new york

Cornet player Dixie Dwyer plays in Harlem's Cotton Club and has ambitions that are complicated by his connections with mobsters.

Follows eight young male and female dancers over the course of a year at New York's Ailey School, examining the nature of talent, the passion required to succeed in the dance world, and the ways the coming-of-age process experienced by teenagers whose lives revolve around a talent differs from that of "normal" teens.

New York police sergeant Kathleen Mallory sets off a chain reaction of violence when she returns to her small hometown in Louisiana in an attempt to solve the mystery of her mother's murder years earlier.

Tom Pak, hired as a clerk at a Korean grocery store, becomes caught up in the racial and class conflicts that threaten to destroy the neighborhood.

A multicultural collection of stories, poems, essays, drama, and photographs by past and current residents of Queens, New York.

A film adaptation of Esmeralda Santiago's memoir of her experiences as a Puerto Rican teenager trying to adjust to life in New York in the 1960s, after moving to the city with her mother and siblings in search of medical care.