http://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/travel-the-globe-without-leaving-the-theater/article_972ac016-ab4c-503a-b514-eca6063f4e55.html By Anthony Medina Performers with thin white fabric over their bodies gather center stage. The lights are still dim and all the audience hears is the jingling of costume accessories. The house knows the first performance is on a …
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Their life-saving encounter in LIC
Anthony Forchelli suffered a severe heart attack on Oct. 19 in Long Island City while walking to his car at 45th Avenue and 21st Street, around 2 p.m. Forchelli had left his office at a corporate food service unusually early …
Hard times in Rincon, Puerto Rico
On Oct. 11, at 9 a.m, Jose Medina boarded a one-way flight to Puerto Rico. Three bags were carried across the terminal to the JetBlue check-in entrance. Two of them had tools, batteries and two large packets of beef jerky. …
A Hero of Hope lives in Queens
Luis Matos lost complete function of both kidneys at 25. His time as a football player, coach and organization manager seemed finished. Although his situation looked dire, Matos continued to help others in and out of his Ozone Park home. …
Street co-named for 9/11 responder
http://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/street-co-named-for-responder/article_d3daf897-51e6-52aa-8d7d-5831dc0ef111.html By: Anthony Medina It wasn’t an easy task to keep up with James Lanza when he was on the job with the FDNY’s Ladder 43/Engine 53 in Spanish Harlem, known as “El Barrio’s Bravest.” According to his close friend …
Marvel Makes Good on Netflix Television Series
Marvel Makes Good on Netflix Television Series By Anthony Medina Marvel’s The Defenders on Netflix combined the four original netflix series Jessica Jones, DareDevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, into one collaborative show. Marvel dominates Netflix with their original series starting with Daredevil and ending …
SAMURAI JACK RETURNS TO TELEVISION
Photo Credit: Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. All rights are owned by Cartoon Network. By: Anthony Medina The return of the artistically designed cartoon series Samurai Jack breaks its 12 year departure from television, airing on March 11 at 10:30 p.m. with …
York Film Festival Explores Black Lives Across the Globe
By: Anthony Medina For a Zanzibari boy, settled in a group of islands east of Africa, finding and keeping a group of fish alive becomes the toughest challenge in his young life. He searches through recycled bottles and local stores …
Movies of February Highlights Box Office success.
The Month of February held some box office hits including The Great Wall, 50 Shades Darker, and Lego Batman making millions around the globe. These drastically different movie genres reached adults looking for a reason to visit the movies on …
York’s Occupational Therapy Program Celebrates 40 years
Tess Mercer, 23, found her calling to Occupational Therapy at the age of 4-years-old. She vaguely remembers playing in a room filled with activities and overall just having fun. A woman, who she would later know as a close friend, …
