Don’t Overlook the Millennials

A visit to the homepage for RocktheVote prominently displays news that young voters are”surging” at the polls. From there you can find a link to a November article in the Orange, the paper at Syracuse University, that presented the findings from a recent report saying today’s college students, or “millennials“, prefer community service over politics.
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Election coverage: take the good with the bad

I new if I read through enough comments on Adaora Udoji and John Hockenberry’s blog “Your Billion Dollar President,” I’d find the one I dreaded–that “what’s wrong” with the presidential election is the media’s fault. A recent comment by “James” didn’t pull punches:
I believe that we need to silence the infotainment community by dissallowing their [...]

Art for Godiva’s Sake?

[above: bombing with bucks, Madison Ave. style]
Reading Randy Kennedy’s article documenting the end of an era in the history of graffiti art as the Spring St. haven makes way for bajillion-dollar condos, struck me with great irony after my daily ride in the shuttle at Times Square. There, today, I was confronted with a new [...]