Last week I had the chance to attend an opening at Pomegranate Gallery in SoHo for the new show “Oil on Landscape: Art From Wartime Contemporaries of Baghdad,” curated by a former military officer who served in Iraq until 2007, Christopher J. Brownfield.
I reported on the story with my classmates from the CUNY J-School: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Who doesn’t start messing around with a new camera by shooting random things in their own home? Well, maybe not everyone, but I started by taking an upclose look at my microcosm.
Then I ventured outdoors and soon found myself on Broadway in upper Manhattan. On a nice weekend, the street becomes a bustling marketplace indoors [...]
Ok, I’m not completely behind, it seems, in sampling the blogging world.
After today’s first class discussion about this abstract place with its games, manners and aldermen, I felt as left out as if I’d just heard about a great party I missed the night before. Yet, after closer examination of my own activities, I [...]
