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THE NEW 101.9 The Keg “That’s who we are”: Robert De Niro on today’s launch of his Tribeca Film Festival By Stephen Iervolino Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in New York City today, live and in person after last year’s event went virtual because of the pandemic. The annual event, created in 2001 to revitalize lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks, has a new mission this year: helping get New York City’s economy back on its feet after COVID-19.   “I mean, it seems apropos, if you will, to follow this and to carry on that tradition,” festival...

An explosion of dance and song in this vibrant stage-to-screen adaptation

John M. Chu’s adaptation of Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical opens wide this week

Austin 360 When I saw the trailer for “In the Heights”? Wet lil’ tear ducts. “We we have got to see that,” I whispered to whoever was sitting next to me. (This was pre-pandemic; would you remember?) What was the movie about? Who were the characters singing from their chests in lavish, swirling production numbers that screamed “New York” louder than Rosie Perez reading off subway stops?  Could not tell you. Such is the power of the movie musical.   Now, isolation is becoming a memory, and “In the Heights” is finally in theaters and streaming on HBO Max on Ju...

Washington Heights is that multicultural neighborhood just north of Harlem in New York City. I’ve been there many times and noticed its slow gentrification. I went there again this week