Clips of the Week

Many of the internships are wrapping up, but the clips just keep coming. Here’s a sampling of the latest:

• I can guarantee that not one word of Henry Stewart’s review of “Henry Poole is Here” will be used as a blurb in any future advertisements. Check out his very entertaining piece in the L Magazine. He also said a lot in very few words in this blog item — sounds like a full-blown story waiting to happen.
• Linnea Covington, writing for New York Press, offers a short, but image- and information-packed review for the enticingly titled play, “Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell.”
  
• Jessica Firger found a hipster friendly doctor in Williamsburg who offers E-mail, video and IM consultations — but will occasionally make an old-fashioned house call. You’ll find her story in The Brooklyn Paper.
• Shuka Kalantari hosted the latest edition ofKPFA Radio’s “Voices of the Middle East and North Africa,” and contributed a segment about the late Palestinian poetMahmoud Darwish. She also started a companion blogf or the show.
• Dan Macht put together a piece about McCain’s and Obama’s reactions to the Russia-Georgia conflict for the Telegraph.co.uk
  
• Francesca Levy wrote about the world of for-profit universities owned by publicly held corporations for BusinessWeek. Check out her video interview with the new dean of the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland
• Barry Paddock contributed to today’s Daily News front page story about heroism amid tragedy in Queens.
• Damian Ghigliotty reports for Crain’s New York Business that unemployment in the city is down – even as unemployment claims are up.
• Meanwhile, in a glimmer of sunny economic news, the hotel business on Long Island is doing well, Danny Teigman found for Newsday.
• Mathew Warren contributed to this New York Times talker about MetroCard ethics (which may be an oxymoron these days.)

Congrats to all — and keep ‘em coming. (But make sure to enjoy what’s of summer, too).

Some more great news this week: The NYCity News Service took Best News Site honors at the first annual eduStyle Awards ceremony. The recognition is particularly gratifying because we didn’t enter this contest — they found us. We also beat out some quality competition: Virginia Tech and Boston University were the other finalists.

The award is another tribute to your fine work. Here are some of the latest examples:

• Claudia Cruz traveled to the Dominican town of Sánchez where she found that the government has yet to provide promised new housing for many folks who lost their homes to devastating landslides.

• Matt Townsend reports on a ban on voter registration drives at VA facilities for Pro Publica.

• WARNING: This video contains footage of people eating live octopus. If you’re brave enough, check out this unforgettable food piece Fritzie Andrade helped produce for nytimes.com.

• Allison Esposito has been working with young journalists from Children’s Press Line. She helped shape this story about a Little League for children with autism. The article made the Daily News.

• Some Queens homeowners may lose part of their backyards to a city-owned nature trail, Barry Paddock reports for the Daily News.

• Danny Teigman, reporting for Newsday, talked to Long Island golfers about Greg Norman’s flirtation with history.

• The Real World is coming to Red Hook, Jessica Firger reports for The Brooklyn Paper.

• Speaking of reality TV, Craig Thompson talked to some participants in the controversial new show The Baby Borrowers for this babble.com piece.

• Elephants let their feet do the talking, Shuka Kalantari reports for Quest, a mutli-media science site put together by Northern California Public TV and Radio station KQED. Shuka also has been working for KPFA radio. She did a segment for Voices of the Middle East and North African about a photo exhibit called, “Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women.”

• Clark Merrefield reports on a deal to preserve a 582-acre ranch in this Point Reyes Light article.

• Think New York rents are bad? Check out Carl Winfield’s businessweek.com slide show about the world’s most expensive cities.

• Damian Ghigliotty shows the value of follow up in this Crain’s New York Business article about the debut of a new law requiring owners of large stores to provide a recycling bin for plastic bags.

• Linnea Covington wrote about a band that’s bringing the Balkans to Brooklyn. Check out her profile of Slavic Soul Party in New York Press.

• Dan Macht assembled a slide show for the telegraph.co.uk showing a recreation of the Battle of Waterloo. He also did some rewrite on a story about a battle of another sort: Madonna’s alleged marital woes.

• In our alumni corner, Sebastian Bednarski produce a video for the nypost.com about well-traveled soccer superstar David Beckham.

