Earlier this month, a fire erupted in an Oakland warehouse, killing 36 people. Many local sports teams, including the Golden State Warriors, have contributed money to the Oakland fire relief efforts. The Warriors announced this in a tweet on December 7. While many fans were supportive of Golden State’s donation, others were not pleased by […]
I did not think that I would like “The Color Purple,” on Broadway. When my Arts of New York City professor announced that we were going to see this show when reviewing our syllabus back in August, I was disappointed. Why couldn’t we see “Aladdin”, or “Kinky Boots,” or “Hamilton?” When I think ‘Broadway,’ I […]
Gridlock in New York City has come to an ultimate high this holiday season. The hustle and bustle of holiday decorating in conjunction with the election of a candidate who hails from New York, has placed the metropolitan hub and economic center into a major traffic alert zone. In accordance with the New York City […]
In June of 2014, police officer Daniel Pantaleo murdered 43-year-old Eric Garner with a chokehold. Garner died over allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes, a trivial crime. The real tragedy here is not Garner’s, death, though heartbreaking and avoidable; it lies in the fact that Pantaleo was in his full legal bounds to do what he did. In […]
Having come from countries where counterfeit medication is a salient issue, and with a vested interest in medicine themselves, Bishoy Ghobryal (CCNY ’15) and Da Wi Shin (CCNY ’15) came up with a health IT solution to this problem with the help of various advisors. Their advisor Dr. Rajesh Vedanthan, a cardiologist at Mt. Sinai who […]
The Chicago Bulls made a plethora of moves this offseason that were highly controversial in the NBA realm. First, they dealt their hometown player, Derrick Rose, who spent the first eight seasons of his career in Chicago. Of course, some Bulls fans were hurt by this move. Rose was not the only old face on the […]
Halloween at the William & Anita Newman Vertical Campus was anything but haunted; Baruch introduced “Avenue C,” the college’s freshly-designed, pioneer food and beverage multipurpose mart, to students, faculty, and campus visitors. Centrally located in the main dining hall on the first floor of the main building, the well-anticipated café mart has reopened with a […]
“BUT WE’RE NOT EVEN JEWISH!!!” A little girl shrieks at her mother at the edge of the entrance to the Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History exhibit. Clearly exasperated, and even more embarrassed, the woman whispers something sharply in her daughter’s ear before yanking her small, squirming frame into the display room. Later, my ever-keen grandmother told […]
Changing tides of British colonialism intersect with the awakening of repressed sexuality in Caryl Churchill’s dark, insightful, and wonderfully odd play, Cloud 9. Currently gracing the stage at The Performance Space at Queens College, the production is at once humorous, thought-provoking, lewd, and intimate. Not a play for the faint of heart (or the conservative […]
There are currently 7.8 billion people in this rapidly growing world. This uncontrollable growth in population has put great stress on the global food supply. Even developed countries like the United States has seen the effects of a limited food supply but many people in first world countries do not reach the point of starvation […]
