 2003.
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Lena Dunham’s Lowline-Print Dress Fetched $3K at Last Night’s ‘Anti-Gala’
Spike Jonze and Lena Dunham. The Charlie Chaplin hat was also auctioned off. (Photos courtesy of Andrew Einhorn and Jammi York)
Last time the Lowline threw an “anti-gala” (i.e., a gala but cooler) Adrian Grenier and others raised $30,000 for the proposed underground park. It’s uncertain just how much Lena Dunham and her co-host, the Lower East Side’s own Spike Jonze, raised at a $1,500-a-head dinner last night, but we can tell you this much: not only was Dunham’s Lowline-print dress fetching, but it fetched $3,000 at auction.
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