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The Azzaros opened their studio/gallery, Chin-Azzaro, at 9 S. Washington St. around two years ago. Prior to moving to Ypsilanti, Yen Azzaro worked as an art dealer specializing in American impressionism, and curated at Chicago's Madron Gallery.
The business has evolved over the last two years to focus on Ypsilanti's kids.
"We want to expose kids with photography to something creative that they might not have otherwise considered," Nick Azzaro said. "I don't know what it will lead to ... but I do know what will happen if we don't offer opportunities, which is the same thing that has already happened."
Find more Ypsilanti stories here.
CNN's John King looks back at Sunday's talk shows and what will make news in the coming week.
(CNN) -- President Obama was aboard Air Force One over the Atlantic as this past Sunday's spinning, sparring and explaining played out. He has an increasingly ambitious overseas agenda at a telling time for his already crowded domestic portfolio.
At first glance, it's hard to be very optimistic about the prospects of getting Israel and the Palestinians back to the table, let alone back to the difficult choices of peacemaking. Yet the president, fresh from his outreach to the Muslim world, sounds remarkably upbeat. He is sending his special envoy, former Sen. Ge...
• Whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to come Obama's way.
• Whether Hamas and Hezbollah choose, as they often have in the past, to make themselves heard just when things get to a key juncture.
• A critical period for his push to get health-care reform this year.
• A rising unemployment rate that sobers the growing chorus of voices suggesting the worst of the recession is over.
• And the still evolving confirmation process for Supreme Court pick Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
"We want to get them back talking to each other. I think there is a recognition, a broad recognition in the region, that there needs to be progress. One of the great heartening things about the president's speech in Cairo is the enormously positive reaction it generated across the region and around the world and from b...
King: "...many Israelis are asking that you should know that Netanyahu's government in Israel is so fragile that if he ... stopped the settlements now, his government might collapse. And so they ask the question, why do you keep pushing?"
"We have to be willing to sit and listen and evaluate without giving up what we view as a primary objective of the engagement, which is to do everything we can to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapon state. I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind that, were Israel to suffer a nuclear attack by Iran, th...
Stephanopolous: "Several senators wrote the president a letter just the other day saying that North Korea should go back on the list of states who sponsor terrorism. Will you do that?
Clinton: "Well, we're going to look at it. There's a process for it... you know, we take it very seriously. I mean, obviously, they were taken off of the list for a purpose, and that purpose is being thwarted by their actions."
"I don't think there's any question it's going to be a rough patch, not just in the immediate term, but for a little bit of time, because you've got to turn the economy around, and jobs and job growth tend to come after you turn the economy around, so it's likely going to be a little higher." -- Austan Goolsbee, White ...
"Somebody had to do something. ... This isn't just about the auto industry. The credit market has dried up. We got a housing industry in crisis. And certainly the federal government had to do something here. I think from our point of view, we're just glad somebody is listening." -- Mayor Michael Brown of Flint, Michiga...
Can Obama jump start auto industry?
"I know people don't want to see the government involved and you get that dumb argument down there in Washington about the conservatives and the liberals and all that. Who needs it? We need the country working together on our problems. ... I'm not condemning the government. They didn't create the problem." --Mayor Jame...
"One, we don't know how much it's going to cost and who's going to pay for it. Secondly, it will be the first steps in destroying the best health-care system the world has ever known." -- Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, on "Fox News Sunday"
"You won't fundamentally solve the problems in business until you solve the problems of spiraling health-care costs. Which is driving everybody crazy." -- Google CEO Eric Schmidt on "Fox News Sunday"
"The Barack Obama experiment is beginning to scare people ... when we're talking about 17 percent of our gross national product on health care, that's what we spend. But, if that Barack Obama experiment with our health care, if that doesn't work, we're also talking about human lives. We're also talking about the qualit...
One year ago this past Sunday, Sen. Hillary Clinton officially abandoned her hard-fought campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. On "This Week," George Stephanopolous asked her to reflect on the past year.
Stephanopolous: "The Economist magazine said this week that the question you raised in that famous 3 a.m. ad...'It's 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?' ... is right back in the center of American politics. Has the president answered it for you?"
King: "I want to close our conversation by asking you to take us inside the great pyramids of Egypt. The president is on a tour of the great pyramids. He is dressed casually and something on the wall catches his attention. He is shown it by the guide and he is noting the big ears and he calls over David Axelrod and Rah...
David Axelrod: "Right. He said, 'who does that look like?' He said, 'it's me'. And I have to confess that the ears were a giveaway. It really did look like him. I was wondering whether someone chiseled that in there in honor of our visit, but apparently this was done some thousands of years ago. So kind of interesting....
This image released by Neon/CNN Films shows Buzz Aldrin in a scene from the film "Apollo 11."
One of filmmaking's cheapest tricks is on-screen applause — where characters clap to cue the movie's viewers that they should also be impressed. There's a lot of that in "Apollo 11," but it's not cheap. In this documentary about the people who pulled off the spectacular feat of sending Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin and ...
