Amanda Rivkin

selected tearsheets: newspapers

Newspaper tearsheets from The Financial Times, Le Monde, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others.

THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)January: Rod Blagojevich in the governor's mansion in Springfield prepared his defense for Illinois legislators shortly before he an Elvis left the building. 12/87 (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"2009 - The Year in Pictures,"December 23, 2009.
   
LE MONDE (France)Le groupe francais M83 a beneficie du coup de coeur de Pitchfork. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Polaris pour Le Monde)"Pitchfork diapason 'indie rock', fait son festival," p. 14,July 21, 2009.
   
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)Residents of Gary placed flowers in front of his boyhood home at 2300 Jackson Street. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"Fans React to Jackson's Death,"June 25, 2009.
     
  
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)Connie Fuller, 39, took a picture of Curtis Harris, 50, and Daren Adkisson, 39, of Rock Island, Ill. after they picked up their marriage license at the Scott County Recorder's Office in Davenport, Iowa. County officials across Iowa began accepting marriage license applications from same-sex couples on Monday morning, making it the third state to allow such marriages. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"Pictures of the Day, April 27,"April 27, 2009
   
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)(Top down) Carol Mrowka went to court when Chicago deemed her East Village neighborhood a landmark. 'It's a nice neighborhood,' she said. 'But this is not a landmark.'; Some residents say the East Village is not as significant as other city landmark districts.; Preservationists worry how a ruling will affect Chicago landmarks like the Cultural Center, Wrigley Field and the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company building. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"In a City of Landmarks, a Court Case Alarms Preservationists," p. A 12,March 24, 2009.
   
THE WASHINGTON POST (USA)(Top left) Marion Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother (Credit: Pool photograph by Amanda Rivkin)"From Second City, An Extended First Family: Obama's Mother-in-Law, Other Chicagoans Bring Home to White House," p. A1February 1, 2009
     
  
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)(Above the fold) Rod R. Blagojevich readying for the address he gave Thursday before Illinois legislators voted to oust him as governor. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"Blagojevich Has His Final Say, Making Day of It," p. A1January 30, 2009.
   
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)(Top) On what turned out to be Rod R. Blagojevich's last dayas governor, he went through a range of moods, including gallows humor. (Center and bottom) After his defense to state senators, Mr. Blagojevich flew home to Chicago, but not until he had retrieved his hairbrushes from the restroom adjacent to his office in Springfield. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"Blagojevich Has His Say, Making a Day of It," p. A19January 30, 2009.
   
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)(Above the fold) Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois selected Roland W. Burris for the United States Senate. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"Defiant Governor Names Successor to Obama," p. A1December 31, 2008
     
  
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)(Top) Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois on Tuesday after his announcement that he had selected Roland W. Burris for a Senate Seat; (Below) Roland W. Burris. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"Governor Chooses Successor to Obama," and "Low-Key Groundbreaker: Roland W. Burris," p. A17December 31, 2008
   
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)(Top) Jeremiah Taylor, 3, and Daisha White, 4, at an Educare Center in Chicago. The center offers all-day care for children from 6 weeks to 5 years. (Lower) Keyoveun Williams, 3, at the center, which is financed by federal, state and local taxes and money from family foundations. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"Obama's $10 Billion Promise Stirs Hopes and Passion in Early Education," p. A26,December 17, 2008.
   
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)(Below the fold) With their father in the car, Sasha Obama, left, and Malia Obama arriving Thursday at school. (Credit: Pool photograph by Amanda Rivkin) "For Obama and Family, the Other Transition Is Strictly Personal," p. A1November 14, 2008.
     
  
NEW CITY CHICAGO (USA)Experimental Sound Studio's Sonic Railroad Rumbles Through Millennium Park (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for New City Chicago)Cover, "Mystery Train"November 6, 2008.
   
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)(Top) Percy Matthews, 25, of Chicago, has voted just once in his life, but said he was not certain for whom. This election is different. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)"Some Black Voters are Finding Politics is for Them, Too," p. A30.November 2, 2008.
   
LE MONDE (France)(Top) Un trader a la Bourse de Chicago, jeudi 18 septembre, apres l'annonce du plan de sauvetage. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Agence France Presse)Front page, "Un plan de sauvetage de geant pour les banques"September 20, 2008.
     
  
FINANCIAL TIMES (UK)In business: a trader on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as US stocks rebounded last week. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Agence France Presse - Getty Images)"Investors downbeat about equities," p. 3September 22, 2008.
   
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE (USA)(Top) The patio at O'Shaughnessy's Public House is a safe bet on a sunny day, or head inside for gorgeous dark wood and stained-glass accents, green drapes, TVs, great beers in the cooler and on draft (try the Strongbow cider), and friendly faces. (Lower) O'Shaughnessy's menu features dishes with Irish touches - boxty, or mussels in garlic and Guinness, for example.(Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The Chicago Tribune)"A pub with a neighborhood-clubhouse vibe,"At Play, Section 5A, p. 7,August 7, 2008.
   
