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Hillsborough residents graduate from college
Kristin Gahona, daughter of Donna and Leo Gahona of Hillsborough, graduated magna cum laude at Rutgers University on May 22, with a bachelor of arts degree in American studies and history/political science.
Aperture Foundation Announces Winners of the Strand's First Ever Photography Contest
Aperture , Pratt, and the Strand Book Store are pleased to announce the winners of the Eye on the Strand photography contest, which kicked off last fall and concluded March 31, 2009.
Ben on Film - 'Ice Age' designer has family ties to Wilmington area
Scrat the saber-toothed squirrel meets a love interest named Scratte in 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.' Published: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 5:08 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 5:08 p.m. Hope and Vince Cusick of Hampstead will probably be heading to the movies this weekend to catch "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs." Not that they're ...
"God Says No" author Hannaham on life in the closet
At a time when legal gay marriage is spreading across the country and when "American Idol's" Adam Lambert's coming out on the cover of Rolling Stone elicits not a gasp but a shrug, it's easy to forget just how shameful and bewildering being gay in America can be.
From Dresses to Glue: Swedish Design Award Honors Exceptional Creations
The Swedish Design Award , presented to exemplary objects across a diverse span of categories, demands of its recipients that their work be sustainable, financially viable, and perform in practice as well as they might have appeared as concepts.
Kornbluth feted at Monhegan's Island Inn
MONHEGAN : Frances Kornbluth, artist and longtime summer resident, is exhibiting 15 to 20 pieces done between 1975 and 2005 in the dining room at The Island Inn on Monhegan Avenue.
Acclaimed Artist at Academy Show | "Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Mario Cooper, Dale Meyers"
Toyko Canal, Houseboat, a watercolor by Mario Cooper is part of the exhibition that opens Friday.
Fort Greene, Bed-Stuy Hit Hard by Foreclosures
" Skyrocketing home foreclosures struck Brooklyn hard over the past year, and to address the issue and help homeowners in two hard-hit neighborhoods, Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Congressman Edolphus "Ed" Towns held a community workshop at Pratt Institute.
To see the photogallery for this and other area graduations, click here. Days of dreary weather gave way to sunshine Friday afternoon for the graduates of Central Bucks South High School's Class of 2009.
from the Brooklyn AERIEJune 17, 2009
If Norm Coleman should win the disputed Senate seat in Minnesota he will be the third graduate of Brooklyna TMs James Madison High School to serve in the current U.S. Senate.
Love this. Marianne van Ooij wrote to me today to tell me about a product that she introduced this past May at the ICFF in New York called Slim Shelving .
NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA
Industrial art; Local artist finds inspiration in the mechanics and parts of old machines
"I just really love old industrial design, like the shape of it," Odell said. "It's something that you never see anymore." Odell, a 2008 graduate of Pratt Institute in New York who majored in painting and minored in art history, is presenting her first art exhibit in a gallery setting at Newburyport's Firehouse's Center for the Arts.
CATALYST Strategic Design Review
If you like strategic design thinking with a healthy dose of green, check out the new CATALYST Strategic Design Review , produced by the graduate Design Management Program at Pratt Institute and edited by Erin Weber.
Jill Biden to Speak at Kingsborough Graduation
BROOKLYN a ' As graduation season draws to a close after getting into full swing last month, political speakers in particular were in hot demand across the country this year.
Roxy Paine Makes "Dendroid" for National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art has commissioned American sculptor Roxy Paine to make a stainless steel Dendroid, as the artist calls his series of treea 'like sculptures.
ESDC: Atlantic Yards Project Will Shrink
Perkins, Montgomery, et al NEW YORK CITY-Whistles, shouts and the big inflatable rat used by construction unions to mark non-union work-sites greeted attendees of a New York State Senate "fact finding" hearing that attempted to have a look at the controversy-laden Atlantic Yards project this past Friday at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Midland Center for the Arts hosts artist's paintings of gritty...
Having walked, driven or observed the streets of Detroit for many years, an industrial designer by occupation recalled those images as he entered retirement.
LIRR chief: Sweeter MTA deal for Ratner could get Yards back on track
Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner is poised to receive new generous terms from the MTA that could jumpstart his stalled mega-project even as a new report revealed that the city and state would actually lose money on the $4-billion arena, housing and office complex.
Brooklyn Day (2008) vs. Perkins hearing (2009); why FCR's operatives got better results
So, why was Brooklyn Day , the Forest City Ratner-sponsored event June 5 at Borough Hall, such a dud , while the FCR-orchestrated response at the state Senate oversight hearing on Friday succeeded in disrupting the event and--in some news accounts --overshadowed more analytical coverage ? Here are a couple of suggestions: 1) It's easier to be ...
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State Senators held a public hearing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on Friday to get a sense of where things stand for developer Bruce Ratner's $4.2 billion dollar dream of building a Nets arena and mixed-use towers on a 22-acre site that includes part of the MTA railyards.