By Senior Editor Kadia Goba, December 5, 2016 The gloomy opening shot of a cold Manchester Bay poetically provides a scenic tipoff of writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s two-hour, 15-minute film about the doldrums and calamities of the film’s characters in this…
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13TH Film Review, 54th New York Film Festival
By Senior Editor Kadia Goba, December 5, 2016 Once again, Ava DuVernay Executive Producer of the resounding SELMA, leads us through a sensitive but powerful cinematic voyage, this time, detailing the big business of mass incarceration and its menacing of…
CUNY J-School’s Post-Election Panel on Legal Protections and Rights of Undocumented Immigrants
The following passage is edited for context, accuracy and clarification for comments by Jojo Annobil, Executive Director, Immigrant Justice Corps, at the CUNY J-School forum, November 21. One-point-nine million of the undocumented population have lived in this country for…
OFF THE RAILS, Grand Jury Award Winner, DOC NYC Part – 2, Adam Irving Interview
Pictures courtesy of Adam Irving Adam Irving, researching ideas several years for his first full length documentary, was reading a Wikipedia article about people obsessed with trains and came across a Wikipedia article about Darius McCollum’s. “‘Darius McCollum has…
DOC NYC Seventh Annual Festival Awards
The Islands and the Whales, Off the Rails, Short Beside Manner won Grand Jury Prizes. Death By a Thousand Cuts won Audience Award. Wrapping November 17, this past Thursday, the festival started November 10 at the IFC Center, SVA…
OFF THE RAILS Film Review, DOC NYC – Part 1 [Editor’s Note: November 20 Update – Winner of Grand Jury Prize]
Pictures courtesy of Adam Irving OFF THE RAILS: Showcasing the Power of Art Where Journalism Can’t Go New Yorkers who missed the opening of Director/Cinematographer Adam Irving’s OFF THE RAILS that screened at the recent NYC DOCS festival and…
How Hunter Millennials Stay Informed About News – Part 4
By Contributing Writer Avid Maldonado, November 16, 2016 NBC, CNN, and the New York Times are just a few of the preferred news media outlets of students interviewed by this writer for this article about how they stay informed about…
How Hunter Millennials Stay Informed About News – Part 3
By Contributing Writer Andrew Henry The state of the news media is an important factor in this Democracy, effecting everyone from newborn babies in their cribs to the retirees fortunate enough to be vacationing in their vacation homes in these…
How Hunter’s Millennials Stay Informed About News – Part 2 by Contributing Writer Kashima Grant
By Contributing Writer Kashima Grant What Is News What is news? And why is “this” particular story considered news and why is “that” particular story considered news? I find myself asking the questions multiple times a day when I…
The Day After the U.S. Elections by OSM! Editor Marivir R. Montebon
The day after the U.S. elections, Wednesday, was warm but gloomy. My first bus ride was unusually subdued, unlike the previous days when people were either too bubbly or mean-spirited. This morning, people from all races: Asian, Black, Latino, White,…