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Syracuse Jazz Fest Founder Frank Malfitano s latest project is the Downtown Murals Project. Hear him describe the figures depicted on the first work of art. He also tells WAER s Chris Bolt more about the project and its goals.
What if you were walking or driving downtown and were greeted by huge artwork on buildings with notable figures from sports, music, social change? That’s exactly what Frank Malfitano was after when he saw other civic murals.
“I saw them in New York, I saw them in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and I was really impressed. It’s really the contemporary art form of the 21st century. And I thought, ‘wow, these are great. Why can’t we do that in Syracuse?’”
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The image of Bernie Sanders sitting cross-legged in mittens launched a thousand internet memes
The inauguration day photograph of a mitten-clad, glamour-defying Bernie Sanders perhaps was not the most flattering image of the US senator, but it has become a remarkably charitable one.
The image launched a thousand memes and made the earnest two-time presidential candidate an internet star.
The 79-year-old politician from the north-eastern US state of Vermont announced this week that he has raised $1.8m (€1.5m) for charity over the past five days through sales of merchandise featuring him wearing the knitted mittens and a parka at US President Joe Biden s 20 January swearing-in.