Local Voices

And the winner Is I'm not a big movie person! There, I said it and I feel no ways about it.

This week, Living the Dream Larger than Life speaks to Dui Jarrod. Dui Jarrod is a film producer and director, known for Lesson Before Love (2011), My Angel (2008) and Nothing More, Nothing Less (2008).

Are vaccines causing more diseases than they cure? I had my immunization shots as a child, so I didn't think too much to have my own child immunized shortly after birth and at her following doctor's appointments.

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.