by bob.sacha | Jun 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015 |
Glassblower extraordinaire Ben Barocas wants the high-end art glass pipes he makes to stand out from the pack. And you certainly can’t miss them – they come in his specialty shape of a cat butt. The rest of the story Manhattan glassblower Ben Barocas makes glass...
by bob.sacha | Jun 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 New York Stories of Compelling Issues, Student Stories Spring 2015
Who rides and builds freak bikes? Guys who take bike frames and weld them together to make something freaky and something wild. The materials we ride can become who we are. Some drive a Hummer, some where boat shoes and some people build and ride colossal freak bikes....
by bob.sacha | Jun 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 New York Stories of Compelling Issues, Student Stories Spring 2015
Carol Vischer is an equine veterinarian in Upstate New York. She embraces non-traditional medicine, like acupuncture, spinal manipulation and electroshock therapy.http://www.vimeo.com/127789892 Learn more: Carol Vischer is the owner of Northeast Performance Equine, a...
by bob.sacha | Jun 25, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015
87-year-old Leonard Kahn has sold fur coats to generations of New York women. He’s the last remaining furrier in his family, and sells new and refurbished furs out of a midtown showroom and workshop. The US-made fur industry is shrinking, but Kahn has no plans to...
by bob.sacha | Jun 25, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 New York Stories of Compelling Issues, Student Stories Spring 2015
A Russian high school girl awaits for her final asylum hearing that will determine her future. http://www.vimeo.com/127784219 More Info: Elza Kochueva, a russian a high school senior girl, is not like any other Russian. She is one of the many Mongolian descendants in...
by bob.sacha | May 15, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 New York Stories of Compelling Issues
Replace this line with Your 240 character description The rest of the story Jessica’s syory Transcript jessica’s transcript For more information, contact jessica’s contact...
by bob.sacha | May 2, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 New York Stories of Compelling Issues, Student Stories Spring 2015
What does it take to become a professional MMA fighter? Dedication. Endurance. Training. Amateur fighter Danny O’Chart Amateur fighter Danny O’Chart has all three but in New York, he won’t be able to fight professionally. New York is the only state that bans...
by bob.sacha | May 1, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 New York Stories of Compelling Issues, Student Stories Spring 2015
As U.S. and Iran try to improve their political relationship, Amir Vahab, a renowned Persian and Turkish Sufi musician living in New York City, reflects on his experience and passion about the spiritual music in this short film, “Internal Revolution,” by...
by bob.sacha | Mar 26, 2015 | 2015_Spring, spring2015 Amazing odd jobs in New York City, Student Stories Spring 2015
Marsha Trattner is a sculptor and an artist. She’s also a blacksmith— the only one to teach this ancient art in New York City. The rest of the story Marsha Trattner was a sculptor. She then discovered blacksmithing and came to the realization that...
by bob.sacha | Feb 17, 2015 | 2014 Fall Best stories
Psychoanalysis is a science and an art. See transcript Transcript : HL: “Are you aware that sometimes you did things, you didn’t know why you did them?” HL: So trying to understand, exploring the mind to show you what you wanted to see and what you...
by bob.sacha | Feb 17, 2015 | 2014 Fall Best stories
The artist Beatrice Glow created an ephemeral utopia on an old steamship in New York in September. She called her piece “The Floating Library” and filled the steamship with donated books. She asked visitors to turn off their phones, bind books and build furniture. She...
by bob.sacha | Feb 17, 2015 | 2014 Fall Best stories
Perl Wolfe and Dalia Shusterman, two Hasidic Jews living in Crown Heights, make up Bulletproof Stockings, a rock band that plays only for women. Bulletproof Stockings is changing the way Orthodox Jewry interprets kol isha, a law which prohibits Jewish men from...
by bob.sacha | Feb 17, 2015 | 2014 Fall Best stories
In the lead up to and the aftermath of the grand jury decision in Michael Brown’s case in Ferguson, MO, gun sales skyrocketed and gun training courses booked up. People who live in the predominantly white St. Louis suburbs, up to 30 miles away from Ferguson, bought...
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