I was at work when I had a realization. It was early August and I had just started my job working in the film industry. My life was good: college was done, I was making money, my cats were plump…
“For me it begins with a scene, and I don’t know what it means. I get a vision, and then I start moving around on it and it grows in all directions,” Professor Charles Haddad said while he sat in…
Tom Catt looks different during the day, but at night, when he slips on his size 13 women’s heels, corset and a dress, he becomes royalty. He becomes a drag queen. If you see him during the day as regular…
Lyvette De Jesus Cruz is only 19-years-old. She’s tall, has curly dark hair and wears glasses that sit perfectly on her face. She has a big smile that she wears often and is known throughout the Stony Brook University Music…
Two shops down from the Starbucks coffee house at 23 N Main Street in Sayville, NY, a boutique stands right next to an old barbershop. The two displays on both sides of its windows are updated at the beginning of…
At 22 years old, Laurence Vesyoly graduated from college with a degree. On the small piece of paper it said he spent his four years at Stony Brook University studying music and engineering. He was one of dozens upon dozens…
The Stony Brook University music department is a globally known place that keeps on growing. Among its huge variety in different types of music learned and performed are the strings – including two different orchestras – which students are able…
She smiles as she walks around the mall in her sparkly, fitted gown. Her white braid falls down to her navel, and she adjusts the silver-sequined snowflakes pinned into her wig. She’s sweating but she’s smiling as people stop to…
In late August, a former shipping container made its way onto campus. Inside the green and white vehicle were rows upon rows of tiny circles, some filled with what looks like dirt and some growing little buds of green matter.…