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Guest Post: Dockers Partners With Futures Without Violence To Prevent Abuse

June 16, 2011 By Marissa Leave a Comment
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Dockers has teamed up with Futures Without Violence to promote the RESPECT! Campaign. During the “Month of Respect,” which began on Mother’s Day (May 8, 2011) and ends on Father’s Day (June 19, 2011), Dockers has committed to working closely with the organization to bring light to the widespread, and often undisclosed, problem of relationship abuse. Dockers has not only pledged to donate $25,000, which will go to the campaign that mentors young boys to ensure that they are “respectful men of tomorrow,” they have also created a promotional … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: Mommy, What Happens When You Die?

May 9, 2011 By Gina Osher 11 Comments
Gina Osher

“Mommy, does Santa Claus die?” “Mommy, if you get stabbed by a light saber will you die?” “Mommy, what happens to your eyes when you die?” My 4-year old son has been lobbing these and other complex questions at me for about 6 months now.  It all began innocently enough, with the introduction of one of my favorite books from childhood: Babar.  Yes, Babar. Perhaps you will remember that Babar’s mother gets shot by a “wicked hunter” on page 3.  Did you remember that? I didn’t.  Well, that one incident opened up a line of … [Read more...]

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Guest post: Gibney Dance RETROSPECTIVE Concert

May 7, 2011 By Stephanie Mas Leave a Comment
Retroactive

Gibney Dance celebrates 20 years of evocative choreography with a retrospective season at The Ailey Citigroup Theater. Retro-ACTIVE will showcase Gina Gibney’s richly textured and intellectually challenging choreography featuring excerpts from Several Truths (2001), Time Remaining (2002), unbounded (2005), Thrown (2004), and View Partially Obstructed (2009). Curated by current company members Natsuki Arai, Andrew Avery, Courtney Drasner, Lily Ockwell and Joshua Palmer, four of these five pieces were adapted to include male dancers. Ailey Citigroup … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: Losing My Mom, Finding Myself

May 2, 2011 By Christina Simon 5 Comments
Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

My mom died when I was 19. She fought a 10-year battle with breast cancer, refusing treatment, dying at home. The details are too awful to describe. These are the things she never knew about me: • I graduated from UC Berkeley • I have a Master’s Degree from UCLA • I have two amazing kids • I married a wonderful guy • I miss her every day. Every single day. There was a lot she did know about me: • I loved her and still do. Always will. • I didn’t want her to die. I begged her not to die • I’d make it without her. … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: Checking in with Education at The New Victory Theater

March 18, 2011 By Jonathan Shmidt 5 Comments
New Victory Theater

Whether or not they know it, five year olds are not strangers to the art form of dance. They constantly move, play and explore the ways their bodies can travel in space. But how can you challenge a child to express feeling through dance and make artistic decisions in choreographing movement? The answer may lie in colorful pipe cleaners. This past Monday, armed with a bundle of colorful pipe cleaners (or “fuzzy sticks,” as they are referred to in most classrooms), I set out for PS 111 in midtown to lead a pre-show, in-classroom workshop for the … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: Life Is Sweet…If I Abandon My Cynical Outlook

March 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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There’s enough going on in the world these days to make even the calmest person’s blood pressure skyrocket. The Japanese earthquakes and tsunami, a collapsing global economy, revolutions in the Middle East, America fighting two wars and more. When I can’t watch the news anymore because it’s just too disturbing, I take a very deep breath and focus on what I have to be thankful for and what I can do to help those in need. Once I became a mom, I struggled to watch the news. It upset me in a way it never had before. I’ve talked with other … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: Fashion And Race: A Shopaholic Mom Abandons Her Favorite Designer

February 23, 2011 By 3 Comments
Fashion and Race

(This piece was originally posted on Technorati by author, Christina Simon.) I’m an admitted shopaholic. I’ll spend my last dollar on a great designer handbag or a good-fitting pair of jeans. I devour virtually every fashion magazine and clip pictures of my favorite looks. I even buy pricey European fashion magazines. And, I’ve recently started buying my ten-year-old daughter pieces from J. Crew’s fabulous Crew Cuts For Kids. So, the other day, on National Public Radio (NPR), a story about NY Fashion Week 2011 caught my attention. Pulitzer … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: My Nine-Year-Old Daughter’s Obsession with The Food Network

February 15, 2011 By Jenny Heitz Leave a Comment
Chopped

For the past few years, I’ve had a minor ongoing argument with my now nine-year-old daughter over what constitutes appropriate television fare. For a short time, she watched Hannah Montana and The Suite Life, until I realized she’d finish watching an episode and stroll back into the living room speaking like those pre-pubescent brats. Forget that: I have years of teenage rebellion looming ahead, and I don’t need to put up with verbal obnoxiousness early. One of the things she had noticed about us, her parents, was that we love food. We cook at … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: Cultural Event General Etiquette Rules (Straight From a Mom’s Mouth)

February 11, 2011 By Chrissie DiAngelus 2 Comments
Chrissie DiAngelus

A few weeks ago I was in New York City for the annual Arts Presenters Conference. As a performing arts professional, this conference is the big national conference drawing presenters, programming directors, artistic ensembles, producers, managers and agents from all over the nation and globe. Besides the business side of things, there is ample opportunity for all delegates to take in full performances and showcases. This year I made it a point to check out as much family/children’s programming as possible. I represent two theater and dance … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: To the Source of “Outsourced”/ The Importance of Being a Cultural Mom

January 29, 2011 By Maria Rainier 3 Comments
Outsourced NBC

Admittedly, I’m a few years late on this one: the independent film Outsourced came out in 2006, long before NBC turned it into a TV series in October of last year. Still, of all the films I watched on Netflix last week while drifting in and out of the flu and consciousness, this one is most worthy of note. The day I watched Outsourced, I’d already had a bad experience with another West versus East movie. No offense to funny man Albert Brooks, but Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World was cheap, superficial, and without revelation or redemption … [Read more...]

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