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August 1, 2011
Battle For Brooklyn — Opens At Cable Car Saturday
Providence Daily Dose
Attention, all our Rhode Island readers!
Opening this Saturday at the Cable Car Cinema — the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, a film about overly ambitious developers, greedy politicians in search of a luxury box to call their own, and the perverting of eminent domain’s original intent.
...These sports arena projects are not turning into great revenue generators for their cities, in fact just the opposite is true in many cases. Just ask the taxpayers of Cincinnati about their swell new arena (WSJ 7.12.11). Happily, ideas for plopping the Patriots right down in the middle of Providence never got any real traction. Only two showings of this movie are scheduled so far — Saturday at noon, and Sunday at 4pm.
Posted by eric at August 1, 2011 1:44 PM