Arts & Culture
The artist, Cecile Chong, with her sculptures. (Photo: Cecile Chong)SUNSET PARK – One hundred beautiful sculptures popped up in Sunset Park in June, with an equally beautiful message. El Dorado – The New Forty Niners by Cecile Chong [http://cecilechong.com/installations--sculptures.html] is a tribute to the New York’s
News
Red Cross volunteers aid victims of Ecuador’s May 16 earthquake (Image via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/26409477582/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz4Wq-afHwkp-afLhJG-afLhFb-7GzET3-9pyEbn-c8mauu-7GvPrK-7GQxtS-7K5Whx-7GLAFD-7GQxDh-Gkwc6Q-7GLB6z-FqUqWh-7GLApg-99LuME-wPg5eC-FsqpVU-GeHtAo-FXLcf5-FsqpTj-FXLcn9-FXLcjo-GeHtBA-GeHtH7-GnSBCH-FsAX8c-FXLcmY-qdV8fs-GkzDJ3-GnSBEM-FsqpXN-FsAX4p-FXLcjd/] ). [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/25896906034/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz
Events
Image via Flickr. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/25896906034/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz4Wq-afHwkp-afLhJG-afLhFb-7GzET3-9pyEbn-c8mauu-7GvPrK-7GQxtS-7K5Whx-7GLAFD-7GQxDh-Gkwc6Q-7GLB6z-FqUqWh-7GLApg-99LuME-wPg5eC-FsqpVU-GeHtAo-FXLcf5-FsqpTj-FXLcn9-FXLcjo-GeHtBA-GeHtH7-GnSBCH-FsAX8c-FXLcmY-qdV8fs-GkzDJ3-GnSBEM-FsqpXN-FsAX4p-FXLcjd/] You may have already heard about the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake that ripped through Ecuador [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-360865
Ecuador
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJD6N-SMzaQ Catholic Ecuadorians took to the streets of Bensonhurst Sunday in honor of La Virgen De La Nube, or the Virgin of the Cloud, a Roman Catholic devotion based on a legend that can be traced back to 17th-century Ecuador. Worshipers marched through 71st