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The Master of Arts in Journalism degree at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is an intensive, three-semester program designed to prepare gifted graduate students for a wide variety of careers in the field of journalism.Learn More →
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Shannon Firth
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When Samantha Vecchia was born she was very weak, she slept poorly, ate poorly and cried a lot. Her mother, Jessica, felt something was wrong, but each time she brought her duaghter to the doctor, they found nothing. Ultimately, Samantha’s pediatrician noticed a heart murumur. The heart murmur sent her to the cardiologist and then the [...] -
https://vimeo.com/63964197 Charmagne Aultra: The making of a drag queen by Shannon Firth When Kevin McIntyre, 34, an actor, told his boyfriend David Fisk that he wanted to perform in drag, David gave his blessing. He accompanied Kevin a.k.a. “Charmagne Aultra,” to clubs watching her compete on stage and sometimes flirt with other men all night. Then [...]
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Allison Maletz’ had her first solo art show at the Christopher on February 28. The gallery will be hosting her watercolors from now until March 24. One watercolor was featured on the cover of Third Ward magazine and her audio installations was presented at the “International Biennale for Young Art” at the Moscow Museum of [...]
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A Nice Place to Rest If you want to make someone immediately uncomfortable, ask what he plans to do with his body, when his heart has stopped beating and his flesh has gone cold. A few months ago, I received an envelope from the Pinelawn Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleum in Farmingdale, New York. Inside was [...] -
By Shannon Firth When Patricia Dyett’s unemployment benefits ended last year, she knew she needed to find work fast. Already behind on her rent, she registered with four different staffing agencies. She phoned, waited, and phoned some more. In December 2011, there were no assignments, but by January, Dyett was given a few short placements. [...]
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Bushwick, Brooklyn — Some New Yorkers, like Robert Camacho, never venture far from the neighborhoods they knew as a child. Camacho, 51, went to the same elementary school as his mother, P.S. 26, on Lafayette and Reid Street. He still lives on Stanhope Street, in the home of his father, who passed away in 2001. He [...] -
Upper East Side, New York — They call themselves permanents. Habiba Ali, 63, and Pamela Downing, 55, share a room at the end of a long, musty hallway in a boutique hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Excepting one other resident, they are the last of their kind.
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Initial jobless claims on the whole are declining, making a slight decrease in tomorrow’s report highly probable but also rather negligible. Based on the last few weeks’ reports, a drop of at least 5,000 additional jobless claims is more than likely. The claims report for the week ending March 24, showed 359,000 jobless claims, the [...]
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Here I Am: Bushwick in the 1980′s Soho Photo Gallery is currently hosting Meryl Meisler as its guest exhibitor this month for a project titled, “Here I am: Bushwick in the 1980s.” As an art instructor who taught in the neighborhood, following the historic fires and riots of the Seventies, Meisler captured the destruction she witnessed first-hand—derelict buildings, [...] -
Becoming Maurice Sendak: A Children’s Author Grows Up Maurice Sendak, whose book, “Where the Wild Things Are,” has just been adapted into a film, is considered a visionary and even an activist for children. Great Authors: William Faulkner William Faulkner, revered modernist writer, historian and sociologist, is known for capturing the raw beauty of the rural South [...] -
Local Night Out: Elizabeth Strout at BAM Beneath the hum of conversation and the scraping of knives and forks, Tanya Gabrielian, an award-winning pianist from Julliard, let her fingers drift to the lower register, every so often striking a stormy crescendo The Rumpus at the Greenlight Bookstore Each month the Greenlight Bookstore hosts a discussion between a [...]
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And The Next Stop Is…
Three-year-old Brooklynite Mikel Mongoven races into one of the subway cars housed in the lower level of the New York Transit Museum. He climbs onto a seat and busily adjusts a few important knobs as his mother, Kristen Mongoven, looks on. -
Before You Were Born: Pray For Us I remember hearing when I was younger that my mother, a nurse, met my father, a doctor, at a party in South Africa. They got engaged after dating for only six months, but there was a problem: my dad grew up Scots Presbyterian and my mother was Irish Catholic. [...]
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NEW YORK FAMILY And The Next Stop Is… NEW YORK TIMES: THE LOCAL Local Night Out: Elizabeth Strout at BAM The Rumpus at the Greenlight Bookstore Fort Greene by Foot NERVE Before You Were Born: Pray For Us BUSHWICK DAILY Here I Am: Bushwick in the 1980′s FINDING DULCINEA Music and Emotion Rihanna Case Spotlights Dating Violence Kidnapped Children Cloud International Adoption Becoming Maurice Sendak: A Children’s Author Grows Up [...]
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When Tina Skermo, was 15, her parents told her she was getting married. Frank, her prospective fiancé was an Albanian, 22 years her senior. Tina’s father, a construction worker, struggled to raise four children on his meager salary in Athens, Greece. Tina protested. But when Tina’ mother told her, “It’s better if you go,” Tina went. [...]
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Initial unemployment claims rose to 362,000 for the week ending March 3, an increase of 8,000 from the previous week’s claims, demonstrating that the unqualified optimism surrounding the labor market in recent weeks was premature. The 4-week moving average, generally considered more reliable than week-on-week figures, increased by 250 from the week prior to 355,000, [...]
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