Independent ‘King of New York’

During a screening of King of New York about a month ago in the Ludington Building’s third floor theater, someone shouted “the director’s in the house” just as the film’s main character and anti-hero Frank White shot and killed an old school mafioso without even blinking.
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‘Amandla!’ gives harmony, spirit

If the idea of watching a documentary gives you nightmares of history class, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony will change your mind. Jam-packed with spirited dances and energy-raising music, Amandla! (the Xhosa word for power), takes the documentary art form to a higher level.
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American films through foreign eyes

A black hand rises on a gray background. A black face peeks from the palm, looking toward the sky. Two simple elements that, together, send one strong message in Branislow Zelek’s poster for To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Patriotic Purge

MONTPELIER, Vt.—Peggy Bresee had picked out two books, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and she wasn’t eager to tell the government about it.
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Old School’ is all laughs

Old School claims it’s “all the fun of college, none of the education.” With a star-studded cast including Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn as the main frat boys, and several cameos from Craig Kilborn, Seann William Scott and former Columbia student Andy Dick, this frat-boy flick is indeed good for a few laughs.
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Celebrating Black History

Monday, Feb. 24
Soprano Jonita Lattimore will be performing at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Preston Bradley Hall at 12:15 p.m. The free event, sponsored by the Musicians Club of Women of Chicago, is part of the Lunch Break Classical Mondays. For more information, call the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. at (312) 744-6630.
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Neo-soul singer puts God first

(KRT Campus), ST. PAUL, Minn.—When listening to Cody Chesnutt speak, one might mistake the neo-soul’s newest phenom for just another Bible thumper from Atlanta.
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Blanchard branches out

(KRT) ST. LOUIS—Terence Blanchard was already a well-regarded jazz trumpeter when he embarked upon a second career as a film composer—to equal acclaim.
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Columbia hosts high tech performance

Bang! Smash! Boom! If life were like the old Batman and Robin television show, every time we swung a fist or did a roundhouse kick, cool sound effects would fill the air. Technology will take us a step closer to this fantasy when a performance of Bodysynth hits the Columbia campus for a performance at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash Ave.
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‘Get Rich’ resurrects gangsta life

At a glance, it would seem rapper 50 Cent and producer King Britt have little-to-nothing in common.

However, both began their careers in the early to mid-1990s and are now receiving their hip-hop payoffs after they paid their hip-hop dues.
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Interview: Abel Ferrera

Interview: Abel Ferrera, sitting in the middle of a round table, surrounded of both sides by young filmmaker types, one who is named Mark Finney. An artist named Walter A. Fydryck was sitting in a chair to my back right; next to him was David Leonardis (owner of the David Leonardis Gallery, 1346 N. Paulina St.) and next to him was another young guy. And over by the door was Paula Froehle and her assistant Christopher Mick The room is a darkened conference room on the sixth floor of Columbia College’s Ludington building, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. A screening of ‘King of New York’ is about half over downstairs. Ferrara is to do a Q-and-A session following this interview. He just woke up from a nap.]
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