Celebrating Community
Teachers were thrown for an unprecedented loop last month when they were given just days’ notice to adjust their teaching methods and lesson plans in response to the escalation of COVID-19. On March 15, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City schools would be temporarily closed from March 16 to April 19, resulting in a move to a […]
Bride-to-be Tanya Gonzalez put the two pairs of custom Converse sneakers, which she and her fiancé Michael Sanchez designed together months ago, back in their boxes. The shoes were supposed to be worn at their wedding reception on May 15. But due to the coronavirus outbreak in New York City last month, their plans came to a sudden halt, leaving […]
February 23rd, the band and I played our second show at the Flying Lobster, the coolest new venue in Carroll Gardens/Columbia Street waterfront. Essentially the backroom of Le Petite Crevette, it’s a highly attractive place with a brick and wood interior, tin ceilings, great food and wine, and a vintage jukebox stocked with jazz 78’s. The group that night went […]