NASA 's first lunar landing is not exactly an obscure event. And "Apollo 11" doesn't profess to offer new information or insights. What it does offer is a wealth of fresh images and sound, assembled into an immersive IMAX journey by director and editor Todd Douglas Miller. It's a more visceral trip than any moviegoer —...
It was inevitable that some movie about the first moon landing would be released in 2019, the 50th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin's stroll on the lunar surface. But Miller's documentary still packs surprises, because in the buildup to that anniversary, a momentous discovery was made at the National Archives: a hoa...
In "Apollo 11," Miller combines the newly excavated footage with some that's been seen before, but only in a cropped, 35mm format. Some of the found film is not as crisp as contemporary digital imagery, but it has an immediacy that today's CGI-dependent tales of cosmic fantasy never achieve.
There are no voice-over commentaries here, no talking-head interviews or TV news clips. We hear Walter Cronkite, the Homer of the American space odyssey, but we never see his face. Other than the astronauts, the celebrities, including Johnny Carson, are reduced to spectators, sweltering in Florida's July heat along wit...
The emphasis is on workaday procedure, not giant leaps. "Apollo 11" tells the story by an accumulation of small details: a rig in motion; a leaky valve; Aldrin's heart rate; snippets of flight data and diagrams superimposed on the screen. Close-ups of text-only computer monitors and pencil-on-paper calculations reveal ...
But there's a paradox: The movie becomes more ordinary during the sequences that were, in reality, the most extraordinary. Once the Apollo 11 module reaches space, all the available images are taken from photos and films that have been seen before. The astronauts' sojourn on the moon itself is told mostly with a sequen...
Another source of drama is Matt Morton's music, which throbs and pulses — before turning, unfortunately, a little too honeyed at the end. In the spirit of the era, Morton used only analog synthesizers that were available in 1969. Like the engineers who somehow managed to send a man to the moon in the pre-PC era, Morton...
The insurance crisis may be over -- at least for insurance companies. It's still hard, expensive, or impossible for many day-care centers, obstetricians, cities and towns, and commercial truckers to get liability insurance. For them, the crisis hasn't ended.
But after more than a year of banging the drum for ``tort reform,'' there has been scarcely a peep of complaint recently from the property/casualty insurance industry.
That may be because the industry is relishing its third consecutive quarter of good profits. After nine quarters of overall losses, the property/casualty insurance business began recovering early this year.
Since raising premiums and rigorously cutting back on the number of high-risk businesses and professions it insures, the industry appears on its way to a highly profitable year.
During the first six months of 1986, the industry posted pretax operating earnings of $2 billion. The gain was based on $10.6 billion in net investment income, offsetting an $8.6 billion underwriting loss.
Though industrywide totals for the third quarter are not yet available, a number of companies have begun to report higher profits. Barring some major natural disaster, analysts say, the industry as a whole will record ``excellent profits'' this year.
Among those reporting higher earnings, Firemen's Fund Corporation said last week its third-quarter operating profit more than doubled, to $44.3 million from $19.6 million a year earlier. SAFECO Corporation reported $20.5 million in earnings, as opposed to just $7.3 million a year ago -- a 179 percent rise.
Other corporations, too, were buoyed by their insurance subsidiaries. ITT Corporation said net income rose 64 percent over last year, primarily on the strength of its Hartford Insurance Group subsidiary. Sears, Roebuck & Co. said its earnings rose 25 percent in the quarter, primarily because its Allstate Insurance ...
The insurance industry has attributed its financial ``crisis'' to an explosion in litigation and wild jury awards. Thus, the companies have proceeded to limit the availability of insurance, raise its cost, and push for legislative limits on jury damage awards.
Since early this year there has been a general easing of restrictions on availability and even some moderation in premiums as underwriting has become less restrictive while profits have become better.
``We have noticed [premium rates] are quite a bit better now, and some of the biggest reductions have been in states where tort reform legislation has been put into place,'' says Harvey Seymour, a spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group.
Critics say the insurance companies themselves are responsible for their own losses.
Value Line's Mr. Sacco says that when the economy was good and interest rates high, insurance companies cut premiums to capture more money to invest while interest rates were high. Many companies were not careful in assessing risk vs. cost, and when interest rates fell, investment income did not cover underwriting loss...
Athens (AFP) - Germany pledged to support Greece in dealing with the "extraordinary burden" of migrants landing on its shores every day, as the death toll from the latest boat sinkings rose to 27.
More than half a million people have arrived by sea in Greece this year seeking safety and a better life in Europe, while more than 3,200 people have died making the perilous crossing from Turkey.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on a visit to Athens, said Berlin was ready to stand by Greece as it coped on the front line of Europe's biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
"At a moment when Greece is trying to recover economically, this influx is an extraordinary burden," Steinmeier told the Greek daily Ta Nea.
"We will support Greece as it faces up to this big challenge."
Europe, he said, "must demonstrate more courage in order to grow stronger".
"We must act together to take control of the situation, to safeguard Europe's external borders, to develop a common approach to asylum and immigration and to fairly share out the refugees," he said.
