Tag: Brooklyn
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Tucson-based Jewelry Maker Reflects on Her Time at New Paltz During the Golden Age
Written by Matt Warshaw Packaged and Edited by The Little Rebellion Students in Professor Lindsay Lennon’s Feature Writing class were assigned interviews with New Paltz artists who were featured in Wired Gallery’s “Golden Age of New Paltz” exhibition. Here’s what they found: Rosalind “Roz” Zarr creates wearable art. Her jewelry is the only of its medium…
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Juvenile Detention: The Epidemic Among Black and Latino Youth
Young black and Latino children in impoverished communities are victims of what is called the school-to-prison pipeline, in which policies such as zero tolerance and the use of police in schools has turned from a desire to help into a punishment, one resulting in a student’s suspension or expulsion. The expelled student’s lack of education…
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At Work: Serina Bass Constructs Hairstyles with Panache
Students of Lisa Phillips’ fall 2015 Literature of Journalism class were asked to interview everyday working people about their jobs, and frame the first-person commentaries in the style of Studs Terkel’s book “Working, People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.” Subjects include an emergency medical technician,…
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At Work: Mahtik Calhoun, Emergency Medical Technician
Students of Lisa Phillips’ fall 2015 Literature of Journalism class were asked to interview everyday working people about their jobs, and frame the first-person commentaries in the style of Studs Terkel’s book “Working, People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.” Subjects include an emergency medical technician,…
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Recycled Fashion in New Paltz and Beyond
By Lisa Di Venuta Thrift shoppers are as one-of-a-kind as the items they buy. The New Paltz thrifting scene is certainly thriving, with a plethora of local shops and the fashion mecca that is New York City just two hours away. I decided to check out how and why local fashionistas are thrifting. SUNY New…
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Odd Race, Predictable Ending for District 52
Democrat Jo Anne Simon handily won her bid for Brooklyn’s State Assembly District 52 Tuesday with 17,293 votes, around 70 percent of the vote, according to The Associated Press. Liberal Pete Sikora, running on the Working Families Party line, received 5,582 votes, around 22 percent of the vote. The result is unsurprising, as Sikora essentially…
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Growing Opiate Addiction in NY Troubles Lawmakers
March 3, 2014 Brooklyn Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz says the state is “ill-equipped” to properly address the opiate addiction crisis in New York. This legislative session, Cymbrowitz, chair of the Assembly Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, is asking for increased funding to the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and is looking to pass…