Opponents of the bill vetoed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had said would force school districts to pay for far more students to attend religious schools.

A caseworker at the New York City’s Human Resources Administration was fired after asking a welfare recipient whose benefits he was seeing to take care of his ferret.

Rockaway Beach in Queens seems to catch its breath after the lifeguards leave, and a new shift arrives to savor the stars, sounds and space.

Amid Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s attacks on the gun industry, New York City sold more than 28,000 pounds of the Police Department’s spent shell casings to a Georgia store in June.

You’ve Been Trumped, directed by Anthony Baxter, is a document of a humble American businessman who, through some perspicacity and Abe Lincoln–style bootstraps-hoisting, wins the land and homes of a bunch of primitive, chattering Scottish natives who obviously don’t use them to God’s…

“Reggae is only what you hear and think is reggae,” Peter Tosh pronounces at the beginning of Heartland Reggae (1980)—and a lot of what sounds like just that is playing at BAMcinématek during the long-weekend program “Do the Reggae,” which ends on the 50th anniversary of Jamai…

In terms of looks, charisma, and talent, Rashida Jones should have been a star a long time ago. But in terms of what she’s ready to offer Hollywood (and what Hollywood finally might be ready to let her accomplish), her belated ascent seems well-timed. Bittersweet breakup comedy Celeste and Jes…

In Celeste and Jesse Forever, the titular, newly separated female protagonist’s un-flamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood) tells her “it’s time get your fuck on,” and then immediately apologizes: “Sorry, I was trying to be your saucy gay friend.” Co-written by and starring Parks and Re…

Most film festivals share a fairly generic, if admirable, goal: to showcase the best fare that falls under their banner/mission statement—be that indie, queer, experimental, diasporic African, and so on. DocuWeeks’ mission is simply to bring American audiences the best international documen…

Not pulling out soon enough—its 95 minutes feel like a trimester—the wheel-spinning comedy The Babymakers follows a quartet of doofuses trying to rob a sperm bank. The plan is hatched by Tommy (Paul Schneider), who, after learning that his low seed count can’t get his missus, A…