By BARBARA and JACO ten HOVE One of the many stirring messages of the recent film “Milk” is how the…
By Tom Tyner While much of the rest of the civilized world was fully engaged in deciding whether to make…
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A recent cover of the New Yorker magazine carried a cartoon of a character in flimsy garb and carrying a…
The year 2008 will likely be best remembered as the year in which we elected our first African American president….
In middle school, one teacher told my class that whenever he told new acquaintances that he taught 13-year-olds, their responses tended to fall somewhere on a spectrum between laughing incredulousness and outright shock. “You’d subject yourself to more time in middle school?” they’d demand of him. “But aren’t the kids horrible? That’s the worst age!”
By MAGGIE PETTIT Guest Columnist Urbaite, Noon, Dec. 22 Luckily, the first-ever cell tower in Urbaite was finally turned on…
