Entries from February 2008

February 29, 2008

Bags (Still) For Sale

I joined my classmates Roisin O’Connor, Rosaleen Ortiz and Mathew Warren for a walk around the “counterfeit triangle,” as Mayor Bloomberg calls it, near Centre and Canal streets to see the effects of Tuesday’s police raid of the fake bag & watch vendors.

photo by Roisin O’Connor
Just a day after the shutdown, it was easy to [...]

February 15, 2008

Stepping it up for live blogging

I feel invigorated by the pace set for the live-blog event I did at Tuesday’s AUC/ICFJ film screening. It’s true that journalists get a bang out of their work just from the energy required to get the story. It took some time for me to find a stride between reading subtitles and responding to the [...]

February 12, 2008

February 12 ICFJ-AUC film screening

The following is a live-blog post of the documentary shorts screening, “First-Person Films: Student Documentaries from Egypt”, sponsored by The American University in Cairo and the International Center for Journalists, hosted in New York City’s Tribeca Grand Hotel.
Six films were shown: The Art of Mandur (Fan Mandur), Kasr El Masr: Palace of Critical Care, [...]

February 12, 2008

Tune in at 6 for ICFJ-AUC film screening

I have the awesome responsibility to bring you live-blog coverage from the Tribeca Grand Hotel of this evening’s screening, “First-Person Films: Student Documentaries from Egypt”, sponsored by the International Center for Journalists.  
The screening will show six short documentary films made by students from the American University in Cairo.  Their instructor, Emmy-award winning video [...]

February 9, 2008

Hillary Clinton’s New York Primary win

It surprised a lot of New Yorkers who had pounded the streets wearing Obama signs and stickers, but in the end, the New York primary was called for Hillary.
I headed for Queens on super Tuesday to see who might have skipped the NYGiants parade to cast their vote, while all of my classmates did [...]