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Citing Concerns About Backpage.com, Film Forum Pulls Advertising from Village Voice

The independent Manhattan movie house Film Forum has decided to pull its advertising from the Village Voice, citing concerns about Backpage.com, the classifieds site owned by Voice parent company Village Voice Media.

Longtime Film Forum director Karen Cooper told Off the Record that Nicholas Kristof’s Friday op-ed in The New York Times prompted her decision. Read More

Different Strokes, Same Address

Ryan Gentles, the manager of the Strokes, has bought a penthouse at the American Felt building—which just happens to be where the East Village’s most successful retro-rock band’s drummer, Fabrizio Morretti, also lives.

Mr. Morretti and his manager are used to being neighbors, though: Mr. Gentles bought a little three-room apartment in the East 13th Read More