Make-A-Wish Foundation, a non-profit organization granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, held its Spirits, Wine and Wishes Benefit at Pier 60 this past month. Aimed at creating life-changing experiences for children and their families, providing them with hope, strength, and joy during difficult times, Make-A-Wish has granted over 500,000 wishes since its […]
NYC Protest: The protest for Palestine in Manhattan this past month was one of a kind. Erected in wake of ongoing displacements, settlement expansions, and militarized upsurged in East Jerusalem, Palestinian voices have risen to the surface. Loud and clear, “Free Free Palestine, from the River to the Sea,” descendants of grandparents dispossessed of their […]
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
