Results tagged “tickets”

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Antichrist, (Untitled), Astroboy, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant , Saw VI, Eulogy for a Vampire, Motherhood, Night and Day, Ong Bak 2: The Beginning, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, Wild River, The Lost Boys, and Life of Brian.

           

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Black Dynamite; Law Abiding Citizen; New York, I Love You; Food Beware; The Little Traitor; The Maid; Adela; Splendor in the Grass; Beetlejuice; and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Savvy subscribers to our indispensable free daily events newsletter, GothamList, have known about the Food Network New York Wine and Food Festival for quite some time now, and already secured tickets to sold-out events like the famous Burger Bash and the SWEET dessert extravaganza. But there are still tickets for sale for some of the celebrity chef cooking demos, wine tastings, and other consumption-related events during the festival, which kicks off tomorrow night and ends Sunday. Below, some of the highlights for which tickets are still on sale; be aware that though some of them are in the $100 range, proceeds benefit the Food Bank For New York City and Share Our Strength, which is dedicated to ending childhood hunger, and you don't want the little ones to go hungry, do you?

During his first day on the job, new MTA CEO Jay Walder announced a plan to install cameras on the front of city buses to take photos of any vehicles obstructing bus lanes. Like the city's red-light cameras, tickets will be issued automatically. Walder insists the innovation drastically improved the on-time performance of buses in London, where Walder worked before taking over the MTA. In February, the DOT began video surveillance of the "high-visibility" terra cotta-colored express-bus lanes on 34th Streets, but this would be the first time buses were used for enforcement.

Post-apocalyptic docu-drama The Age of Stupid stars Pete Postlethwaite as a global archivist living in 2055, flipping through the pivotal news stories from 2004 - 2008 on a Minority Report-type screen, wondering why we didn’t stop global warming when we had a chance. Well, maybe we would have had time if HBO didn't produce so much time-consuming must-see TV.

             

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Jennifer's Body, Bright Star, Harmony and Me, Disgrace, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, The Burning Plain, Love Happens, Paris, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Made in Jamaica, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Fat City.

This Friday Grizzly Bear fan Jay-Z is performing at the 9/11 charity concert at Madison Square Garden, but as expected, the scalpers are harshing the vibe. The Daily News reports that the rapper slammed the scalpers himself after the reasonably priced tickets (starting at $54.50) were being jacked up and sold online. He released a statement saying, "We are truly disheartened that certain individuals would choose to benefit from what is meant to be a 100% charitable event. We do not support any profits made from reselling any ticket that was meant to be purchased by honest fans." The proceeds go to widows and orphans of New York City cops and firefighters who died in the line of duty, which makes it's particularly disheartening to see tickets being sold for up to $45,000 (!) online. At this rate, scalpers will see more money than those who the event was meant to benefit. While not much can be done, Jay-Z has reportedly taken steps to "head off ticket brokers." Meanwhile, fans who missed out can watch the show broadcast live on Fuse... or as one fan suggested as an alternative form of entertainment, "go down there Friday and see who is getting these tickets."

The upcoming Yom Kippur sure has been a day of atonement for event planners. After an official protest from Congressman Anthony Weiner, Major League Baseball and ESPN have switched back the starting time of the final regular season Yankees-Red Sox matchup September 27th, that originally had been moved to after sundown on the high holy day so that it could reach a wider television audience. The brouhaha over the conflict comes on the heels of both the Jets and U2 having to scramble their schedules for the same reason.

Move over, Clementine Lee, the Parks Department has a new Public Enemy #1: The older Russian women enjoying a swim at Brighton Beach—and yesterday a few of them were handed $250 tickets for cooling off in the water. A tipster writes in: "I guess there's a sign somewhere on the boardwalk that says swimming is not allowed 6 p.m. to 10 a.m., but I never noticed it. It's hot, it's August, and some people have to work during official swim hours."

Round Two of the NYPD's smackdown on drivers using cell phones for phone calls, texting and emails fell short of the over 9,000 tickets that went out during March's one-day sting. But the city almost certainly cracked the seven-figure mark once again during Thursday's 24-hour ticket blitz, issuing 7,432 tickets at $130 a piece ($200 for cab drivers). Could a 15% drop mean that New Yorker drivers have begun to curb their cellphone usage? Or are they just paying closer attention when the NYPD publicly alerts them to the fact that thirteen times as many tickets will be given out that day? A Daily News writer gives a account of getting nailed for using her Blackberry while driving by Ground Zero on Thursday, taking us through the play-by-play of what getting a ticket is like: "I handed over my license and registration, sat patiently for a few minutes, then took my lumps without saying a word."

