Category Archive: Newspaper Clips

12 Mar

Reconstructing Ireland at home

Reconstructing Ireland at home

Paul Pigman remembers running his hand along the emerald blades of grass that covered the sweeping limestone ridges of his ancestor’s land and feeling the tip of each drag against his palm.

 
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10 Feb

At the Cloisters, a pagan teaching moment

At the Cloisters, a pagan teaching moment

Twelve necks crane and 24 eyes squint to see the faded wall painting in the shadows, set deep in the apse of Fuentidueña Chapel. Mary the Virgin and a Baby Jesus dominate the scene in the center, flanked by the winged Michael and Gabriel on each side. Beside them stand the Three Magi, bearing gifts. “This is the typical use of pagan iconography in Christian themes,” Nahson said.

 
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04 Feb

A ritual for a rainy day

A ritual for a rainy day

It’s pouring rain outside, but all Christy Tomacek can think about is the sun shining.

 
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05 Dec

The President of Clinton Hill

The President of Clinton Hill

ARTHUR WOOD remembers that he wanted to be president. Not the kind that runs a nation and lives on Capitol Hill, but the kind of visionary president that runs a university of his own design and lives on a different kind of hill – Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

 
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09 Nov

In Bed-Stuy, West Indians redefine Brooklyn’s black mecca

In Bed-Stuy, West Indians redefine Brooklyn’s black mecca

If you happen to receive an invitation to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday in Bedford-Stuyvesant with Catherine Lewis – better known as “Miss Catie” by the neighborhood – by all means, take it. Her animated personality and jovial laugh will keep you slapping your knee well into the night. But when you finally sit down at Miss Catie’s table for the evening’s meal, try not to appear alarmed when your eyes survey the table and can’t locate the candied yams, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie that make up the usual trimmings of the most traditional of American meals.

 
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01 Nov

On Halloween, a four-legged fright in Bedford-Stuyvesant

On Halloween, a four-legged fright in Bedford-Stuyvesant

The night for mischievous tricks may have passed, but a horde of Halloween costumes will be on parade to treat visitors to Brooklyn this weekend – from beautiful ballerinas to “notorious” gangster rappers and every Cinderella in between. All you’ll have to do is look down at your feet to see them.

 
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23 Oct

Bullets fly in Bed-Stuy

Bullets fly in Bed-Stuy

Like any three-year-old, Jayla Taylor has a fondness for candy. But an evening trip to fulfill her craving at a Brooklyn candy store a week ago nearly ended her life.

 
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11 Oct

Illegal dumping and litter mar historic Bedford-Stuyvesant

Illegal dumping and litter mar historic Bedford-Stuyvesant

On radiant, sunlit afternoons, Wilma Atwell – or “Bee,” as she’s known in her neighborhood – likes to go out in front of her colonial-style house and water her garden. “It’s so nice here,” she said. “I’ve been living here 21, 22 years. I love it.” Eleven blocks west and 14 blocks north of Atwell’s “farm house,” as she likes to call it, a man dressed head-to-toe in black rifles through a plastic trash bag, four feet long and stuffed with the castoffs of the college students that live in an adjacent building.

 
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09 Oct

‘One-in-a-trillion’ odds for suspect in Brooklyn murder

‘One-in-a-trillion’ odds for suspect in Brooklyn murder

New York City police officer Ruslan Matdiip couldn’t remember much of anything about what he did on Nov. 28, 2005. On that day – the same day that fellow officer Dillon Stewart was gunned down on the job for making a routine stop in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn — Matdiip knew he had looked for evidence at the scene of the crime. He was sure that he followed department procedure, and he knew that eventually, a spent Luger nine-millimeter shell casing was found at the scene, three short blocks away from Prospect Park.

 
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26 Sep

With a full-service tearoom, a new code of conduct in Bedford-Stuyvesant

With a full-service tearoom, a new code of conduct in Bedford-Stuyvesant

Kate Cranston and Emily Post would be pleased. A centuries-old culture is returning to Brooklyn, and it’s bringing its pinky finger with it.

 
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