Westchester's Pop Culture
June 2012
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06/26/12Hold Up, Is Yonkers Getting an Alamo Drafthouse?!
Easy now, I thought when I found it. Don't get too excited. A job ad is just that. It doesn't mean that an Alamo Drafthouse is definitely coming to Yonkers. It's not signed-and-sealed paperwork or an opening-night announcement, and there's a million ways for this to not come to fruition. But that was shouted down by the bigger, louder,... Posted at 02:57 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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06/19/12Is Mad Men Backing Off the 'Burbs?Now that we've all had some time to digest the end of Mad Men's fifth season—and don't read on if you haven't finished it (this is your official spoiler warning)—it's time to get indignant about it. Specifically, indignant about the way the suburbs are treated in the show. Posted at 12:49 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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06/12/12A Good Year for Westchester at the Tony AwardsIt's natural that Westchester—with its proximity to the Great White Way—would be well represented at the Tony Awards. Still, this year felt especially good for our area. Posted at 11:27 AM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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06/05/12Fairy Tales are the New Comic Books
Snow White and the Huntsmen was the No. 1 movie at the box office this weekend, bringing in a little more than $56 million at the box office and Posted at 02:24 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
While I was wasting time on the internet the other day (as we all do), I came across 
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Marisa LaScala
Elmsford, NY
Articles Editor Marisa LaScala joined Westchester Magazine in 2003, and ever since she's blown every paycheck at the Greenburgh Multiplex. She also staunchly defends Richard Kelly, doesn't mind spoiling the endings of trashy movies you're curious about but don't want to pay to see, wishes the Hold Steady would come and rock out Westchester, misses Arrested Development more than anyone can imagine, and still watches cartoons and Saturday Night Live. You can find more of her cultural criticism at www.popmatters.com, where she is a staff writer.
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- Arrested Development: Trailer, Netflix, and the Culture of Binge-Watching
- The Great Gatsby: For Further Reading
- Why You Should Be Reading the Scouting NY Blog
- Theater Review: Guys and Dolls at the Westchester Broadway Theatre
- Theater Review: Matilda The Musical
- Stephen Apkon, Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, On His New Book
- Gimme the Loot Movie (and Its Ties to Westchester)
- Actress Vera Farmiga Plays the Mother You Always Dreaded in A&E's New Series "Bates Motel"
- The Power of Kickstarter: Veronica Mars Movie in the Works
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