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New York City’s Tribeca Festival began in the aftermath of 9/11 as an effort to reinvigorate a traumatized city. Now for its 20th anniversary the festival again finds itself tasked with revitalizing the city following the extreme events of the pandemic.
Beginning Wednesday, the festival runs for 12 days with events in all five of New York City’s boroughs, showcasing around 70 features. (That’s down from more than 100 in pre-pandemic 2019.) Tribeca, which went virtual last year, is the first major film festival in North America to launch after widespread vaccinations and is placing a renewed emphasis on in-person events. Still maintaining a virtual presence, the festival’s online hub will feature premieres as well as encore presentations of films that first screened as in-person events.
It was probably somewhere on a two-lane highway in North Texas below the Red River. I was thirteen, scrunched in the back seat with my two brothers and sister on our way to visit family in Oklahoma for Christmas. I stared blankly outward at the world, my imagination in neutral. The winter scenery was not scenery. Fields. Flatness. Barbed wire fences, pale sky, birds whose names I didn’t know and didn’t at that time in my life care to know huddled together for warmth on telephone wires. Rusting cars, pump jacks, unpainted houses standing all alone in worked-over expanses of dirt where some crop that may have been vital to my existence but was numbing to my soul had long been harvested.
Are skinny jeans still in style?
In the past year, Rosana Vollmerhausen, founder and chief stylist of The Closet Collaborative, said that s the most common question among her clients.
The confusion comes after a push by Generation Z to get Millennials to ditch skinny jeans in favor of straight leg or baggy jeans. Gen Z TikTok users have posted videos denouncing skinny jeans and declaring they are out of style.
But Shannon Castle, a mom of three, said she’s not ready to pack up her skinny jeans just yet.
“TikTok wields so much power, every day I find something new I’m not supposed to wear or do anymore. But I draw the line with my skinny jeans, they make me feel less like a mom and more like a woman,” Castle said.
Tribeca Film Festival to celebrate Juneteenth with special programming Our programming is a powerful reflection of incredible storytellers that are deeply rooted in showcasing the rich legacy of the Black experience, all culminating on Juneteenth, said Tribeca CEO Jane Rosenthal
Stacey Abrams being honored.
th annual celebration of the landmark occasion with their annual festival which runs June 9-20.
Each day of the festival will have an emphasis on “the voices of the African Diaspora with an emphasis on African-American artists, performers, filmmakers, and interdisciplinary creators.” It will feature 66 films and 54 world premieres from Black talent.
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“The festival has always been a welcoming space for creators to share their stories and in support of artists through social activism,” said Tribeca Enterprises and Tribeca Festival co-founder and CEO
“Chanteuse” concert series will feature female vocalists at the Jazz and Heritage Center
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation will present “Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music.” This six-week concert series on Saturday nights will showcase local talents and concludes with a concert by NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater, a triple Grammy-winning and Tony award-winning vocalist who serves as UN ambassador. “Chanteuse” is part of an ongoing effort by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation to address inequities in the music industry.
The concerts will take place outdoors at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, located at 1225 N. Rampart Street. Doors will open at 6 p.m. prior to the start of the performance at 7 p.m. Admission is free to all six concerts, but attendees must RSVP at jazzandheritage.org to reserve tickets. Safety protocols, including face mask requirements, are also available at the website.