June 2009
June 10th, 2009
Written by Steve Mirsky in Travels' Tapestry with 0 Comments
Travel deep into Brooklyn’s interior on the elevated M train and get off at the 50th Street station. At the bottom of the stairs, an open air market greets you with fresh fruits and vegetables anytime of the year. One block away on 13th Avenue is Borough Park, spelled by locals as Boro Park – the main thoroughfare of one of the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside of Israel. Here...
June 10th, 2009
Written by Shellie Warren in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
I have a girlfriend with whom I don’t always see eye to eye. Sometimes I wonder why we’re even friends, because we don’t agree on much. She’s conservative. I’m liberal. She’s super-religious. I’m … not. She hates the entertainment world and I write about it for a living. She’s “Anne Klein” and I’m bourgeoisie thrift. And yet, despite our cultural differences, something draws us toward one another...
June 10th, 2009
Written by Tom Leland in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Ten members of the local chapter of the Irish Heritage Club walk into a bar for a pint after their monthly meeting — no, this is not the beginning of an Irish joke. At some point, someone starts describing a barroom brawl they once witnessed, and tells how the police came and hauled a couple of guys off in the “paddy wagon.” While this may seem like typical talk over a few beers, some of the...
June 8th, 2009
Written by Jessica Rodriguez in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
How exactly does a boy from a provincial, seafaring town become a world-renowned scientist, teacher and Nobel laureate? Perhaps through perpetual motion.Severo Ochoa de Alboronz was born in Luarca in the Northern Spanish province of Asturias on September 24, 1905. The youngest of Carmen de Alboronz and Severo Ochoa’s seven children was far from the mountains of his birth when his father’s death...
June 8th, 2009
Written by David Wolfford in Race & Politics with 0 Comments
Recently, former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation to defend Bush administration interrogation techniques early in the war on terror, methods critics call “torture.” But the torture began at the conclusion of the interview when moderator Bob Schieffer asked Cheney whether he preferred conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh or former Secretary of State Colin Powell...