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Long Beach Pretzel Shop Opens As COVID-19 Restrictions Ease - Long Beach, NY - Store owner Craig Kute told Patch that he did "take a gamble" signing the lease in November.
‘In the Heights’ Film Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Stage Hit Becomes a Screen Celebration The film’s mix of musical styles and Latino characters gives voice (and dance) to a community too rarely celebrated in major-studio movies Monica Castillo | May 21, 2021 @ 8:00 AM Warner Bros. In Broadway history, there have been only a handful of musicals that center on U.S. Latinos, and only a fraction of those shows were written by people from the communities they were portraying on stage. That’s part of the reason why Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” made waves when it opened on ...
Directed by Jon M. Chu, the director of Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights adapts the play by Quiara Alegria Hudes and Hamilton creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda depicting a long weekend in the NYC neighborhood of Washington Heights. The film is a joyous celebration of the Latin American experience and movie musicals.
Philadelphia's Progressive DA Faces a Primary Test Amid Crime Surge © Matt Rourke/Associated Press Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, one of the highest-profile progressive prosecutors in the U.S., faces a re-election challenge that will test support for his reformist policies at a time of soaring homicide and shooting levels in the nation’s sixth-largest city. Mr. Krasner squares off in Tuesday’s Democratic primary against Carlos Vega, a former prosecutor backed by the local police union whom Mr. Krasner fired shortly after his tenure began in 2018. The Democratic candidate ...
When Larry Krasner took over the Philadelphia District Attorneyâs Office in 2018 after decades as a civil rights and defense lawyer, he quickly overhauled staffing, set policy goals, and instituted a series of tone-setting mandates. For instance, when requesting a prison sentence, each prosecutor was told to state in court the estimated cost to taxpayers of the incarceration. But several busy defense lawyers said they never recalled seeing that happen. The times it did, it irked some judges â even drawing a threat to hold an assistant DA in contempt, according to one DAâs Offic...