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Unsettled
With these sharply observed character-driven stories that touch on hot-button political issues, Mahdi Fleifel and Alexandra Simpson's debut narrative…
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My First Food Pop-Up is Next Week + Stuff I Did in June
Seasonal Asian veggies, missing the Song of the Summer, Ghost Quartet in Green-Wood Cemetery (Kernels, June 1 - 30, 2025)
Jul 7
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My First Food Pop-Up is Next Week + Stuff I Did in June
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Materialists Schemes and Phoenician Cuisines
Freeform thoughts on early summer movies, feat. Materialists, The Phoenician Scheme, Mission: Impossible, Elio, and Sorry, Baby.
Jul 3
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Andrew Truong
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June 2025
Seven More Movies That I Watched at This Year’s Tribeca Festival
Notes on luxury sushi, KBBQ dine and dashers, class stratification in Egypt, undercover improv, two New Yorkers on the verge of nervous breakdowns, and…
Jun 19
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Andrew Truong
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Seven More Movies That I Watched at This Year’s Tribeca Festival
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The Rose and The Thorn
From dropping out of the K-pop system to selling out arenas, Tribeca Festival selection The Rose: Come Back to Me traces the unlikely rise of a Korean…
Jun 17
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A More Pitch Perfect Union
This documentary about an elite collegiate a cappella team at USC hits the right notes—even for this Pitch Perfect hater.
Jun 6
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Andrew Truong
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The False Mythology & True Misogyny of Morgan Wallen (and other life updates)
A belated take on Morgan Wallen's SNL performance. Plus: spring’s new music playlist, baking the Tom Cruise cake, and other things I did in May 2025.
Jun 2
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Andrew Truong
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May 2025
Stage to Screen & Screen to Stage: Movie Pairings for This Year's Tony Nominees
Films to watch alongside this season’s Broadway plays and musicals.
May 25
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Andrew Truong
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Stage to Screen & Screen to Stage: Movie Pairings for This Year's Tony Nominees
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The Stories You Hear, They Never Add Up
Two unorthodox music-centered movies from Alex Ross Perry and Alexis Langlois, lovingly satirical tributes to indie rock band Pavement and Y2K electro…
May 20
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Some Copenhagen Recommendations
Eating, drinking, walking, and copin'hagening.
May 20
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Some Copenhagen Recommendations
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The Presence of the Past
Reviews of Jia Zhangke's “Caught By the Tides” and “Bonjour Tristesse,” directed by Durga Chew-Bose. Plus recommendations for where to drink baijiu…
May 9
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Family Dinner, Corn Ice Cream, Five Pounds of Ramp Butter
Eating in and dining out in April. Featuring: Konban, Rosella 3x, Eyval, and Latin-Vietnamese-American fusion.
May 7
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Andrew Truong
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