Posted mostly for the benefit of hettie_lz and the (very) few other people who know who the girl in the video is. For everybody else... Well, I hope you'll get something out of it anyway.

Due to, as my people would like to say, an unfortunate convergence of circumstances, my family isn’t really doing Christmas this year. My mom, Vlad and my grandma will get together for more of a Russian New Year thing next Sunday… And I suppose I’ll have to figure out how to get presents to Anna, John and Nadya later.

Anyway, for my birthday, my ( Read more... )

I'm mostly posting it for the benefit of hettie_lz and annanov, who know who Song is, and who her mom, Randi, is. But I think even if you don't know the people involved, you can appreciate a mom who went through the trouble of putting together a view of a story her daughter wrote (and drew). And that Song actually did a pretty job voicing it, considering how young ( Read more... )

When it comes to its open mics, Writer’s Studio has (mostly) strict rules. Whatever the readers read has to be double-spaced, in Times New Roman 12-point font and under two pages. So when I found out that there was a good chance I would be able to make the December 6, 2018 open mic, I wondered if I could even bring anything. Over the past two years ( Read more... )

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Back on Tuesday, October 31, Robert Feder reported that Linze Rice, DNAinfo Chicago's reporter for Edgewater, Rogers Park and West Ridge, left the company. I immediately went to check the site's careers page. Her leaving the company, I reasoned, created an opening, and an opportunity to have a full-time journalism job covering a neighborhood where ( Read more... )

Originally posted by overheardnyc at I Forgot What a Mean Little Drunk You Are

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/013785.html

Little girl: Mommy, I have a headache.
Mom: Well, maybe we should just get you some sake.
Little girl: What?
Mom: I mean tea. Hot tea.
-Grey’s Art Museum

Remember the Chicago rally in support of NYPD officer Peter Liang I wrote about on Saturday? While the controversy seems to have barely caused a ripple in Chicago (beyond the city's Chinese-American community), it is still very much an issue back in New York City. Liang may have been convicted, but he's not going to actually be sentenced until ( Read more... )

I was heading to the Argo Tea location in Chicago's Theater District to write an article when I saw that police officers standing around the intersection of Dearborn and Randolph streets. At first, I didn't quite realized what was going on, but once I got closer, I saw that Randolph was cleared of cars for several blocks, and for a good reason - a ( Read more... )

For the past few days, I've been in New York, hanging out with Randirogue and her husband, Don. I'm going to write more about this visit later (not quite sure when, because, at this point, I got a bit of a backlog, but I do want to do it eventually). For now, I wanted to put something together, mostly for the sake of my mom, my siblings, and the English- ( Read more... )