Sentences with phrase «scrappy new»

Alas, they soon find that they have merely abandoned one war zone for another, as their scrappy new Maison Mumbai, with its open - air seating and free - wandering chickens, is soon locked in a fierce competition with the classy Michelin - starred establishment located just 100 feet across the road.

A major challenge facing NASA's scrappy new Messenger probe, scheduled for blastoff from Cape Canaveral next month, is to compensate for the sun's huge gravitational pull.

And, having played ultimate throughout summer camp as a kid (often with Marc), briefly in college, and for two seasons in a scrappy New York City league (yes, I realize I'm officially coming out of the nerd closet here), I was invited to play Thursday.

The anti-bourgeois us - against - them ethos of many of Kozloff's quotes gives way in the recent books to a nostalgia for the smaller, scrappier New York art world that de Kooning helped create.

Not exact matches

«We're totally different on Staten Island, we have a different walk, a different talk,» LaCola tells CNBC of the often forgotten New York City borough, whose residents have a sometimes rough but scrappy reputation.

It's like the sale of any startup to a major corporation: The new parent company offers valuable marketing and distribution muscle, but the scrappy upstart runs the risk of losing its soul.

Unlike the scrappy dropouts and malcontents of yore, however, these new entrepreneurs are unwilling to pursue business opportunities without raising big money first.

Astro Teller, the head of X, had this to say in a statement about the new hire: «Under Mike's scrappy, entrepreneurial leadership, Loon moved from science project to viable venture, and Tom's valuable industry experience will help launch us into the commercial stage of this moonshot.»

i get it that the new scrappy guy gets love but he's not a good defender.

In this scrappy city, in this contrary rivalry, the shift from green to blue can require more than a New York minute.

Everton kicked off their new season with a scrappy and unconvincing 1 - 0 win against MFK Ružomberok in the Europa League at Goodison Park.

The first half was a scrappy affair, as both sides, filled with new names struggled to get any kind of chemistry going.

New Yorkers once again prove they are a scrappy bunch.

At the second moment, when Maggie enters that customer's cabin, your initial guess is confirmed: she's a «healer» in 1885 New Mexico, scrappy and brave.

Seeing no end in sight to the never - ending Arab - Israeli conflict, Zohan fakes his own death and resurfaces in New York City as the flamboyant Scrappy Coco.

The second act feels like an entirely separate story from the first act, complete with a new map, a new villain, new allies, a new oppressive government, and a new scrappy rebellion.

In «The Dark Horse,» a New Zealand drama from writer - director James Napier Robertson about a real - life Maori chess coach with mental illness, star Cliff Curtis is so heartbreakingly convincing in the lead role that he routinely frees you of the feeling you're watching one more adversity saga with scrappy kids and a third - act tournament.

New Yorker Nora Lum, AKA Awkwafina, has been going places since My Vag went viral on YouTube — now she's playing a scrappy wingman in the movie Ocean's 8

With «Frances Ha,» Noah Baumbach's directing career entered a new stage emboldened by his work with co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceedings.

New Deal Used Cars, the scrappy underdog, is run by kindly but simple Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), whose small sales staff includes Russell as corrupt Rudy Russo, Gerrit Graham as superstitious sex addict Jeff, hyper intelligent dog Toby, and clueless mechanic Jim, last seen in Spielberg's 1941.

Taking four of her sharpest colleagues with her, she swiftly makes the scrappy outfit battle - ready, navigating the tricky personalities — and personal agendas — of her new team members, most notably a mixed - race survivor of a high - profile school shooting (Gugu Mbatha - Raw, the movie's conscience), whose scruples nicely offset her new boss's anything - goes attitude.

The «young, scrappy and hungry» Autobot gets a new robot mode in concept art for the upcoming Michael Bay sequel.

Known for collecting accolades and her scrappy protags portraits under the new wave of Kitchen Sink...

