Kartemquin is proud to announce a collaboration with Al Jazeera America on Hard Earned, a six-part documentary series scheduled to air in early 2015. Production has already begun on the series, which will explore the lives of five American families striving to keep food on the table and their dignity intact despite the reality of high living expenses and low wages.
Five stories, located in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, and two in the Chicago area, will be intertwined into six one-hour episodes. The series will shed more light on an ever-growing sector of the American workforce. Directing the individual strands are Katy Chevigny (E-Team, Election Day), Maria Finitzo (Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita), Ruth Leitman (Tony and Janina
Five stories, located in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, and two in the Chicago area, will be intertwined into six one-hour episodes. The series will shed more light on an ever-growing sector of the American workforce. Directing the individual strands are Katy Chevigny (E-Team, Election Day), Maria Finitzo (Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita), Ruth Leitman (Tony and Janina
Artist Rights Alliance Names New Executive Director
by Stephi Wild - February 03, 2022
The Artist Rights Alliance (ARA), an artist-run, non-profit organization fighting for songwriters and musicians in the modern music economy, announced that former longtime Viacom vice president Stacey Dansky has been named Executive Director....
VIDEO: Josiah Johnson Shares Video For New Track 'Hello, Hello On Fire!'
by Michael Major - January 26, 2022
Singer and songwriter Josiah Johnson has released a video for his track “Hello, Hello On Fire!” today, the first new music he has shared since the release of his debut solo album Every Feeling On A Loop. Directed by Pete Lee, the video explores the tension between the fact that everyone is worth...
Official YELLOWSTONE Podcast to Be Hosted By Jefferson White
by Michael Major - December 09, 2021
Guests for the podcast’s season one will include co-creator and Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, Luke Grimes, Gil Birmingham, Wes Bentley, Kelsey Asbille, Ryan Bingham, Jen Landon, Mo’ Brings Plenty, Forrie Smith, Ian Bohen, and more. Listen to the first episode ...
VIDEO: LonelyTwin Shares 'Pretty' Single
by Michael Major - November 04, 2021
Stockholm-based singer, songwriter and producer LonelyTwin (Madelene Eliasson) is back with her newest sanguine single. “Pretty” highlights LonelyTwin’s signature sound; soft guitar strums and a mellow, synthetic beat carry soulful harmonies as she soothingly breathes hope into a strained rela...
MUNYA Shares New Single Before Debut Album Release on Friday
by Michael Major - November 02, 2021
Québécois artist MUNYA - a.k.a producer, singer, songwriter and performer Josie Boivin - will release her long-awaited self-written, self-produced and self-recorded debut album this week, and today she shares one last single before the record’s out. Watch the music video for 'Voyage' now!...
Blanca De La Rosa Releases New Professional Development Book - A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO YOUR CAREER
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 06, 2021
In 'A Holistic Approach to Your Career', the author shares the hard-earned wisdom and experience of a forty-one-year professional career-detailing attributes, skills, and action steps which she considers essential to career success and better positioning yourself for that next career move....
U.S. to Lift Covid Travel Ban for U.K. and European Union
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 20, 2021
It has been reported that the U.S. will reopen its borders, allowing vaccinated passengers to travel the U.S. from the EU and UK beginning in November. ...
MUNYA Announces Debut Album, Shares New Single & Video
by TV News Desk - August 24, 2021
Following her masterful EP trilogy that was released in its entirety in 2019, MUNYA started work on her debut album....
LonelyTwin Dodges A Bullet On 'Hurts Like It Hit Me'
by TV News Desk - August 05, 2021
Eliasson's songs are spectral yet heavy with emotion, and her lyrics aim for an honesty that's elusive in real life — like confessions whispered in the dark to the twin sister you never had. ...
Four Seabright Productions Filmed at Wilton's Music Hall Will Receive Streaming Premiere in July
by Stephi Wild - June 18, 2021
The four critically acclaimed productions were curated by Olivier Award-winning producer, James Seabright, and filmed last month before socially distanced audiences at Wilton's Music Hall, the oldest surviving Grand Music Hall in the world....
