When Lea Goldman ’98 joined Marie Claire in 2008, there seemed to be a running cliché in women’s magazines: a credit card frozen in a block of ice. The symbolism was used in advice columns and articles, and sometimes in illustrations for those columns and articles. It spoke to the narrow and increasingly outdated notion that women couldn’t make their own decisions, financial or otherwise — a concept proven wrong not only by the women reading the magazines but also by Goldman herself.

CNN anchor and correspondent Poppy Harlow is driven by the search for truth.

What would you do if you weren't afraid? It's the question Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and writer Nell Scovell ask in the first chapter of their book, Lean In, which was published three years ago today. While some remain skeptical of the book's idealism, for many women, it provided the last bit of confidence needed to fulfill their dream of running for office.

Appearing at a Staten Island Yankees game this summer, "Game of Thrones" mastermind George R.R. Martin talks how his stories go further than his peer, J.R.R. Tolkien

As the education news network Chalkbeat looks to expand, it faces the challenge of extending its reach beyond ed-world insiders—while also serving a niche community that can be sharply divided over the very issues it covers.

Cara, a half-Latina with brown eyes and long blond hair, is an entrepreneur, always coming up with new company ideas. She's crafty, curious, opinionated and sharp. She does not have a hairbrush that matches her shoes, nor a bright pink Jeep. And that tea party will just have to go on without her.

Schools across the county are rushing to put more technology in the hands of their students, a move fueled in part by new state standards and an increasing expectation that these students will compete in an increasingly digitized workforce after they graduate. “Common Core just brings it all together,” Martinez said.

Staten Island is the only borough in the city experiencing a decline in its creative workforce, a new study has found. Even though the number of cultural nonprofits here has doubled over the past decade, the borough is still relatively inhospitable when it comes to the 2,694 artists, designers and other creative professionals who work here, the Center for an Urban Future suggests.

From its Grymes Hill driveway, the headquarters of Casa Belvedere Italian Cultural Center boasts villa-like landscaping, a towering facade and astounding harbor views. But on a visit this past winter, the mansion's interior was not as pristine, at least not yet. The structure's walls on its upper level and basement were gutted and barren.

"I'm so nervous I could throw up and pass out," a fourth-grader at P.S. 57 tells a classmate as the two walk toward their school's auditorium. The students were on their way to the Write-a-Play Festival at the school in the Park Hill section of Clifton, comprised almost entirely of plays they wrote and will perform before their parents in a matter of minutes — a fact none of them takes lightly.

It was not quiet on the set of "Ferry Play" when the show began. Dozens of tourists pushed to find their places, positioning their cell phones and cameras to the front, yelling at one another in different languages to come closer, stepping on toes and uttering insincere apologies. The set was the Staten Island Ferry and I was listening through my earphones.

Before he even takes the stage, the crowd goes wild for Airistotle. Shielding his eyes from the spotlights, the boyish 26-year-old entertainer looks out onto his audience, a "wow" taking shape across his mouth. A young lady in the front row screams her intentions to be the mother of his child. Another man demands he remove his top.

It’s hard to imagine a bigger undertaking than killing Hitler. But Quentin Tarantino insists upon it. “'Django Unchained' and 'Kill Bill' were my two biggest adventures,” Director Tarantino said at Comic-Con Saturday morning. “And we’re not even done shooting Django.”. The bounty-hunting plantation-destructing blast of revenge has been a seed growing in Tarantino’s mind for 13 years now.

Vince Gilligan, the brain behind AMC’s Breaking Bad, asked a packed auditorium at Friday night’s Comic-Con panel if they thought his main character Walter White was as bad as he was going to get. Walter, played by Bryan Cranston, will walk into the fifth and final season of Breaking Bad this Sunday after making a complete transformation from benign chemistry teacher to ruthless methamphetamine cook.

In a world where asking a date to prom has become more romantic than asking for a partner’s hand in marriage, one group of high school boys has gone the opposite direction. For years, junior and senior boys at Corona del Mar High School have selected their dates for the formal dance through an NFL-style “Prom Draft.”.

Newport-Mesa Unified officials are taking another look at restorative justice – the little understood style of discipline that emphasizes interventions over suspensions – in the wake of the cheating scandal that embroiled 11 students at Corona del Mar High School. Though restorative justice approaches have been credited with reducing drop-out rates and chronic truancy in other school districts around the country, the new philosophy took a beating in the months following the news that it was being used in disciplining the students implicated in the scheme.