Month: October 2013

Hoboken native Kyla Garcia wins acting competition in Hollywood named after casting director Twinkie Byrd

10 years ago

Hoboken native and actress Kyla Garcia took a leap of faith when she packed up and moved to California in July 2011. Earlier this month, her dreams of finding fame…

Interview: Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave

Film

10 years ago

The life of Solomon Northup—the free, black, middle-class, violin-playing New Yorker who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841—lives on in his memoir, 12 Years a Slave, one of the…

Developers are becoming jacks of all trades

Tech

10 years ago

Just like it’s no big secret that there’s money to be made as a computer engineer, the same applies to teaching technical skills. As people flock to take introductory coding…

Monsieur is a robot bartender and your new best friend

Gadgets

10 years ago

We recently sat down with Monsieur, a robotic bartender that learns what you like, and its creators for a drink and a chat. The box-shaped Monsieur doesn’t actually have any…