Sentences with phrase «like chinatown»

As an artist that's being represented by James Cohan Gallery, demand that James Cohan Gallery and other galleries actually do the right thing and try to support policies that would protect Chinatown, policies like the Chinatown Working Group plan.

Over the weekend, a slew of more than 40 local and visiting artists, as well as organizations like the Chinatown Art Brigade (a grassroots effort tackling the divisive issue of gallery - led gentrification in their neighborhood) demonstrated that preservation doesn't have to be backward - looking.

Just like Chinatown itself, these hotels are great places to be at night!

Since opening in 2011 they've expanded to four locations in traveller hotspots like Chinatown and Boat Quay.

The music app (a huge improvement over the standard Android player) bears an uncanny resemblance to the iPad's iPod app, while the faux - realness of the Calendar, Contacts and Memo apps feel like Chinatown knockoffs of Cupertino software.

Like Chinatown before it, this twisted and twisting tale of cops, crime, corruption and hangers - on in 1950s Los Angeles artfully evokes the flip side of the City of Dreams.

Either way, it's going down like Chinatown

Although Tom Sizemore makes a good heavy, I felt we didn't see nearly enough of the corrupt politician who was behind all of these events but if you liked Chinatown or L.A. Confidential, this is well worth a look.

Not exact matches

I send me, my son, me, my son, me, my son (sounds like Faye Dunaway in «Chinatown», doesn't it?)

«We're bringing world - class flavors and cuisine to our property for guests to enjoy, so when they get a bowl of dim sum from Good Friends Market, they'll feel like they're getting something from a secret place in Chinatown,» Beford notes.

You know, like when I sat down at the small but famous H K Wonton Garden in New York's Chinatown, and devoured an entire bowl of Chinese dumpling soup.

i live upstate NY, 2 hours from chinatown... my home smelled like a chinese bakery!

This is Chinese food in Chinatown, that is more like the upscale stuff you find in our better hotels» He goes on to say «Jimmy Li is a serious Chef» «This is serious Chinese food, for serious people who want to taste upscale stuff» They are the best new Chinese restaurant and I am very excited about it.

The plan: First, we'd hit Chinatown for dim sum (we like MingHin) and check out tchotchkes in the gift emporiums.

With the N.Y.C. Council soon to vote on whether or not to approve the formation of the Chinatown Business Improvement District, we would like to register our strong support for a «yes» vote on the B.I.D..

It is sad the very communities that need to be represented the most are used as pawns by the likes of political clubs like the Lower East Dems (John Quinn, Alice's husband), the Truman Club (Shelly still at the wheel), and UDO (insider Chinatown club not representative of the population).

I would like to thank my supporters from the Lower East Side, to Battery Park City, to SoHo, to Chinatown for the movement we built together.

As a result, it uncovers true moments of genius, like this one today about State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose Lower East Side district includes Chinatown:

For many of us, the job's biggest impact is in the district, helping the constituents who hire us.I have been proud to work with colleagues and community leaders to secure millions for public housing, new waterfront parks and flood resiliency after Hurricane Sandy; make local improvements, like bringing a pool to enliven Brooklyn Bridge Park and cherry trees to beautify Chinatown; and advocate for constituents in need — to save a home, pay for life - changing surgery or cut through bureaucratic red tape.

Georges St - Pierre strides into a Thai - boxing gym in Chinatown sounding like he's just defied death.

Now it does not look like that at all and in the interim Chinatown came to look vitriolic.

«With no rules to regulate buses, the streets of Chinatown are like the Wild West, and that doesn't work for bus companies or the community,» said Squadron.

(Again, if you're in New York, at a store like my beloved oo35mm in Chinatown.)

Today I got totally surprised by heavy rainfall and like most people around I hadn't thought of bringing an umbrella along, luckily I was in Chinatown so I found shelter in one of the many restaurant and enjoyed a dim sum lunch and green tea while I waited for the waterfall to stop, quite cozy actually, despite I was on my own.

We did get authentic Thai massages in Chinatown, and it was nothing like I've experienced.

You can cross a street and feel like you are in a different city or even a different country - this is especially true of Chinatown.

