Set against the backdrop of a 1960s Bronx neighborhood, A Bronx Tale is a compelling coming-of-age drama. The narrative unfolds through Calogero (Lillo Brancato), a young Italian-American boy ensnared between two prevailing forces. His father, Lorenzo (Robert De Niro), is an hone...
Framed for a murder they didn’t commit, the Warriors, a Brooklyn street gang, must travel 30 miles from the north end of the Bronx to their home turf of Coney Island, fighting off different colorful gangs along the way. The battles are stylized enough to be balletic in their brutality;...
the bronx-born rapper always played fast and loose with rhythm. but he really began to embrace the weird and hilarious after going solo, adopting a series of alter egos, each one stranger than the last. on projects like 1996’
Ari Hest (born 16 June 1979) is an American singer-songwriter from the Bronx borough of New York. Albums: Come Home, The Fire Plays, Someone to Tell, Story After Story, The Break-In Arik Einstein Rock music Arieh Lieb "Arik" Einstein (Hebrew: אָרִיק אַיי...
The clip for newbie Bronx rapper Ice Spice’s “Munch (Feelin’ U),” directed by George Buford in the home borough of hip-hop, offers a perfect example of how to grab the brass ring of rap success in 2023. The song’s 1:44 length makes it perfect for repeat streaming. And Ice vi...
In the 50 years since a group of kids decided to throw a party in the Bronx, the genre has grown and blossomed in ways Kool Herc couldn’t have imagined. Hip-hop left New York and moved south to Atlanta, Miami, Memphis, and Houston, and west to Chicago and St. Louis. It took up...
Harris, who is the first Black and South Asian American woman to top a major party ticket, failed to animate Black voters at the same level as Barack Obama did in his first election. She also struggled to energize suburban, college-educated voters at ...
a Bronx native who appeared on the front page of theDaily Newson Easter Sunday 2019, after stopping an assailant who stabbed him multiple times while Jenkins was on the job. Ferretti points to greedy politicians and bankers, calling the subways a “dumping ground for all the problems they don...
An African-American girl group made up of high school students from the Bronx, The Chantels weren’t given many avenues to succeed in the late ’50s, but nevertheless scored a 1957 chart hit with “Maybe,” one of the girl group genre’s first classics. The backup vocals are doo-wop,...
She made her international debut at the 2013 American Cup and soon took home four first place titles at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Italy that same year. Soon after, Biles was named national all-around champion at the 2013 P&G Championships, with the world all-around title and pla...