While others are filing tax returns, the Class of ‘08 is filing stories. Here are some of the latest:

• Rebecca Harshbarger’s story about how the weak dollar is hurting local immigrants who send much-needed money to their loved ones back home made City Limits.
• Francesca Levy’s piece about a unique anti-domestic violence program was featured in Women’s eNews.
• “Busy” Barry Paddock’s learned that sometimes the picture is as important – if not more important – than the words. He not only scored some strong interviews for a story about a teen stabbed in school, he was the only reporter to come away with the all-important photo of the victim. Check out his work in the Daily News.
• Erin O’Neill’s story about a bitter nursing home strike in the Bronx, where strikers created a “wanted poster” of pictures they snapped of replacement workers, was published in The Riverdale Press.
• Matt Townsend’s article about a controversial rezoning plan that could bring big buildings to Chinatown found a home in The Villager.
• Well, the Mets aren’t exactly smokin’ these days – and neither are their fans. Matt and Damian Ghigliotty teamed on a piece about how some tobacco-happy Mets fans are fuming over the enforcement of the smoking ban at Shea Stadium. You’ll find their story in the New York Observer.
• In our alumni corner, Kate Pastor’s been busy for City Limits, writing a piece on how a rezoning plan could change 125th St. and a story about man who was evicted from his Harlem home – and caught in a legal morass.

• Damian Ghigliotty and Joe Hirsch contributed to the Queens Courier’s ongoing series about immigrant day laborers: Damian tells the inside story of clubs where men who left loved ones at home go after work and pay $2 a dance to wile away the loneliness. Joe profiled a 50-something laborer who is ready to return to his family in Mexico after a disappointing 12-year stint in the U.S.
  Damian also wrote a piece about voter apathy for the paper.
• Loren Bonner reported that Bay Ridge’s Victory Memorial Hospital appears on its deathbed in this story for The Brooklyn Paper.
• Matt Townsend chronicled the unlikely alliance between bike polo players and Lower East Side kids to stop a dogrun from opening in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Check out his piece in The Villager.
• Francesca Levy also made The Villager with this look at what little kids’ Halloween costumes say about their parents.
• Dmitry Kiper profiled Gogol Bordello “gypsy-punk” violinist Sergey Ryabtsev for the latest Brooklyn Rail.
• Marlene Peralta covered the arrest of a suspect in an Upper East Side jewelry store slaying that grabbed headlines in this Newsday story.
• Danny Massey also made Newsday with this Day 2 story about the Broadway strike.
• Andrew Hawkins is the hardest working man in City Hall. Here are just a couple of his stories: One about how some pols are riding Mayor Bloomberg’s financial coattails and this piece about effort to get the city to help veterans.
• Mariel DiSibio and Georgia Kral were busy at the New York Times. Mariel wrote about the increase in cats flooding pet shelters in Yonkers and beyond.
• Georgia reported on how a Westport school has learned what a drag it is getting mold.
• This week’s podcast was sounds as a dollar, er, euro. The sad state of the dollar and its effect on New York was the topic of the show, which featured reports by Vinita Singla and Sebastian Bednarski, who also produced the podcast. Check it out on the News Service site.
• Speaking of the News Service, Joseph Gargiulo scored our first Staten Island story: a piece about a new city bus route connecting Staten Island to Bayonne.
• Claudia Cruz had a front page piece for the Manhattan Times on anger at P.S. 314 over the Dept. of Ed’s new school rating system.

• This week’s NYPulse podcast tackles a disturbing rise in hate crime. Chika Osaka produced the show and contributed a report. Jego Armstrong and Djenny Passe-Rodriguez also reported pieces. Check out the NYPulse on the News Service.
• AnnMarie Costella found a great story pounding her Maspeth beat: anger over plans to put a 27-foot-plus cell phone tower — disguised as a flagpole — atop a residential building. AnnMarie did some digging and learned that in Arizona, cell companies have been know to try to disguise the towers as cacti! Her piece made the Queens Courier.
• Damian Ghigliotty joined AnnMarie in the pages of The Courier with his contribution to an ongoing four-part series about day laborers.
• Erin O’Neill proved a double threat for the Greenpoint Star with her stories on an unsolved murder and the latest community v. developer clash over plans for the old Dominos Sugar refinery.
• Vinita Singla also covered the Dominos controversy in a follow-up story for Brooklyn’s Courier Life papers.
• Tanzina Vega scored a solo byline in the Times with her first contribution to the Neediest Cases series.
• Georgia Kral notched a solo byline of her own in this Times piece about a push in New Haven to put a time limit on public makeshift memorials for crime victims.
• Dan Rivoli contributed to this Daily News story about the tragic death of marathoner Ryan Shay.
• Laura Silver earned a full-page treatment in the Daily News for her profile of an inspiring young woman from Kosovo who’s making her mark in New York and beyond.
• Mariel DiSibio interviewed filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach for Independent magazine.
• Danny Massey got local reaction to the Pakistani crisis in a Newsday article. He also wrote about a would-be robber who messed with the wrong bodega owner and got caught, well, red handed.