IT SEEMS AS IF WANEGECHI MUTU is the kind of artist who would hesitate to define herself based on a place — neither her birthplace of Nairobi, Kenya, nor Brooklyn, where she lives now. Instead, the provocative collage maker sees herself as a “contemporary, urban-raised woman.” Maybe that’s why she’s able to pull off her [...]

Brit-ney Britney Spears is at it again: The pop princess has been videotaped “numerous times” in the last few weeks using a British accent, reports People.com. She sounds like a Brit even when angry; on a shopping trip earlier this month, the star used the accent while screaming at paparazzi. “She could simply be behaving [...]

Erie Times-News Published July 27, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman All the world may be a stage, but these kids aren’t merely players. There was acting, yes, but also the trying on of costumes, running amok in the theater, attending workshops and, at one point, drumming on the floor to illustrate Shakespearean meter. It’s all part [...]

Erie Times-News Published June 25, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman The spirited 18-year-old was unsure how to pronounce “Henri Cartier-Bresson, ” one of the fathers of modern photography, but she knew she liked his work. And the work of her parents, Barb and Mike Priestap, of Photogenesis Photography on West 26th Street. And the work of [...]