Monthly Archives: February 2019
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Friends
I was walking past a construction site and in the empty windows, an artist had placed lego like figurines.
Music in your New Home
Roxbury Rhapsody
The plaque under this intriguing art reads:
Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Roxbury Rhapsody, 2015
Roxbury Rhapsody fuses together glass, cooper, and the many cultures and peoples of Boston into a single visual presence. The rich musical history of Roxbury served as an inspiration resulting in a wide spectrum of enamel of colors intended to stimulate viewers and create a visual composition. The vibrant enamel panels are created when powdered glass is fired onto copper sheets fusing the glass into metal.
New York Pizza
Bronx-Born Breakdancing Could Soon Be Olympic Sport — CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A dance style born in the Bronx could soon be an Olympic sport. That’s right, the International Olympic Committee is considering a proposal to bring breakdancing to the 2024 Paris games. BBoys and BGirls had a chance to show their stuff in the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, and there’s a…
via Bronx-Born Breakdancing Could Soon Be Olympic Sport — CBS New York
N.Y.P.D. Pizza
Everywhere you go, seems to have a pizza shop that tells you the pizza is just like New York Pizza…
Inside One Man’s Trip to the Idaho Camp Where His Great-Grandparents Were Interned During World War II — TIME
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed an Executive Order that allowed the internment of Japanese-Americans. Now, nearly eight decades later, one young man has documented his journey to visit the site where his family suffered. In total, the infamous Executive Order 9066 led to the rounding up of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, most of whom were…