Eleven pre-teen girls in Ballet Hispanico’s Spanish dance class stand at attention at one edge of the room, heels up, ruffled skirts pulled at the hip and chins pushed forward. While some faces betray intense concentration, others are ready to go ahead and charge.
“I want bullfighter girls,” cheered their teacher, Sandra Rivera, before starting their Paso Doble music. “Let me see a beautiful position… Enjoy yourselves!”
My school is among the noted for our partnership with The Local - Fort Greene and the New York Times. When a Journalism School partners with a local media outlet - everyone wins! Students get a chance to gain clips - and media outlets get investigative (although sometimes stumblingly investigative) journalism.
Whole Living reports this awesome story on Colorado State University researchers who’ve developed a way to reduce our research dependency on animals!
Emily Fisher Landau donated over 400 pieces of bold American Artwork to The Whitney Museum of American Art – on display now. She began her love of forward-thinking art as a volunteer at The Whitney almost 50 years ago. When they collected, she collected, and now the Whitney is offering anyone in New York City the opportunity to see one collector’s vision in one space. The Emily Fisher Landau exhibit is on now though May, but many of her works will still be displayed on the walls of the Whitney.
See works from Robert Mapplethorpe, Ed Ruscha, Warhol, Nan Goldin and more…
Gina’s Journey (via cdelshad)
Amazing story of sadness and hope from a new Egyptian Bride. Produced by Carmel Delshad and Nathan Frandino at CUNY’s Graduate School for Journalism.
Where have all the good tear jerkers gone? I’m talking about the ones that had you setting up your tissue box strategically right at the beginning.
My favs have to be Steel Magnolias and Beaches. Check out this great CBS Sunday Morning piece, where the disappearance of good crying movies may have something to do with a serious lack of appreciating the female audience.
A Moving Letter from Egypt About the Role of Children in Tahrir Square - Culture - GOOD
Article from a professor…. I say - if you don’t give the kids something to do - they will eat all of your candy and make such a raucous being better protesters than you, that they’ll inevitably steal your thunder….
America’s Brain Drain (via CBSNewsOnline)
President Obama’s State of the Union appealed for a stronger emphasis on sciences. This CBS piece explores that idea to the Nth degree.
Foreign students come to this country and then bring their smarts back home. But we can cultivate our own educated youth - by helping out all those kids who are super smart but fall through the cracks because of part-time jobs and a lack of inspiration.
CBS NEWS - amazing job…
There are still good people out there. And you have to wonder - when you help another person, are you helping them forever or just for that moment in time?
Check out this great letter to the editor for The Local, Fort Greene about a woman, a shoplifter, and 9 cans of dog food.