We've picked a great date idea with walking distance of every SkyTrain stop: stay in Burnaby and head to Royal Oak for tea at Camellia, go south to Scott Road and try Surrey dating ideas (like a beer at Central City Brewers), or ride into Vancouver, to Stadium - Chinatown for Revel Room cocktails and great live music.

From the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz to the fabulous Chinatown and the renowned cable cars, you can be sure you'll find something you'd like to do.

Some DOs and DO N'Ts for Travel in Russia - By Susan Dunn, MA, Clinical Psychology, The EQ Coach — When travelling, avoid feeling like a lost puppy in Chinatown... or in Russia.

Bar 35 calls itself «Downtown Chinatown's Home Bar» and the «Home of Honolulu's Happiest Happy Hour,» and it looks like patrons would agree.

Sweeping cinematography of California's harsh, dry landscape asks us to visualize a fight for water in what feels like a modern day Chinatown.

In these early moments, like a half - hearted action scene set in a Chinatown restaurant secretly run and frequented by extraterrestrials, MIB3 smacks of desperation as it sadly goes through the motions it so cleverly unveiled fifteen years ago.

Days of Heaven is, of course, exactly that, and Malick's film now seems like a peak moment in a tendency that began with Coppola's Godfather films and Chinatown and saw its final flowering with Ragtime, True Confessions, and Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, where nostalgia reaches a frozen end point.

Though it's hard to choose just one, the retrospective featurette «Chinatown: An Appreciation» is an engrossing discussion about the movie by industry vets like Steven Soderbergh, Kimberly Pierce, Roger Deakins and James Newton Howard on everything from the script, to Polanski's shooting method, to its memorable score and much more.

It sounds like an L.A. mood piece with slanted comedy thrown in, so look for a stylish Chinatown - junior vibe going on.

But rather than scale the obstacles in its path, Ghostbusters dispenses a powerful proton pack of carefully constructed charisma, nostalgia - fueled callbacks and no - holds - barred performances, blasting the besmirching naysayers to smithereens like cardboard cutouts of Slimer in a Chinatown back alley.

as well as film noir classics like The Big Sleep or Chinatown.

The movie costars Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley and Stephen Lang, and looks kind of like «Chinatown» but underwater.

Set in L.A., 1970, Inherent Vice is a little like a countercultural shaggy - dog version of Chinatown, with its labyrinth of conspiracy opened by a shady real estate transaction.

As a detective picture about a private eye with flawed vision — in this case, a small - time independent dick and former football player named Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), who'd like to think he's Sam Spade — it would make a great double bill with «Chinatown,» released the previous year.

Their «Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown» would go something like: «Forget it Doc [or Oedipa Mass or Maxine Turnow or Jeremiah Dixon], it's History.»

In the vein of crime classics like Mean Streets and Infernal Affairs, this film follows two immigrant friends, Sonny and Steven, who survive the hard streets of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang The Green Dragons.

That film is a Los Angeles - based, neo-noir homage to pulp - y detective mystery - thrillers, while The Nice Guys feels more like an L.A. - based homage to other acclaimed neo-noir detective films that have come out since the heyday of the film noir era, 1974's Chinatown and 1997's L.A. Confidential (it's surely not a coincidence to see Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger (Grudge Match) reunite here).

The 1970's were the era for extraordinary conspiracy movies, and this one is less Network or Chinatown, and more like Phone Booth or John Q. «Forget it Kyle.

The Black Dahlia is a lot more like his The Untouchables than the Chinatown to which it aspires — a technically - marvellous picture (its use of sound is astonishing) overburdened by a couple of actors simply incapable of saying the words.

Naively, Doc follows the lead of troubled ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston), nosing his way into a conspiracy involving «Chinatown» - like land grabs, a coke - addled dentist (Martin Short, dazzling) and a shadowy consortium called the Golden Fang.

Johnson was lucky to land Gordon - Levitt for the role; a veteran of the sitcom 3rd Rock From the Sun, he's proved a formidable dramatic actor in indies like Manic (2001) and Mysterious Skin (2004), and in Brick he holds the screen as powerfully as Jack Nicholson in Chinatown.

maybe more like East Chinatown).

This time Ken took to the streets of Los Angeles for his shenanigans, hitting spots like Randy's Donuts, Chinatown and the LA River.

And you'll learn more about Chinatown in 1906 and what it was like to live up on Nob Hill.