Local Voices

At the beginning of 2014, I started a weekly, year-long hand-lettering project. The name of the project is "Pay Attention To Your Dreams," and that was also the name of the first piece I illustrated.

As a small business owner in Central Brooklyn, failure is always on my mind. I can never get it out, it is always there. Like a first-time parent, I constantly worry.

DIVAS for Social Justice and The Awake Youth Project @ Brooklyn Zen Center and Central Brooklyn Organizing for Action have launched a website to recognize youth who have been lost to gun violence.

VALENTINE'S DAY INVASION Neither Polar Vortex, Sochi Olympics or NY Fashion Week can stop it, so it's coming whether you like it or not and this year it coincides with the Presidents Day weekend, which means an extra day to make the magic last.

I dread washing my hair! After detangling and washing my hair, I look around on the floor at all of the hair that has shed and pull the hair out of the drain and I swear I there is enough to donate to two small children.

It's not the 60s and it's not the Beatles era, but there seems to be an invasion of Brits: "The British are coming, the British are coming!" through every town. "And this time it is not Paul Revere.

P retty much since the early aughts, which is Internet speak for the decade that started right after Y2K, early February has ushered in a most heinous situation.

Jessica and Jonah Bennett victims of airplane incident "Shut that [N-word] baby up!" Those were the words that Joe Rickey Hundley spewed at Jessica Bennett and her 19-month-old son Jonah right before he slapped Jonah, leaving a scratch under his litt

My best friend asked me if I would ever put one of those stuffed animal leashes on my daughter.

There are only a few things on our good green earth that's bigger than the Superbowl. There's Pharrell's 2014 Grammy hat...