GLENCOE NEWS (USA)Patti Vile, 65, and Rabbi Steven Lowenstein, "voluntourists" from the Am Shalom synagogue in Glencoe work on the new home of Aniece Gibbs, 89, in the Hollygrove section of New Orleans. Gibbs survived Hurricane Katrina when a neighbor rescued her and currently lives in a FEMA trailer equipped for the disabled while awaiting the completion of her home. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for Pioneer Press/Sun-Times News Group)"Voluntourists sign up for work in 'Big Easy,'"May 8, 2008.
     
  
GLENCOE NEWS(USA)Patti Vile, 65, of Glencoe, Ill. and Tron Lee, 23, of Destrahan, La. prune a bush earlier this spring outside the new home of Aniece Gibbs, 88, in the Hollygrove section of New Orleans, La. Vile organized a local group of "voluntourists" to visit and help restore New Orleans. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for Pioneer Press/Sun-Times News Group)"Voluntourists sign up for work in 'Big Easy,'"May 8, 2008
   
NEW CITY CHICAGO (USA)Shirley Mordine, Director of the Columbia Dance Center, in Chicago, Ill . on March 7, 2008. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for New City Chicago)Cover, "The Dean of Dance"March 13, 2008.
   
NEW CITY CHICAGO (USA)Shirley Mordine, Director of the Columbia Dance Center in Chicago, Ill. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for New City Chicago)"The Dean of Dance," p. 4.March 13, 2008.
     
  
THE FORWARD (USA)Two women walk beside the Mezquita in the heart of the old city in Cordoba, Spain (top); an Italian tourist prays inside the only remaining synagogue in Cordoba's Jewish quarter (lower left); the striped arches of the Mezquita are a reminder of the edifice's Muslim heritage. "Glimpses of Cordoba," p. B8Oct. 12, 2007.
   
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)The year 2000 was welcomed in celebrations both religious and wry (top right) in Ethiopia, where Orthodox Christians follow a calendar that differs from the Gregorian calendar by more than seven years. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)"Millennium Arrives Seven Years Late and Right on Time," p. A3September 12, 2007.
   
THE GUARDIAN (UK)Debre Birhan, Ethiopia : A woman rides her horse along a muddy trail. As urban Ethiopians prepare for the Coptic millennium celebrations on September 11, life in the countryside continues with little fanfare. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)"24 hours in pictures: September 4 2007"
     
  
USA TODAY (USA)An employee hangs up an Iberian ham leg in Manuel Maldonado's factory in Alburquerque, southwest Spain, Monday, Aug. 6, 2007. Maldonado is taking ham production to new heights, pampering his pigs with a free-range lifestyle and top-quality diet of acorns before slaughtering them, then curing the meat for two years — twice as long as competitors do. At $2,100 per leg, or $160 per pound, the ham is believed to be the most expensive in the world. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)"With $2,100 ham, Spain takes pork production to extremes," August 18, 2007.
   
THE YEMEN OBSERVER (Yemen)(Left to right, top to bottom) Men pray on the street at the Dawood Mosque in Brooklyn, one of the oldest mosques in New York City. Because of overcrowding at the small, apartment-sized mosque, many of the men must pray on the street outside the mosque on Fridays; Mohammed Hayel, a maintenance technician and oud player, has lunch with his son at the Yemen Luncheonette in Brooklyn after Friday prayers; Akram Hatem, 28, and Mahmood Alsubai, 23, serve up traditional Yemeni food at the Yemen Cafe in Brooklyn; A taste of home; The site of the first Arabic language public school, the Khalil Gibran School, opening this September. Dhaba Almontaser, a Yemeni-American, will be the school's first principal; The Sanaa Restaurant and a popular Lebanese marketplace, Sahadi's, are neighbors on a stretch of Atlantic Avenue near the Brooklyn waterfront. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The Yemen Observer)"New York's Yemenis: Forging a Home Away from Home," p. 4May 29, 2007.
   
THE YEMEN OBSERVER (Yemen)(Top to bottom; left to right) The "zaffah" for a Yemeni-American groom at an Islamic wedding hall in Brooklyn; Wedding guests included several generations of immigrants and their children; A Yemeni-American groom sits by himself at the head table at the Islamic wedding hall; A man smoking a cigarette by the dance floor in the men's section of the wedding hall; Mohammed Hayel, a Yemeni wedding singer and oud player, keeps the dancers moving; Hayel tests his microphone; A boy snacks on hummus and potato chips during the festivities; Only small children move between the men's and women's section at the Widdi Islamic Wedding Hall in Brooklyn; Hayel's song book of Yemeni music is written and pasted into an old calendar from 1978; Men dancing together at a Yemeni wedding; Wedding guests follow the groom into the hall during the 'zaffah'; Young boys played soccer with an empty plastic bottle outside an Islamic wedding hall; The remains of the day - qat is illegal in the U.S., yet available among Yemenis.(Credit: Amanda Rivkin)"New York's Yemenis: Forging a Home Away from Home," p. 4May 29, 2007.