When photographer Josh Dick embarked on an independent trip to document the development of medical schools in Burma's Karen state, he half-expected a primitive, makeshift operation.

Instead, what he found was a highly organized and well-run school system equipped with classrooms, a qualified teaching staff led by internationally and locally...

It's no secret that the New York City's restaurant industry is a veritable old boys' club, bubbling over disproportionately with moneyed male entrepreneurs. Despite male-owned small businesses outnumbering female-owned small businesses almost 2 to 1, a figure especially magnified in the restaurant sector, a handful of enterprising New...

Though New York City has always been a place of fearless eaters (street meat, anyone?), the latest trend to hit the mainstream culinary scene has even some of the strongest of stomachs feeling a little squeamish.

With options ranging from Sip Sak's poached calf's brain to Taqueria Puebla's wildly popular...

One Bed-Stuy man is responsible for putting over 500 Brooklyn teens out on the streets, but not in the way you might be thinking.

Barnabas Shakur, 31, has been a resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood for over 20 years, and has witnessed firsthand its slow but steady progression from a...