Victor Pate's piercing brown eyes guard the weight of his painful past as if they hold the key to a dark and lonely place he's been before. Pate, a 70-year-old who served 15 years behind bars, began to recount his time spending two years in
The pensive silence of the Orthodox Church service was broken by a violent, rhythmic clatter on Great Friday this past spring. The unsettling sound came from the balcony, where a man cranked a large wooden box with a meticulous arrangement of small oak hammers called
On a Wednesday evening in May, the crowd at Brooklyn’s Littlefield venue went wild over host Fred Firestone’s warm-up puns. He called out prompts, and the audience shouted their best answers back to him. “Podiatrists know not victory,” he said, “but –”
“DE-FEET!” the crowd roared.
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April 15 was Holy Saturday in the Orthodox calendar, one day before Orthodox Pascha (Easter).
In Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter, this day is marked by the annual Miracle of Holy Fire ritual in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Throngs of worshipers bearing unlit candlesticks crowd around
Attacks on Christian holy sites and Christian clergy have risen precipitously this year. Sadly, examples abound. Days after the new year, two Israeli Jewish teenagers were caught on camera vandalizing and destroying 30 graves at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem.
Weeks later, a mob
When Benjamin Schwartz, 25, moved from New Jersey to New York City in 2021, he felt lonely. He was working from home as an advisor for Deloitte, and his days would often start with him crawling out of bed to get his computer and then
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James Stevenson is a well-known British guitarist based in London who has come to the U.S. to perform at least four to five times yearly since 1979. However, Stevenson might not return because of the recent proposed fee increase on the visa he needs.
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