BY ELAINE KLAASSEN St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church— on Franklin Avenue in Prospect Park—welcomes parishioners, friends and neighbors to walk the labyrinth in their sanctuary twice a year—during Advent and Lent. If you’ve never heard of labyrinth prayer or labyrinth meditation you might be confused by what those steeped in…
BY KARI ANDRADE More than 40 years before Will Smith’s son shocked the fashion world by modeling women’s wear for a Louis Vitton, there was Ziggy Stardust and David Bowie. Jaden Smith has been called the “gender queer fashion icon of 2016” by pride.com. Did David Bowie, a perennial fashion, music and art…
In the absence of any communication from Senator Hayden regarding supportive strategies for new arrivals in our subsidized senior citizen highrise, we are now told that a 10th of our units are newly reserved for individuals coming out of the homeless shelters around town, and we are discovering, not surprisingly,…
Editor’s note: It is disgraceful that a city that can afford to subsidize billionaire sports promoters (half a billion for a baseball stadium; $155 million for renovating a basketball arena; almost a billion for the city share of the new Vikings stadium over 30 years) can’t afford to house homeless…
Southside Pride asked all the candidates we knew about who were running in legislative districts 60B, 61 and 62 how they stood on issues. We received responses from Susan Allen (SA), incumbent representative from 62B; Ilhan Omar (IO), candidate for State Legislature 60B; Captain Jack Sparrow (CJS), candidate for State…
BY ED FELIEN On Sunday, Jan. 3, around 6 p.m., 61-year-old Daniel Wiese, a resident at the nearby Dungarvin Group Home’s Hiawatha Campus, was hit and killed by a northbound train at the 32nd Street intersection while trying to cross the tracks in his electric wheelchair. Other disabled residents have…
