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Chuck's Picks - "The Arthur Thompson Show"
"The Arthur Thompson Show" is an amusing assault of hokey legends and false folklore, delivered by none other than Arthur Thompson! This is a new kind of theater - a one-man show from one man's basement. Thompson is like the Mad Hatter, your only guide in this chaotic world, but completely...
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Watch Arlene on MNN 30 and find out how to tag your videos on youtube, vemeo, and blip tv.Remember that tagging your videos with mnnnyc or mnntv will link them directly to the MNN RSS feed.
MNN Firehouse Voted City's Top Project
Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s El Barrio-East Harlem Firehouse project has been honored as the City's top Community project.See http://www.gnycuc.org/pdf/GNYCUC_2011.pdf
Chuck's Picks - "Media Funhouse"
"Media Funhouse," airing on MNN for 20 or so years, is the brainchild of Ed Grant, who spends much of the half-hour screening and salivating over '60s art films and French New Wave cinema. Ed's enthusiasm is contagious (his delivery is funny and bombastic) and his knowledge is great (he has a...
Chuck's Picks - "Elsy Dance And..."
"Elsy Dance And..." is a weekly, hour-long instructional series on dance and dance techniques, featuring the spirited Elsy Contreras. The show captures her early work, highly unconventional, glacial choreography, often accompanied by dense 20th century electroacoustic music, as well as her current...
Chuck's Picks - "The Unreeeal Variety Show"
"The Unreeeal Variety Show" stars The Legend Rayford Faulkner, a mysterious nomad who wears a bag on his head and giggles maniacally into the camera. Faulkner takes the viewer along on his quests, under bridges and throughout bleak outposts in Schenectady, NY, sharing his gift of gab (trash-talking...
Chuck's Picks - "Paul Pierog (Not Your President)"
"Paul Pierog (Not Your President)" might actually be THE weirdest show on MNN. It is a semi-motivational experiment in wordplay and uncomfortable TV silence, a spoof of talking heads and having something to "say." In fact, nothing Paul Pierog "says" is purely said. It is stammered, brooded upon...
Congress Moves to Support PEG
In a showing of bi-partisan support for community media, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Congressman Steve LaTourette (R-OH) this week introduced the Community Access Preservation (CAP) Act of 2011 (H.R. 1746).