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Cloud Nine, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Bandslam, Ponyo, The Time Traveler's Wife, Grace, Earth Days, Spread, My Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler , Taxidermia, It Might Get Loud, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Jaws.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Cold Souls, A Perfect Getaway, Paper Heart, Beeswax, Canary, I Sell the Dead, Bliss, Rolling Thunder, The Talk of the Town, Red Dawn, Barton Fink, and The Third Man.

Some New Yorkers love the city's spike in parking summonses: the traffic enforcement agents who get paid to write the tickets. A New York Times review of city records found that more than 700 agents increased their wages by 20 percent with overtime in the 2008 fiscal year. Others raised their pay by over 50 percent, and one workaholic even doubled his income. In all, the city coughed up $13 million in overtime pay to traffic agents, on top off $68 million in regular pay. In return, traffic agents generated $578.6 million in revenues for the city in FY08, up from $366.6 million in 2002. One interesting fact in the article; according to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, construction sites that disrupt street traffic reimburse the city for the cost of traffic agent overtime. But some critics, like Carol Kellerman of the Citizens Budget Commission, think the city should limit overtime because it obscures "what work force is needed to do the job and what it is being paid." On the other hand, union president James Huntley explains that traffic agents have an insatiable hunger for OT, and "if you take it from them, they might cry."

              

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Adam, Fragments, Flame & Citron, You the Living, Lorna's Silence, Ghosted, Thirst, Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story Of OZploitation!, Gotta Dance, Raising Arizona, True Romance, and a retrospective of Ang Lee's films.

Because the cost of housing homeless families in shelters is so high, the Bloomberg administration has been quietly funding a $500,000-a-year program to buy one-way plane tickets for indigent individuals if they agree to stay away. Well, the program was quiet until it was featured in today's Times, so who knows how many New Yorkers will now start posing as transients for one-way tickets to Burning Man. So far the city has paid for more than 550 families to leave since 2007.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Shrink, The Answer Man, G-Force, Orphan, The Ugly Truth, California Company Town, The English Surgeon, Paraiso Travel, Loren Cass, Import/Export, Blood Simple, Deadgirl, and, starting Wednesday, Rediscovering John Cazale.

             

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include 500 Days of Summer, Homecoming, Death in Love, Off Jackson Avenue, Somers Town, A Woman in Berlin, The Way We Get By, Died Young, Stayed Pretty, In a Lonely Place, Flesh Gordon, The Blair Witch Project , and A Clockwork Orange.

            

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Humpday; Blood: The Last Vampire; I Love You, Beth Cooper; Soul Power; Lake Tahoe; Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg; Vanished Empire; Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Casablanca; Mississippi Mermaid; and Alien.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Year One, The Proposal, Under Our Skin, The End of the Line, $9.99, Dead Snow, The Windmill Movie, Top Gun, The New York Asian Film Festival, BAMcinemaFEST, DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation, Killer's Kiss, and Splash.

If you haven't yet seen Andrew Bird live, then you've got a pretty easy decision to make regarding your Thursday night plans: He'll be performing at Radio City Music Hall with his stellar three-piece band, and tickets are still on sale! Of course, if you've already had the Andrew Bird live experience, there's no deciding necessary: to see him once is to be blown away and left wanting more, so you've already got tickets burning a hole in your pocket. We've pretty much exhausted all our superlatives when it comes to Bird, whose voice, violin, guitar, glockenspiel, and virtuoso whistling combine—often simultaneously—to create a sublime, almost unclassifiable pop-Americana soundscape. His most recent album, Noble Beast, is just further proof that Bird's compositional gifts are an embarrassment of riches; but the only proof you'll need, should you remain unconvinced, will be presented in its entirety Thursday night at Radio City, Q.E.D.

In what could be the toughest reservation to book since Momofuku Ko opened, the Statue of Liberty crown, which will be reopened on July 4th for the first time since the 9/11 attacks, will begin accepting reservations starting this Saturday at 10 a.m. Tickets will cost an additional $3 and will be combined with reserved ferry tickets, which are currently $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for children. You can make reservations for up to a year in advance, but competition is going to be intense because the National Park Service is limiting the number of visitors to the crown to ten at a time, with about three groups ascending the crown per hour.

