New York Drama Critics' Circle

1. Summary of review from the New York Times for the movie, La La Land, published on December 8, 2016 A.O. Scott from the New York Times reviewed La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling on December 8, 2016. As this movie centers a story about a musician and an aspiring actress who fall in love in Los Angeles, Scott thought that La La Land “succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching…

Awards in 1998.She won 3 awards for Up in the Air movie for the Best Supporting Actress in 2009 from Houston Film Critics Society, Austin Film Critics Association and from the National Broad of Review. She is also the recipient of Rising Star Award from Palm Springs International Film Festival for the movie Up in the Air in 2010. In the same year, she won the Award from Toronto Film Critics Association for the category Best Supporting Actress and the MTV Movie Awards under the category Best…

Queens, New York on June 14, 1946. Raised in a family of five he was the fourth child to Frederick and Mary Trump. Not always being the money hungry business man we know him as today, Trump grew up in a somewhat blue collar family. If you could mentally create Donald Trump as a child the speculations you may imagine would more than likely be relatively correct. Throughout Trumps childhood he was always an energetic, assertive individual. At age thirteen his parents sent him to the New York…

technology, modern at the time, to paint a picture of the suffering caused by low wages and high prices, and nailed that metaphorical picture on the metaphorical door of every non metaphorical, wealthy, eccentric high class millionaire in all of New York City. His revolutionary work, and his book, How the Other Half Lives, displayed the widespread oppression of the lower class. Ideas and concepts from Jacob Riis’s “How the Other Half Lives: were not only relevant in 1890, but also have…

The National September 11 Memorial, or “Reflecting Absence," is a eulogy built in loving memory of the thousands of American lives that were lost on September 11th, 2001 due to a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The construction of the memorial began on March 2006, and the doors to the memorial opened on September 11th, 2011, in celebration of the 10th…

Just across the highway from Palo Alto, a quaint suburban hub of wealth and academia, lies East Palo Alto, a gritty little town where students face a 60 percent dropout rate, poor prospects of attending college, and run great risk of remaining in low-paying jobs. My high school is in the process of building a $29 million theater, part of a $130 million series of improvement projects, while teachers in East Palo Alto need donations just to cover basics like textbooks, school supplies, and PE…

Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel published in 1992 contain a collection of the best of his writings for The New Yorker dating back to the 1940s. The four books include McSorely’s Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould’s Secret. The books are still renowned to this day for their precise and respectful observations and portraits of eccentrics on the outskirt of New York’s social scene. One of these characters was Joe Gould, a penniless and unemployable man who came…

As a police reporter, Riis used his interest in tenement life and knowledge of photography to attempt to bring about social change for the impoverished of New York. His crusade against poverty culminated in the publication of his work How the Other Half Lives, in which Riis presents a thorough analysis of the problems faced by the poor of New York as a result of urban expansion, rapid industrialization and large-scale immigration. Despite his clear appointment of blame for the tenements to the…

The long awaited start of the NHL season is here, and what better matchup to start off with than New York Range vs. the Chicago Blackhawks. This is the 89th season in the National Hockey league for then Rangers, and a clash between another original 6 team in the Blackhawks. For the Rangers, this is the eighth straight season they have started on the road. This matchup is going to be a close battle, as both team won a game each last season by the score of 1-0. These two teams are meeting up for…

Delaware is a state located in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, to the northeast by New Jersey, and to the north by Pennsylvania. The word “Delaware” comes from the name given the river (Delaware River) in honor of Lord De La Warr, the first governor of colonial Virginia. Delaware is the second smallest and the sixth least populous, but the sixth most densely populated of the 50 United States. Delaware is referred to as the “First…