Shelton, who used to make scrappy, wholly improvised indie gabfests, continues to sand down the rough edges of her style, so that each new movie feels a little less distinct — and a lot less transgressive — than the one before it.

The new season finds the scrappy family struggling with change and the possibility of growing apart.

So later she decided she had to go back and write something about the world she knew... namely, the scrappy theater world of New York City.

American Rose chronicles their story, as well as the story of the four scrappy and savvy showbiz brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee's brand of burlesque.

I think kids are very open to new things, and there's something about being scrappy independents that appeals to kids, especially teens.

She and her husband and three rescue dogs (MoeMoe, Daphne, and Scrappy) moved back to New England recently to be closer to family.

This is Scrappy in his new home.

But after she adopted him, the scrappy little shelter mutt made a huge turnaround, becoming confident and charismatic, and a fixture in her New York neighborhood.

But after she adopted him, the scrappy little shelter mutt made a huge turnaround, becoming confident and charismatic, and a fixture in her New York neighborhood — the virtual «mayor of Soho,» Durning laughs.

During this year's Frieze London Week, the New York - based couple — who also help raise up younger artists through their Rema Hort Foundation, dedicated to the memory of their late daughter — toured through the main contemporary art event in Regent's Park as well as the scrappy Sunday art fair, which the two found particularly impressive this year.

Nonetheless, I was grateful for the scrappy outlier fairs, of which several popped up during Frieze week — and the more established New Art Dealers Alliance, where new art has a chanNew Art Dealers Alliance, where new art has a channew art has a chance.

From a scrappy and dispersed open studios festival, Brooklyn's — if not New York's — largest such event, Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), has grown to 161 locations, including 16 information hubs and hundreds of artists over a three - mile stretch of the nebulous neighborhood known as Bushwick.

Under the long, obnoxious shadow that 250 South Street — the new 5,000 million story condo going up next to the Manhattan Bridge — casts on Henry street, I stopped by Situations, the brilliantly scrappy storefront gallery for a look at the Scott Covert show.

I think many people have idealized the idea of the New Museum being scrappy.

While being represented by the scrappy Canada gallery in New York, Bradley first signed onto a joint partnership with the higher - profile Gavin Brown before decamping late last year to show with Canada and Gagosian.

«Under the BQE» arrived in September, a scrappy show organized by artists Marie Karlberg and Lena Henke for one evening under, yes, the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway, which had young guns like Sam Pulitzer, Nicolas Ceccaldi and the curators themselves offering up major new works.

Rowland's 2016 show at the comparatively scrappy nonprofit Artists Space, which pursued a related strategy of leveraging institutional resources to expose the mechanics of privatization, but on an expanded scale, was, in my opinion, the most important institutional show in New York by an emerging artist in years.

Opening: Nicholas Buffon at Callicoon Fine Arts Nicholas Buffon makes beautiful miniature models of New York buildings and storefronts out of paper, paint and glue (pictured is Brooklyn Townhouse, 2014), as well as intriguingly scrappy abstract paintings.

Rozalia Javanovic, Capital New York, «With Blue - Chip Gallery Luhring Augustine Coming Soon, the Scrappy Bushwick Art Scene Contemplates its Future,» January 24, 2012 http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/null/2012/01/5110700/blue-chip-gallery-luhring-augustine-coming-soon-scrappy-bushwick-art-sc

I'm new to the group, and in just the few months I've worked with 350 DC, I've seen our scrappy, volunteer - led organization accomplish crucial climate goals.

The staff's general situation will improve due to the benefits that come from working for a larger, stable company versus a scrappy start - up, and we will also continue to hire for new positions.

What happens when Facebook and Twitter wake up with night - sweats from the distant possibility that some scrappy young company could destroy their business model with a new and unpredictable technology?

Based out of Seattle, it's not quite connected to the Silicon Valley space, and still considers itself a small, scrappy startup with over «volunteers» working to bring the custom ROM to handsets new and old, many of which are no longer supported by their own manufacturers.