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1 month ago | 
europe.stripes.com | Rachel Smith |Kat Nickola
“Mean Girls Jr.” at Bavaria Performing Arts () When homeschooler Cady Herron (Emmalyn Taylor) starts at a public school for the first time in her life, she discovers the most popular girls and paves her way to become one of them. This fun, fast-paced musical at Bavaria Performing Arts is directed by Rachel Harper and features an all-youth cast tackling the bullies of today.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
amsterdamnews.com | Rachel Smith |Jonathan Custodio |Gwynne Hogan
Headed into Election Day, a near record number of New Yorkers have already voted early. According to the city Board of Elections’ unofficial tally, 1,089,328 voters cast ballots in the early voting period, which ran from Oct. 26 through Nov. 3. That’s just shy of the 1.1 million early voters that turned out in 2020, the first presidential election in which early voting was allowed in New York.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
europe.stripes.com | Rachel Smith |Kat Nickola
“First Date” at Bavaria Performing Arts, Grafenwöhr (Sgt. Austin Robertson) The trials of modern dating are displayed in all of their messy glory in the Bavaria Performing Arts performance of “First Date.” This romantic comedy brings together an unlikely couple on a blind date, complete with their entourage of inner critics.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
qchron.com | Melanie Marich |Rachel Smith
This article was originally published on August 5 at 4:59 a.m. EDT by THE CITYOwning a home in this city is a serious achievement and a valuable asset often built up over years. But losing control of it can happen in a New York minute. Over the last few years, THE CITY has reported extensively on cases of deed theft and scams — unscrupulous moves where people use fraud, forgery and other unlawful methods to take possession of a home, often without the true owner even knowing.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
qchron.com | Melanie Marich |Rachel Smith
This article was originally published on August 5 at 4:59 a.m. EDT by THE CITYOwning a home in this city is a serious achievement and a valuable asset often built up over years. But losing control of it can happen in a New York minute. Over the last few years, THE CITY has reported extensively on cases of deed theft and scams — unscrupulous moves where people use fraud, forgery and other unlawful methods to take possession of a home, often without the true owner even knowing.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
animalfreescienceadvocacy.org.au | Rachel Smith
Unbeknown to many, halfway down Churchill’s quiet tree-lined Lawless Road, there is a large primate breeding and research facility. To all, apart from those who work there, it is largely a mystery. The facility’s location is not readily made public. The gates are high – perhaps to keep people out or perhaps to keep the monkeys in. Primate breeding establishments and facilities are rare in Australia.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | Jon King |Rachel Smith
A Christmas tree in a Lancashire seaside town has been branded an "embarrassment" with locals decorating it themselves to brighten it up. Some residents were disappointed when the eight-foot-tall fir tree was put up outside the Arndale Shopping Centre in Morecambe by a business group. The tree was dismissed as "dismal", "depressing" and an "embarrassment" with some taking it upon themselves to add tinsel and a few baubles, according to Lancashire Live.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
westsiderag.com | Rachel Smith |Gabriel Poblete
This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. By Rachel Holliday Smith, and Gabriel Poblete, THE CITYWeed has been legal in New York since 2021, but the state is still working out regulating, licensing, and taxing it differently than any other place — and the new system is still budding. As THE CITY has reported, the licensing of retail dispensaries has been rocky and slow.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
thejewishvoice.com | Sholom Schreirber |Sam Rabiyah |Rachel Smith
Property owners argued that 2019 reforms violated their rights and is “destroying” housing. Yet profits are still plentiful. By: Sam Rabiyah & Rachel Holliday SmithThe Supreme Court has rebuffed a major legal challenge to New York’s rent stabilization law, spelling relief for tenants and putting a damper on landlords’ hopes of gaining control to set the price of housing.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
amsterdamnews.com | Rachel Smith
This article was originally published on Sep 21 5:00am EDT by THE CITYA Walgreens pharmacy advertises COVID shots, Sept. 20, 2023. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY‘Tis the season for a new COVID vaccine. If it’s been more than two months since you got any previous COVID shot and if you’re at least five years old, it’s time to make an appointment for the newest jab. That brand-new shot is a monovalent vaccine approved by the Federal Drug Administration in early September. But don’t call it a booster.
