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On the Street and in the Studio with LNY
Layqa Nuna Yawar
is an artist based in Newark, NJ, known internationally for his large-scale, community-based murals. His work often centers the complex narratives of BIPOC communities throughout the world. We recently visited Layqua in his studio to hear the tale of this multidisciplinary storyteller.
Tell me about the beginnings of your relationship with visual art and your journey as an artist.
I was born in Equador, and immigrated to the United States when I was 14. In high school, I was always drawing, but I planned to study psychology. Then, I took an art class my senior year, and realized this was something I could do.
Updated: 25 Feb 2021, 4:47
A CORRECTIONS officer is accused of murdering his girlfriend and her best pal after the women went on a Valentine s Day vacation, authorities allege.
John Menendez, 23, a Hudson County corrections officer from West New York, was charged with the murders of Anna Shpilberg, 40, and Luiza Shinkarevskaya, 40, in Newark, New Jersey.
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John MenendezCredit: Essex County Jail
“I killed both of them - just arrest me, bro,” Menendez, 23, told cops, according to court papers.
Cops first found Shinkarevskaya dead from a bullet to her head on a sidewalk at a Jiffy’s parking lot on Tuesday, February 16.
Shpilberg was later found shot in the passenger seat of her vehicle that same night near Edison Place and Bruen Street in Newark.
N.J. corrections officer obsessed over girlfriend’s Valentine’s Day getaway to Cancun before double killing, family says
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Luiza Shinkarevskaya, left, with John Menendez and Anna Shpilberg at a party on Nov. 15, 2020. Menendez has been charged with killing the women.Photo courtesy of Mishel Chan-Min
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It was supposed to be a much-needed break from the year of COVID-19 restrictions for Anna Shpilberg and her four friends. She threw together the trip to Cancun, Mexico with less than a month of planning and they found themselves basking in the warm sunshine over Valentine’s Day weekend.
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