HHPLIFT's 1 eleven® employment program HHPLIFT’s experience at this month’s NY NOW home/lifestyle/handmade/gift market trade show’s Winter 2021 Digital Market Week was especially memorable. Not only did it successfully introduce its new ecoLIFT TM line of vegan felt and paper leather goods, but it won the NY NOW Diversity Advocate Award, which reflects the NY NOW principles of diverse creation, thought and design in honoring a company that has demonstrated commitment to advan

Performance from a tribute honoring Johnny Pacheco. “To quote the late, great Juan Flores, Johnny Pacheco was perhaps New York Latin music's first rock star in the modern sense of the word,” says New York musician/educator Dawn Drake in assessing the significance of Pacheco, the Dominican-American musician/arranger/composer/bandleader/record producer and legendary salsa label Fania Records co-founder, who died Feb. 15 at 85. Flores was professor of social and cultural analysi

Parachutin' D.B. Cooper He’s been missing since the afternoon of November 24, 1971—Thanksgiving Eve--when he hijacked a Boeing 727 somewhere between Portland and Seattle. Then, with $200,000 in ransom demanded in exchange for freeing his fellow passengers in Seattle, he ordered the plane to fly to Mexico City, and just after 8 p.m. and somewhere between Seattle and Reno, jumped out of the plane and into legend. D.B. Cooper, as the unidentified hijacker became known (he bought

Love Bubby's Love & Kindness collection As ever, vendors at New York’s biannual NY NOW specialty marketing trade show--which took place last week digitally due to the pandemic—exhibited their latest wares to prospective buyers. But it’s likely that no product came down as close to the wire as Love Bubby’s new Love & Kindness collection of “statement” t-shirts for toddlers. “We just launched them last week!” said Love Bubby owner/designer Jaime Windau of the new collection, wh