Archive for the ‘Features’ Category

Whirlwind of divinity sweeps through Queens

Posted on July 16th, 2009 by Stephen Stirling

TimesLedger Newspapers
Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:15 AM EDT
Via YourNabe.com
For a brief series of moments on Monday, a small slice of Queens was bathed in Hindu [...]

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Parrots don’t give a hoot about Con Ed owl

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Stephen Stirling

TimesLedger Newspapers
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:46 PM EDT
Parrots 2, Con Ed 0.
Queens’ electrical utility is losing the battle to the wild parrots that roost on [...]

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Flushing gal’s gift a hit with Rourke

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Stephen Stirling

TimesLedger Newspapers
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 5:27 PM EST
When Betina Wassermann sent an e−mail to Mickey Rourke’s agent Paula Woods a few days before the Academy [...]

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Get on the bus

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Stephen Stirling

TimesLedger Newspapers
Thursday, May 8, 2008 5:25 PM EDT
Heads bobbing like buoys in the open ocean, Jimmy Heath and Antonio Hart smile softly as pianist Jeb [...]

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A matter of the heart

Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Stephen Stirling

This article was part of a package that was awarded 3rd place for Writer of the Year in the New York Press Association’s 2007 Better [...]

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Young recalls Nanking massacre

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Stephen Stirling

By Stephen Stirling
TimesLedger Newspapers
12/20/2007
“It is a horrible story to relate; I know not where to begin nor to end. Never have I heard or read [...]

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Borough educators get taste of Flushing’s diversity

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Stephen Stirling

By Stephen Stirling
TimesLedger Newspapers
6/14/07
Mohammed Sherwani, director of the Muslim Center in Flushing, was quick to welcome 20 faculty members of LaGuardia Community College as they [...]

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Crossing the poverty line

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Stephen Stirling

This article was part of a package that was awarded 3rd place for Writer of the Year in the New York Press Association’s 2007 Better [...]

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Chapter of rock history closes with CBGBs

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Stephen Stirling

By Stephen Stirling
10/19/2006
One by one, former Ramones tour manager Monte Melnick has watched the clubs that made him a part of rock-n-roll history shut their [...]

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A one-man semi-acoustical jam: An interview with Keller Williams

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Stephen Stirling

By Stephen Stirling
PopMatters.com
10/05/05
The story reads like nearly every rise-to-success story ever written about a musician. It begins in Fredericksburg, Virginia with a quirky boy sitting [...]

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