Samantha Smith is remembered for her courage and efforts for peace in writing a letter to Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov in 1982.
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Wang Yani, Painter Prodigy
Wang Yani, born in China in 1975, is the youngest ever artist to have a solo show at The Smithsonian; she was fourteen.
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Chloe Sevigny, 1992
Before receiving the coveted ‘It Girl’ title, Chloe Sevigny was just another kid ditching school, taking the train into Manhattan to hang out in Washington Square Park.
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Boston Punks, 1982
Excerpts from Boston’s “Weekday” People Are Talking “Punk Rock 1982 episode” from Stone Films NYC on Vimeo.
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Mike Leigh’s “The Short and Curlies”
Mike Leigh‘s 1987 short film, The Short and Curlies, is a story of young love in suburban purgatory.
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Juvenile Delinquent Boys of Ishka, Russia
Photographs by Lise Sarfati of a colony for the reeducation of underaged delinquent boys through hard labor in Iksha, Russia, 1995.
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13 Yr Old Compares School System to Slavery
httpv://youtu.be/T-lG1Wb2AfM
Eighth grader Jada Williams, a student at School #3 in Rochester NY, wrote a compelling essay connecting the Rochester School System to Frederick Douglas’s The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, or slavery.
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Punk Girls of Houston, TX
Punk rock deep in the heart of Texas.
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“Times Square” Movie
One of my favorite teen and music themed movies of all time (a favorite genre to begin with) is Times Square.
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The Modern Sound Trio
The Modern Sound Trio was a jazz group composed of all blind high school students.