More than 700,000 people have reached Europe via the Mediterranean in 2015, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with many hoping to make it to Germany, the continent's economic powerhouse.
Most of those travelling to Greece have risked their lives making the dangerous sea crossing in overloaded, rickety boats.
Several sank off Greek islands in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday, with the death toll rising to 17, including 11 children, after another body was found and a child died in hospital on the island of Lesbos. Around 40 people were still missing.
In a separate incident, at least 10 drowned when a boat carrying nearly 150 migrants sank off the Greek island of Kalymnos Thursday night.
Two young children and two adults were found drowned on Thursday, a day after a boat carrying around 300 migrants overturned off Lesbos. Rescuers managed to save some 240 people.
Elsewhere Spain's coastguard said it had rescued 15 migrants from a boat sinking off the coast of Morocco, but 39 others who were on board were missing.
The migrant crisis has opened up rifts between EU members over how to deal with the new arrivals.
Nations along the migrant trail northwards from Greece have been overwhelmed, and Hungary has sealed its southern borders with razor wire to stop the flow.
Austria has said it too planned to build a barrier at a border crossing with Slovenia, but on Thursday Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner rowed back from calling it a "fence" amid tensions with the European Commission.
In France police clashed with stone-throwing migrants as they tried to carry out security checks at a camp near the northern port of Calais.
Hundreds of Buddhist monks took to the streets of several cities and towns in Myanmar on Wednesday to protest against police violence during a crackdown on demonstrators at a copper mine last month.
At least 50 people were injured on Nov. 29, including more than 20 monks who suffered serious burns, when riot police raided camps set up round the Monywa copper mine by villagers protesting against their eviction to make way for a $1 billion expansion of the project.
On Wednesday, about 100 monks marched peacefully in the commercial capital, Yangon, from the city's main landmark, the Shwedagon Pagoda, towards the city centre amidst heavy police security.
Hundreds also demonstrated in the second city, Mandalay, and in Pakokku, a town 370 miles (600 km) northwest of Yangon, which was a focal point of monk-led pro-democracy protests in 2007 under the country's former military regime.
Monks and activists have called for an apology from the authorities and for legal action against those responsible for the crackdown.
Activists have said the burns suffered by protesters were caused by incendiary devices. A government spokesman said at the time devices that produce smoke, as well as water cannon and teargas, had been used to disperse the protesters.
Rights groups have called for a speedy, impartial investigation and those demands have already been met, to some extent.
An official inquiry into the violence and the copper mine expansion is under way, led by Nobel Peace laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has said a compromise would be needed between villagers and the operators of the mine.
Myanmar's religious affairs minister, Myint Maung, made a formal apology to 29 senior monks last Friday for injuries suffered by monks and others.
The authorities say people detained during the protests have been freed on bail.
The Monywa copper mine in Myanmar's rugged northwest Sagaing region has been the scene of protests since late August, testing the limits of political liberalisation under reformist President Thein Sein.
Would ban the sale of US chips or other components to companies that violate US sanctions.
Plan not to use current equipment and upcoming 5G gear .
Last-ditch drive to exclude Huawei.
Govt says security risks too great.
Trade tensions between the two economies ease.
Trump asks Commerce Department to get ZTE "back into business, fast".
As 5G breaks four-year network investment drought.
Sent US components illegally to Iran.
Pleads guilty to breaching sanctions.
Her plays Shikhandi and 07/07/07 received immense appreciation from critics.
Faezeh Jalali is an actor, director, playwright and dramatist who garnered appreciation after her role in Slumdog Millionaire. Her plays Shikhandi – The Story of the In-Betweens and 07/07/07 received immense appreciation from critics.
Your stories are unconventional, advocate equality and human rights. Why?
Whenever I create a work, I work on something that I value, and it has meaning for me. My work may or may not have an extension of the activism, but, it is the reflection of who I am and what I do. For me, theatre explores a kind of freedom in storytelling and its okay for me to take the risk of experimenting with form...
Tell us something about your initial days.
I never started working for theatre. It was always there in me. My journey as a theatre person began when I was four or five years old. In the first standard, we were asked to draw the person we wanted to become, and I drew an actor in a theatre space.
One of the nostalgia associated with the theatre is when I was seven-eight years old and wearing saree and costume and enacting, dancing around at home, my sisters and I would act out of those plays. Those childhood memories are still part of me. I was born to be a theatre artist. Professionally, the first step was whe...
What defines you better: A writer, director or an actor?
They all are part of me. The strongest part of me is a director. The determined portion of me is a writer, and the craziest part of me is the actor.
What do you think of your audience in the theatre?
The audience appreciates good play and hard work. The play needs to be engaging and entertaining for an audience to sit through for 90 minutes, otherwise, why would anyone come and feel sad for so long?
On a serious note, there is nothing really that we can do about the audience. Unlike movies, the theatre has its limitation and limited audience. In theatre, the artist can be only in one place at one time. I guess the only way forward is to go out on a limb first, to present excellent work that then gets audiences int...
How can theatre be monetised?

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