'Weird Alex' Pareene
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The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter Contributing editor, The New Republic
Brooklyn
Joined June 2009
Last month, Mayor Adams said the 14-year-old scaffolding outside of Queens Supreme Court would be coming down. It did...but was replaced by scaffolding twice as large a day later. https://t.co/x55TeJhrp1
queenseagle.com
Last month, Mayor Eric Adams said the scaffolding outside of Queens Supreme Court would be coming down. It did – only to be replaced a day later by a much larger shedding structure.
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So what the studios are saying is that actors and writers bring a value of up to 15% to a movie's gross? That that is a percentage of a movie's final gross they are responsible for and are essential to? Interesting.
Several studio sources tell THR the new #TMNT film's earnings at the box office could be hurt by as much as 15 percent due to lack of promotion from the stars amid the #ActorsStrike
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BREAKING: Visual Effects (VFX) workers at Marvel have filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. If they’re successful @vfxunion will be the first visual effects professionals to unionize. https://t.co/apd7ZzjkZE
vulture.com
On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE.
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Cyndi Lauper sang the Pee-Wee's Playhouse theme (by Paul Reubens, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh & Groundling/Pee-Wee writer/actor George McGrath) but she made 'em keep it secret. Completely unhinged performance, just beautiful.
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EXCLU: The MTA shelved a through-running/signals program that could have boosted Penn Station’s capacity by 20-45%. Officials say they shelved it because it missed capacity targets. The $13B terminal they’ve proposed instead misses those targets, too.
nypost.com
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority quietly developed a plan to dramatically boost capacity at the notoriously clogged Penn Station for $10 billion less than its current proposal to add a new...
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literally never good news when my mentions are people saying I was right about anything
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Queens City Council Member Vickie Paladino has decried unregistered vehicles, called for mandatory bicycle license plates, and sponsored legislation to combat fake temporary tags on cars — last week we saw an illegal temp tag in her driveway. https://t.co/kTMLYg0hhj
nyc.streetsblog.org
The bogus temporary tag was on a luxury sports car outside the home of Queens lawmaker Vickie Paladino. The car belongs to her son and spokesman, Thomas Paladino Jr.
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The part where the other scientist says “what shall we call the bombs?” & Cillian Murphy doesn’t answer and then we see he’s staring at a fat man and a little boy, that was funny
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Apparently, "popularism" meant eugenicist billionaire hucksters trying to save their little cult of weirdos from end times in a remote island bunker.
Sam Bankman-Fried wanted to buy the nation of Nauru to wait out the world's end
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So… the speed bumps do nothing to slow traffic… but they meet the department of transportation’s standards… Unfortunately, that checks out.
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Mosseri saying Threads isn't for news reads as dismissing the political obsessives here, but what it really means is that if anyone tries to, say, livethread a basketball game, the updates will arrive algorithmically, hours or days out of sync, as atemporal as the news feed
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A former NYPD commander who Eric Adams "knew socially" just got indicted for a campaign finance fraud scheme to help Adams get elected, and is quoted in the indictment telling someone Adams "doesn't want to do anything if he doesn't get 25 Gs."
hellgatenyc.com
A group of Adams supporters, including a former NYPD inspector, allegedly conspired to use the system of public matching funds to funnel illegal cash to the candidate during his 2021 campaign. The...
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He was Marc Dornier, Sandor and Michel Krasna, Fritz Markassin, Hayao Yamaneko, and many others. During his long life, the filmmaker-essayist-critic-novelist-organizer Chris Marker wore as many hats as he had pseudonyms. https://t.co/rfnwPQEBoP
thebaffler.com
In the early writings of Chris Marker, one finds a preamble to his celebrated body of work as a filmmaker.
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"But the weathered photo of Officer Venable had not actually spent decades in the mayor’s wallet. It had been created by employees in the mayor’s office in the days after Mr. Adams claimed to have been carrying it in his wallet." Amazing story by @emmagf
nytimes.com
Mayor Eric Adams has often talked about a wrinkled photo of a fallen police officer that he kept in his wallet. Now that photo and the story have been called into question.
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Found the private NYPD fireworks viewing area
On either side of the East River on Monday night, the NYPD held private fireworks viewing parties for friends and family — even as members of the public were turned away from the same parks for a lack of space.
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