This Month’s Featured Articles…

“And the OSCAR goes to …” But, hold on. Before we start handing out eight-and-a-half-pound statues, let’s begin with how we get there. The OSCARS … the Academy Awards … are presented every year by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). That esteemed body is made up of 8,469 individuals who are professionally related to the film business. They are directors, producers, actors, wardrobe masters, make-up artists, composers, editors, etc. – divided into 17 “branches” that cluster together individuals by the specific role [...]

Innovation can happen anywhere. From the grand halls of our institutes of higher learning, the expansive and unimaginably elaborate labs across the planet where we picture the world’s best scientists scurrying about in long white coats testing secret methods whose sole purpose is to change life on earth, to the local country dentist office on the corner of our hometown streets – those men and women we have known all our lives. The future waits for no one, and across our area resourceful folks are [...]

As we turn the page on the second decade of the 21st century, the country’s political climate has perhaps never been more volatile. The rise of social media and the ease of connectivity has transformed the public forum dramatically. Political discourse has become less a proactive discussion for the betterment of our quality of life, and more a series of encounter battles fought for the purpose of clearing the opponent’s opinion from the field. New York alone has found itself at times embroiled in a [...]

“Just go for it.” Those were the last thoughts I remember thinking before I rolled up and over a wooden ladder, and attempted to huck a 4-5’ drop on my mountain bike this past September. I’ve been mountain biking for over twenty years now with relatively few injuries, and although I usually draw the line at five foot jumps and drops, my bike handling skills are good enough to get me out of most jams. Not this time. My front wheel dropped out from under me, [...]

Woven into the tapestry of our lives is the culmination of all that we have experienced. From the fertile soil of our childhood, formative years where each moment has the capability of leaving an indelible impression, to our howling youth, where our sense of who we are within begins to breathe its first gasps of life. For most of us, assigning a temporality to the meaning of our lives has become a matter of course. For each passing phase we assume the previous has resolved [...]