Arts & Culture
Vinyl record sales keep climbing
By Matthew Adams Ask Discog’s marketing vice president why he collects vinyl records and he’ll give a fast reply: “The music … defines who it is that I am and the music that means something to me. I want to own it.” More customers buy music downloads and streaming music but the audience for vinyl […]
Prison experience infuses artist’s work
By Danilo Wrightsell Art-enthusiast Nastasia James did a few double-takes before she figured out just what kind of art she was looking at that evening in a Manhattan gallery. “When I walked in, at first, I was a bit confused [about] why I was seeing urinals,” said James, a jewelry designer, who was being introduced […]
Riffing Bruno to rein in physician burnout
By Shemar Forbes A group of medical students dance, sing and rap their way through hallways, operating rooms and elsewhere inside Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Practice harm reduction … Choice in reproduction … It’s people not patients we treat … Future docs, we all see. We must grant patient autonomy. Priya Makam […]
Black books, authors at Schomburg Festival
By Christoper Frazier In the countdown toward the Schomburg Literary Festival, author Tamara Payne, who was scheduled to be a panelist at that yearly gathering, talked about the power of books, especially ones by and about Black people. “Information is healing to people who’ve suffered … ” Payne said, and for those who can never […]