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Camille Martin Redefines Luxury Skin Care for Women of Color by Roderick Thomas

By summer 2022, Camille Martin had managed to raise three million dollars to fund breakthrough advancements in skin care products designed with women of color in mind. As she enters a space now dominated by celebrity owned or endorsed products, Camille is staying focused on her mission to provide safe, luxury skin care for women of color––products that could change […]

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Italian leader Meloni is more politican than fascist by Dario Pio Muccilli, Star-Revue EU correspondent

Is fascism back to Italy? Is Italy going towards its own Trump age? Are civil rights in danger in Italy? Those are the questions now spreading all around the world as Giorgia Meloni, an Italian far-right politician, won Italy’s last elections on September 25th, those which have been the most covered by the international press since at least twenty years […]

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The Frankenstorm, by Joe Enright

On October 29th, 2011, thunder-snow was heard in Central Park as up to six inches of snow fell across the City, the earliest heavy snow in our history. In retrospect, an eerie omen of what nature had in store exactly one year later. 2011 Oct 29 The Frankenstorm came ashore near Atlantic City on a Monday at 7:30 PM.  Its […]

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Agreement to Monitor Large Whales Locally Extended to 2028, by Erin DeGregorio

On Sept. 7, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Empire Wind announced the extension of their agreement to monitor large whales in the lease area of Empire Wind—an offshore wind project located in the New York Bight off the southern coast of Long Island—from 2022 to 2028. The new agreement ensures that important data to protect wildlife in the New […]

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Meet the comedian who taught JLO and Keke Palmer how to Strip, by Roderick Thomas

Nightlife and New York City are almost synonymous. People from all over the world come to America’s most populous city to jump start their dreams or establish careers —- Jacq (Jacques) Frances was no different. Known as Jacq the Stripper, Jacq traveled to New York City, transformed into a nightlife guru and stripper, then worked with Jeniffer Lopez and Keke […]

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Marie’s Craft Corner

Turn old composition notebooks into decorative journals! At the start of each new school year, composition notebooks appear on my children’s school supply lists. By June, the notebooks are rarely filled up. Many have just a handful of pages that have been written on. No wonder I’ve accumulated a stack of partially used notebooks I feel bad throwing away. The […]

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Queens Singer Has a Red-Hot Summer Following EP Release, by Erin DeGregorio

International recording star and Queens native Carole Sylvan had a jam-packed summer complete with a new EP and gigs across New York City and Connecticut. First conceptualized in 2021 and released on July 1, “Something Goin’ On” made it into rotation across hundreds of U.S. radio stations within a month of its release date. Tracks full of timbres and tones […]

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Upcoming Films are shown at 7 PM at the Ukrainian Institute of America (2 E 79th St. in Manhattan)

Slovo House – Unfinished Novel (2021) / Thursday, August 18: In the 1930’s Kharkiv, an ambitious young poet happily settles in at the new luxury “Slovo” House, built specifically for artists. He is part of a generation of creative Ukrainians, who do not realize the high price they will pay for their success under the totalitarian regime. Toloka (2020) / […]

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RHAP becomes a Van Brunt neighbor, by Brian Abate

In 2009, the Red Hook Art Project (RHAP,) a non-profit was founded in order to provide free visual art and music classes, as well as academic and stress management instruction to children in the neighborhood. Now, thirteen years later, RHAP is going strong and is opening up a new building on the corner of Van Brunt St. and Pioneer Street, […]