Breast-Feeding Moms Find All They Need At The Upper Breast Side	Rakowski-Gallagher with her daughter

Felina Rakowski-Gallagher '85 was featured in a story about her new store, the Upper Breast Side, in the November 19, 2002 issue of NY1 News, "Breast-Feeding Moms Find All They Need At The Upper Breast Side." After the birth of her daughter three years ago, Rakowski-Gallagher came upon the idea of opening New York City's first breastfeeding boutique. Now in its newest location on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the Upper Breast Side caters to expectant and new moms. "Kudos to Dawn Flaumenhaft Williamson '84, MD, for guidance," writes Rakowski-Gallagher.

Check out Rakowski-Gallagher's store website at www.upperbreastside.com for more information.

Rubin doing a fake late-night monologue	The three hosts -- Rubin, Tavani and Miller -- at the "news" desk	The three hosts interviewing Spiderman before the movie's premiere

David Rubin '98 and the two friends with whom he's formed a comedy trio were featured in a front-page story in the New York Observer Nov. 25, 2002, "NBC's Top-Secret Show" by Jason Gay. The story details how Rubin and his friends (Andrew Tavani and Kevin Miller, who worked as tour guide pages at the NBC Studios in 30 Rockefeller Center) managed to host and tape their comedy show, "The Anti-Show," before a live audience in one of NBC's studios. They filmed the show five times over the course of a year, and broadcast it on Manhattan's public-access television station.

Find out more about the show at Rubin's website, http://www.rubinville.com. The video page contains a 10-minute trailer for the show.

In a Rolling Stone review of the band Sonic Youth's (hotlink: sonicyouth.com) new CD, Murray Street, guitarist Lee Ranaldo '78 was cited for his "singular, meditative tracks" that "often center SY albums." The CD is named for the street where Sonic Youth records -- also the site where a plane engine landed in September 2001. "Like everyone else, the group had to step up and help make the disaster livable," reads the July 2 review by Ann Powers. "Murray Street is that effort, fusing pop and noise because that's how life is now, equal parts ordinary and unknown." Rolling Stone also listed Murray Street as one of the top 50 albums of the year in a December 2002 issue.

Sonic Youth has been together for more than 20 years. They were the headline act for the nationwide Lollapalooza festival tour in 1995, and they have performed at Lincoln Center and at Avery Fisher Hall. In addition to his involvement with Sonic Youth, Ranaldo is known for his solo compositions and performances as well as for his collaborations with other musicians from the USA and abroad.

Visit Ranaldo's website at http://www.pinktoes.net to find out more about him and his music.

Shari Blecher '95, a partner in the Princeton law firm Lieberman and Blecher http://www.liebermanblecher.com/pages/717386/index.htm (a firm she co-founded at age 27), was named one of the Top 40 Lawyers to Watch in the State of New Jersey by the New Jersey Law Journal. Blecher, who received her JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in 1998, represents hundreds of plaintiffs in toxic tort litigation in New Jersey and New York. She works with neighborhood and community groups that have been impacted and injured as a result of contamination or toxic chemical exposure, and has successfully concluded numerous cases resulting in compensation for people who have been harmed by such substances and chemicals.

Blecher and her husband live in Princeton.

Tony Award-winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson '78 was featured in The Seattle Times when he opened his one-man-show, Lackawanna Blues, at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle in June. Lackawanna Blues was warmly received in its off-Broadway debut at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, and won an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination. Santiago-Hudson had an extensive tour planned for 2002, including performances in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Santiago-Hudson's show draws on his experiences growing up in the upstate, New York town of Lackawanna, and is a tribute to the woman who raised him, "Nanny" Crosby, who ran a boardinghouse in the town.

In addition, Santiago-Hudson has co-starred in the independent film, Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control, and is writing a new play -- this one with several characters. He and his wife, singer Jeannie Brittan, have 6-year-old twins.

Visit the Intiman Theatre's website at http://www.intiman.org/2002/lackawanna.htm for a special series of web pages about Santiago-Hudson and Lackawanna Blues.

Alumni, American Folklore Society honor Nicolaisen

Wilhelm Nicolaisen, Binghamton University distinguished professor emeritus of English and folklore, received the Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award from the American Folklore Society in October in Rochester, New York. The presenters were (from left) Michael McGoff '69, MA '72, PhD '80, vice provost, Binghamton University; Simon J. Bronner '74, distinguished professor of American Studies and Folklore, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg; Timothy Lloyd, executive director, American Folklore Society; and Cristina Bacchilega, MA '80, PhD '83, professor of English, University of Hawaii. McGoff, Bronner and Bacchilega, all former students of Nicolaisen's, nominated him for the award.