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The FDNY held a graduation ceremony in Brooklyn for nearly 150 probationary EMTs marking their training completion.

Save this story for later. “Fearless, fierce, and radiant,” says Stella Banderas of her mother, actress Melanie Griffith. The young perfumer lapses into metaphor and the language of her day job to describe her mother’s indomitable spirit, referring to Griffith’s warmth as being reminiscent of spiced vanilla. Banderas’s poetic assessment is a natural byproduct of her broad, mixed media approach to creativity, a mindset that she attributes to her mother’s reinforcement. “She’s tau...