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Mary Walrath-Holdridge is an award-winning journalist and communications professional. She was formerly the Senior Founding Editor of the Trends team at Newsweek. She received her master's in arts journalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School and her interests are informed by her extensive background as a writer and content specialist across a variety of mediums.
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On one of the first warm Saturday mornings of spring, Rae's Institute of Dance was bustling with teens in leotards and tight buns and parents shuffling them in and out. Music from a hip hop class and loud, high pitched chatter could be heard from a studio hidden in the back of the building.
With Broadway-credited artistic director Hunter Foster at the helm, the Redhouse Arts Center plans to take on the theme of family in 2019-2020 season, exploring how its different iterations inform the American and human experience.
Kathleen Britton Michael Hanlon If there is one thing historians in Rochester know, it's that the Flower City has more interesting ties to significant people and events than the average person would expect. Frederick Douglass, Susan B.
When Jordan Kassalow graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1979, he already knew he had some choices to make. Though he wanted to pursue a career that would provide him stability and a chance to grow in the future, he didn't want his desire for a "good" career to mean sacrificing doing good in the world.
In a crowded graffitied warehouse in downtown Syracuse, the only pop of color among the sea of black clothes was red. Red lipstick and red checkered flannels stood out in the Spark Contemporary Art Space as the groups of 20-and-30-somethings milled around in their best edgy band T-shirts, Converse and combat boots.
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[WINNER of SPJ D.C. Dateline Award for BEST NON-BREAKING COVERAGE 2016.] James Jones is a fighter: sixty-six years old, legally blind and confined to a wheelchair. The first week of October, he found himself back outside with a single pair of clothes and the few possessions he could fit on his lap. For the first time in a long time, Jones had no bed to return to that night.
Unlike walks outside or time spent in the garden, ziplining is not an activity that comes to mind as a "spring" one. The-seven stop, 5,000-foot canopy ziplining tour at Bristol Mountain, however, not only soldiers on through both the cold and mild months but offers special seasonal discounts to those interested in taking the plunge.
[WINNER of SPJ D.C. Dateline Award for BEST SERIES 2016.] A Foggy Bottom tent community - referred to by some as a "secret" encampment, due to how long it had gone unnoticed - was evicted by the District on Oct.18. Such "sweeps" are organized and overseen by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services (DMHHS) as a continuation of procedural clean up efforts that began receiving increased attention from the Bowser Administration in November 2015.
"Love. I've dedicated this to all the people who I ever truly or really loved, plus those knowing my darkest hours are just before my dawn." -Kanell Washington, "My Moms and Twin " Kanell Washington, also known as Kenneth Ward and "The Living Legend," died of kidney failure on Oct.
Hundreds of protesters crowded into a small park sandwiched between busy streets. Ignoring the honking of passing cars and screaming of police sirens, they gathered to honor the life of Terrence Sterling and to demand information about the details of his death at the hands of D.C. Metropolitan police.
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On and around the first day of winter, Dec. 21, an estimated 112 events are being held in 39 states, honoring 2,675 people who have died while unhoused over the past year, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH).
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