Ken Cerniglia to be Featured On THEATER: ALL THE MOVING PARTS This Friday
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 16, 2021
Host Patrick Pacheco talks with Ken Cerniglia, one of theater's top dramaturgs, about the art and craft of dramaturgy on this episode of “THEATER: All the Moving Parts”, premiering June 18 at 9:30PM on CUNY TV and streaming starting June 21. ...
Student Blog: Productivity and Downtime
by Student Blogger: Michael Scuotto - May 25, 2021
Summer is almost upon us! That means it's time to kick back and unwind. Or at least, that's what I try to tell myself. See, I have a really hard time with 'downtime'. There's always a voice in the back of my head telling me that I should be doing something more productive, or that I'm 'wasting time'...
QUENTIN CRISP: NAKED HOPE and More to be Featured in Wilton's Music Hall Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 22, 2021
‘Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope’, a glorious, truthful and uplifting celebration of a genuinely unique human being, multi award-winning cabaret-musical ‘A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)’ and acclaimed play ‘Black Is The Color of My Voice’ will be presented....
Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman's Hit Horror GHOST STORIES Lands In Melbourne
by A.A. Cristi - March 29, 2021
This October, horror hit and global phenomenon Ghost Stories will play at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre for a strictly limited 8 week season. ...
BWW Review: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Streaming from the Ooley Theatre
by Courtney Symes - March 27, 2021
When I started writing for BroadwayWorld, never did I think that I would be an audience of one. Then 2020 happened and here I am, the lone spectator, reviewing a one-act play-the first live performance I've seen in over a year. Maybe fittingly, it is a play about death. More specifically, it's...
Congress Passes the American Rescue Plan Act
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 10, 2021
Today, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act which provides critical relief to union professionals and all Americans impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. For professionals impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic support continues to be an essential lifeline....
Pony Bradshaw Adds To The Southern Storybook On His New Album CALICO JIM
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 29, 2021
“It was paramount that we practiced restraint, to not abandon tradition in the name of originality,” says singer and songwriter Pony Bradshaw of the recording process on his new album, Calico Jim. “‘Less glamour, more nutrients’ was something I reminded myself of every morning over ...
NYCL Kai Closes Out The Year With Newest Track '2020'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 18, 2020
Over gritty guitars and ruddy lo-fi beats, rapper, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and skater NYCL Kai spits with punk recklessness and delivers an atomic genre-bending hybrid informed by hard-earned street lessons. ...
BAM Announces PJ Morton, Tarriona 'Tank' Ball, and More for 35th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 17, 2020
Brooklyn Academy of Music today announced details of its 35th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which brings together artists, activists, civic leaders, and the public for a communal commemoration and reflection on the life and legacy of Dr. King, on Monday, January 18, 2021...
Discovery Plus Announces New GOLD RUSH Spin-Off Series- FREDDY DODGE'S MINE RESCUE
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 08, 2020
Freddy Dodge is no stranger when it comes to gold mining....
Foogiano Celebrates Thanksgiving With 'Gutta Baby'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 27, 2020
Greensboro, GA-based rapper Foogiano – a.k.a. “Da Mayor” of the streets – is celebrating Thanksgiving with today’s release of a brand new mixtape. GUTTA BABY is available now via Gucci Mane’s The New 1017 and Atlantic Records below. ...
I Am The Avalanche Unleashes New Album 'DIVE'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 20, 2020
The wait is over for DIVE, the highly anticipated new album from revered New York Punk act I Am The Avalanche. ...
Pony Bradshaw Practices 'Less Glamour, More Nutrients' On His New Album Calico Jim
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 13, 2020
“It was paramount that we practiced restraint, to not abandon tradition in the name of originality,” says singer and songwriter Pony Bradshaw of the recording process on his new album, Calico Jim. ...
I Am The Avalanche Shares Title Track from New Album
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 29, 2020
Revered New York Punk act I Am The Avalanche has shared another single in anticipation of their forthcoming album DIVE....
I Am The Avalanche Announces New Album 'DIVE'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 01, 2020
Six years after the release of Wolverines (#108 on the Billboard 200), New York punk act I Am The Avalanche is back....
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