Year: 2025

Karen Rempel visits the former home of influential street photographer Helen Levitt

Leave It to Levitt

Who was the most influential street photographer you never heard of? In honor of Women’s History month, I set out to answer this question and discovered the wondrous, reverent world of Helen Levitt (1913-2009). Since she was still active into the 2000s, you may have seen Helen out and about on the streets of New […]

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Karen Rempel embodying Mad Men's Joan Holloway at the Time-Life Building

Mad for Mad Men

The acclaimed TV drama Mad Men depicts the lives of advertising folk on Madison Avenue in New York in the swinging sixties. The show, which aired from 2007 to 2015, begins at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue. When a merger results in the new firm of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (later […]

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Fighting to Vote

I have exciting news! I recently passed the Naturalization Test for U.S. Citizenship! I will be honored to swear allegiance to the United States of America and the U.S. flag on January 31. As I consider this country’s continuous striving towards the goals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all, and I […]

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