Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
Three Chinese girls meet on the streets of San Francisco and immediately link themselves together for the next ten years. They have little in common other than their desire to escape their current lives and the hole that is missing from never having real friends. Grace, a wide-eyed innocent, has left her small, Midwestern town…
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A Comcast agent spent 20 minutes trying to dissuade customers from cancelling service. Listening to the recording is actually painful. I cringe. Comcast is embarrassed but also stand by their aggressive retention tactics. I get how a visit to a concentration camp could be a powerful experience – so moving you would want to document…
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First Google Glass and now smart contact lenses. Google and Novartis are joining forces to develop contacts that measure glucose levels and provide real-time updates to an app for people with diabetes. Apparently there’s data in your tears that can be transmitted to your smartphone. It’s like we’re living with the Jetsons. Music sets the…
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I kinda love these drunk horoscopes. How spot on is yours? I’m proud to say I got all five questions right on the test NYC private pre-Ks are now admitting. But I had to think pretty hard. And I’m 29. Who are these baby geniuses? Violence in Israel is out of hand. Let me break…
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“The Goldfinch” is intimidating. It is a 771 page hardcover that really weighs down my tote bag on my commute to work. I think that’s the reason I put off reading it for so long. But “long and heavy” is no longer a valid excuse when the novel is on every best list and then…
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European Court has upheld France’s ban of the niqab, the type of veil worn by many Muslim women that only leaves a slit for the eyes. I’m not sure I like the veil itself…but I’m also not sure how I feel about a government telling someone they can’t wear something that is a part of…
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Home ownership used to be the American Dream, but now people are really into renting. Unfortunately, the market can’t quite keep up with the demand. This is a whole new kind of housing crisis. Forget the toilet seat liners; looks like nature has made your own skin a good enough barrier to germs. Some people…
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I obsessed over the Fiske Guide to Colleges when I was in high school. I’m not sure this scorecard can fully replace it (particularly without an input for test scores or GPA), but I like to see the White House taking the steps to encourage all students to go to college and to find the…
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When Amelia commits suicide by jumping off the roof of her elite New York City prep school, things don’t quite add up for her mother. Amelia was happy and never showed any of the signs, but Kate doesn’t start asking questions until she gets a mysterious text from a blocked number telling her Amelia didn’t…
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In Mexico City there is a shelter for elderly sex workers. A photographer has documented their lifestyle and it is rather facinating. It’s strange to think about trading people and the value we thereby place on lives, but that’s exactly what just happened as President Obama offered up five Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in…
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Peaches to Apples 