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The Scooter Speaks

“What’s wrong?”

The train conductor had his face right up next to mine. I was sitting down, and he was leaning over, hands on his knees.

“Nothing,” I sniffled.

by Shannon Osaka on February 21, 2015February 22, 2015

A Taste for Iron & Wine

When Samuel Beam, better known by his stage name Iron & Wine, sidled his way onto the Peter J. Sharp stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the crowd of New Yorkers in the auditorium took in a collective breath and began to applaud.

by Shannon Osaka on October 3, 2014October 5, 2014


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