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What to do when someone writes terrible things about you on the Internet? Turn their comments into cute pieces of embroidery, obviously. Marie Brian, also known as the Cotton Floozy, creates and sells hilarious stitchings online. When she started receiving negative feedback — like so many other women on the Internet — … Read entire story.
Source: Arts News on The Huffington Post
A Confederate monument was recently removed from a park in Jacksonville, Florida, after orders from the city’s mayor. Crews removed the Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy monument from the city’s Springfield park on December 27. The monument had been in the park since 1915. Mayor Donna Deegan said the decision to order […]
In 1952, when the late Gabe Pressman (dean of New York City’s local TV press corps) was a young staff writer at the New York World-Telegram & The Sun, he came across a story tipped to him by a woman from Montreal who’d taken a cab ride in midtown Manhattan. This was the human-interest feature […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — We’re learning more about the recent controversy surrounding Syracuse City Ballet as the company and its dancers get ready for this weekend’s Nutcracker performance. Long hours and weeks of rehearsal with chaos building up behind the scenes for these dancers. Dancer quits Nutcracker after ‘uncomfortable encounter’ with Syracuse City Ballet management […]