Latino Rebels:
“The Fight to Never Forget About Those Who Died From COVID-19”
Fiana Tulip is part of a growing group of activists from Marked by COVID that are now telling their stories. Even as the pandemic subsides in the United States, these grieving family members will not rest. They now want Congress to take action against the disinformation —online and in traditional news media— that they say killed their parents. This disinformation can be particularly vicious in Spanish-speaking communities, leading to what researchers have called an infodemic. This one cannot be solved with a vaccine.
PoliticsNY:
Two opponents team up to topple the Bronx machine in today’s special election
It had all the makings of a smokey, backroom deal typical of the insider boys club in the Bronx, with a few exceptions. There was no smoke. There were no boys. And the back room was a kosher, vegetarian farm-to-table cafe.
Experts, voters address environmental threats is District 31
Residents of District 31 in southern Queens know what it’s like to have flooded streets on a sunny day just because of high tide. They remember the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Sandy because they are still living with it. The candidates running to represent them in Tuesday’s special election, however, are quiet on environmental issues.
NYCity News Service:
EXPANDING BUSINESS MODELS TO SURVIVE
For Parul Patel, closing her family’s iconic Gem Spa corner store in the East Village after 35 years was meant to be temporary. She took over from her father, who was working to reintroduce the store’s vintage soda shop vibe before he fell ill. Now, Patel sells branded T-shirts out of her garage in New Jersey.
Received honors recognition from the Associated Collegiate Press.
When the Rev. Wilfredo Benitez records weekly Zoom sermons for his Episcopal congregation from his City Island home, his inspiring words are often accompanied by a familiar soundtrack—bursts of gunfire.
“It’s like living in a war zone,” he says.
Across Eastchester Bay in Pelham Bay Park at Rodman’s Neck, the NYPD’s only firing range sends a barrage of noise—including that of the occasional bomb detonation—into the home the priest shares with his wife, Rose Deats Benitez.
Dramatics Magazine:
QUIET COMMANDER: PROFESSIONAL STAGE MANAGEMENT ON AND OFF BROADWAY
THE UNNOTICED STARS of the show wear all black and remain in shadows. Stage managers serve as timekeepers, surrogate directors, and confidants of the company: from chorus to leading player. They have the power to make a show work.
Medium:
The most marginalized voices say hands off Section 230, Mark
The tech tribunal has spoken. In a much-anticipated sequel to last year’s congressional testimony from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Google’s Sundar Pichai, the giants appeared again before two House subcommittees on March 25.
Little All to Spare: The undiscovered story of Biosphere 2
On April 4, 1994, Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo are running through the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Oracle, Arizona. At 5am in the morning, this is the only time to avoid the crowds that gather outside of Biosphere 2. If they are quick and undiscovered, they can save the inhabitants of the science experiment from suffocating on their own carbon dioxide omissions.
selected Theater is Easy reviews:
Who knew horrible things could be so joyous.
Édouard Louis investigates the roots of violence as told by the clinical, manic direction of Thomas Ostermeier.
Will Arbery searches for “something true” in conservative rhetoric.
Daddy issues are an understatement in Jeremy O. Harris’s newest work, a melodrama with operatic proportions that feels strikingly vacant.
A bad-ass Richard III in keeping with the ethos of 2017 and the last gasp of powerful white men.