A minivan covered with parking tickets and debris had been sitting on 34th Avenue under the BQE overpass for long enough that a city marshal was finally dispatched to have the 2000 Chevrolet Ventura towed on Wednesday morning. But a grisly surprise was waiting inside: The badly decomposed corpse of a 59-year-old man, who apparently died from a heart attack, at least according to his daughter. Sources tell the Daily News that the deceased driver, a diabetic handyman named George Morales, was homeless, but his 29-year-old daughter Jennifer insists he lived with her and her two kids in Washington Heights. She says she called police after he went missing last month, but the NYPD claims they have no record of a missing person report. There's probably more to this story, but for now all we know are the disturbing details Morales shares with the News: "The window was cracked open. I don't understand how no one noticed him. They just gave him tickets. In the autopsy, they said they just found skeletal remains, no organs, only his heart." She believes he had a heart attack.

Outspoken Nigerian dissident and afrobeat trailblazer Fela Kuti was beaten and arrested hundreds of times during his turbulent life, which came to an end in 1997 due to AIDS-related complications. Several years after his death, Femi and Yeni Kuti, his eldest son and daughter, opened a performance venue and cultural center in Lagos called the New Afrika Shrine, a living tribute to their father and his famous commune-nightclub-recording studio, which was burned down by the Nigerian army. Femi, who has since taken up the afrobeat torch, performs with his band Positive Force often at the New Afrika Shrine, which has become a refuge for politically active youths and a source for information in defense against the AIDS.

The Critical Mass ride that wrapped up Bike Month last Friday night saw an increase in participants, as well as an increase in summonses for "failure to keep right" while cycling, which biking advocates maintain is not a valid ticket and is regularly dismissed in court. (The rule in question, RCNY 4-12(p)(3), states that "Bicyclists may ride on either side of one-way roadways that are at least 40 feet wide.") Over a dozen summonses were issued, some during a sting at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge, where police wrote tickets for cyclists without front and rear lights.

           

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Drag Me to Hell, Departures, What Goes Up, Munyurangabo, Pressure Cooker, Call Center, The Breakfast Club, The Lost Boys, L’Enfant, and Rashomon.

              

Click on the stills above for more on this weekend's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Burma VJ, The Girlfriend Experience, Dance Flick, O'Horten, Milton Glaser; To Inform and Delight, Kabei, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story, New World Order, Ghosts of the Heartland, Easy Virtue, Eyes Wide Shut, and Warriors.

             

Click on the stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Summer Hours, The Brothers Bloom, Revue, Big Man Japan, Alcatraz, The Big Shot-Caller, Anaglyph Tom (Tom With Puffy Cheeks), Jerichow, Management, Manhattan, Full Metal Jacket, and a benefit sneak preview of Sam Mendes's Away We Go, co-written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida.

             

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Adoration, Rudo y Cursi, Julia, Next Day Air, Little Ashes, Outrage, Objectified, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Garden , After the Rehearsal, Some Like It Hot, and The Big Lebowski.

The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff's estate filed a motion to sell the Ponzi schemer's Mets tickets on eBay. The filing states, "Because the New York Mets’ season has already started, the trustee must sell the tickets as quickly as possible to maximize the possible recovery." According to Bloomberg News, "The Madoff firm had two Delta Club Platinum season tickets for the Mets, for seats directly behind home plate" with a "face value was $80,190 for the season." But since the right to purchase playoff seats and tickets don't transfer if those seats' tickets are sold, "Picard reached an agreement with the Mets to swap them for Delta Club Gold tickets valued at $60,750" and the Mets refunded the difference. The filing thinks the Gold seats, which are behind the Platinum ones, are "more marketable, especially given the current economic environment." More details here. Also: Mets owner Fred Wilpon's firm had invested heavily with Madoff.

In one of his signature Sunday press conferences, Senator Chuck Schumer announced that he'll introduce a bill this week that would prohibit ticket brokers from buying up tickets during the first two days they're on sale to the public. The proposal is believed to be a reaction against February's Bruce Springsteen ticket debacle, in which Ticketmaster referred fans to its high-priced subsidiary TicketsNow almost immediately after tickets went on sale for two New Jersey concerts.