admin | March 24, 2022
Less than a month ago, my biggest concern was finding a dependable job in Brooklyn, where I live. Now Im spending every night listening to the news, hearing all about the ways Ukraine, the country in which the majority of my biological family was born and raised, is being bombed and invaded. During the first few days of Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine, when I and most Americans first started learning about what was going on, there was a mix of reactions: outright shock, horror, resignation, and even some disturbing humor, in tweets that were sexualizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he stood strong in command of his country in peril, or by those who compared what was going on to scenes in Marvel movies
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admin | March 24, 2022
I think I can state with some confidence, that in the more than 25 years that I have been writing this column centered upon the history of our fair town, a 38-year-old high-end contemporary off of Plantation Lane in Saunderstown is indeed the newest house that I have ever focused upon.
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admin | March 8, 2022
By SURA JESELSOHN When my substitute mailman could not differentiate between a slush pile in front of my door and the mail slot, I tried to contact my federal representative, Jamaal Bowman, by leaving a message per instruction at his Bronx office. I have not heard back
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admin | March 8, 2022
One Damn Thing After Another begins with a fond evocation of Barrs childhood in a conservative family nestled in the liberal enclave surrounding Columbia University in New York City. His mother was Catholic, and his father Jewish (though he later converted to Catholicism), and Barr gives a lovely description of his elementary school education at the local Corpus Christi Church. (George Carlin went there too.
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admin | March 2, 2022
Curtis Park often gets lost in the history of Denver, overshadowed by the legendary stories about Five Points the official designation for the area in which it falls and the commercial boom in today's rapidly developing RiNo, a commercial label slapped on over the past fifteen years.
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admin | February 28, 2022
When I told my family I met this wonderful woman at an improv class, they would say, Shes an actor? No, Id say, shes a doctor. And my family would laugh hysterically because in a Jewish family if you cant be a doctor, the next best thing is to marry one, he said
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admin | February 28, 2022
Our disability lineages can only be reclaimed through the stories we uncover. This means conceiving of disability as an identity like being queer, rather than reducing it to a medical condition. L.G.B.G.T.Q.+ people such as myself, who in the closeted past had no queer family members to look to as models, can now proudly find and claim their queer lineage, reclaiming and retelling family narratives to include their queer ancestors
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admin | February 28, 2022
Politics A woman holds a sign at a rally in Times Square to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022, in New York
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admin | February 28, 2022
A battle over a Congolese statue owned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has thrust the local museum into the international spotlight. The item in question is a wooden statue of Maximilien Balot that is currently on display in the African art galleries at the VMFA
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admin | February 28, 2022
click to enlarge Photo via Google Maps The site for the proposed "City Center at Hanna Ave" project at 2515 E Hanna Ave in Seminole Heights East. The center is currently being built on an 11-acre lot at 2515 E Hanna Ave.
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