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Edward Grazda lived in a cheap loft on Bleecker Street when he began a career as a photographer. It was a different New York then, when rent was only $ 250 a month and the city streets were more of a communal space for characters from all walks of life. “It’s a different world now […]
Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images “I don’t know. I’m not a diplomat.” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made that admission during a meeting with Russian and Iranian foreign ministers at the United Nations headquarters late last month. Tillerson had gathered officials involved in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran in what turned out to be a […]
Reuters/Joshua Roberts President Donald Trump’s administration came out swinging at North Korea after its latest nuclear test. Trump threatened to cut off all trade with any country that traded with Pyongyang; Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., accused North Korea of “begging for war”; and Defense Secretary James Mattis appeared to up the […]
CIRA/RAMMB; GOES-16/NOAA Irma, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in recorded history, hit several Caribbean islands as a Category 5 storm on Wednesday, leaving devastation and destruction in its wake. Meanwhile, storms Jose and Katia are also brewing. Katia is now a Category 2 hurricane with 100-mph winds, and Jose and Irma are both Category […]
Lewis Hine/Library of Congress The first Labor Day was celebrated Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. It was made a federal holiday in 1984, just days after federal troops ended the bloody Pullman strike. The origins of the holiday — springing from Industrial Revolution-era clashes between workers and employers — have largely faded […]
Researchers comparing mental health and addictions services across provinces have found striking differences in the rates of youth suicide attempts. CBC | Health News
AP Photo/David J. Phillip The US military is on and above the ground in Texas. After Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of the Gulf Coast and brought up to 50 inches of rain to parts of Houston, the US military and state National Guard joined in rescue and recovery efforts. It’s pretty clear from the photos […]
Published time: 22 Aug, 2017 23:21 The first 13 arraignments of protesters and counter-protesters at a Boston “free speech” rally have concluded. Some attendees purportedly hit police officers with their hands and threw water bottles at them while exercising their first amendment rights. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said that the 13 defendants were […]
Pyongyang said that it has been working on a plan to launch a medium-range ballistic missile at a US airbase in Guam. This comes after US bombers flew over the Korean Peninsula with Korean and Japanese warplanes. Denouncing the flyover by the US bombers as an “actual nuclear drill” that is “driving the regional situation […]
Chicago-based artist Clarissa Bonet explores the psychological context of urban space in her photographs. Her series City Space, which we learned about on Booooooom, portrays the imposing physicality of architecture in a dense metropolis. The figures featured in her images are often performing mundane tasks, surrounded by a vast network of buildings that sometimes appear […]
