Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
When it was becoming apparent that I was becoming a real bookworm and bored with the novels around me, my Mom introduced me to Agatha Christie. I fell in love with her mysteries and the gradual unraveling of secrets. It had been years since I had read anything by Christie, but when I saw one…
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Research shows that transgender children who take hormones to delay the onset of puberty (which would further transition them into the sex they do not wish to be) are more likely to be happy adults when they eventually undergo gender reassignment. Two weekends ago, a ton of New Yorkers participated in the People’s Climate March.…
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Lina Sparrow is assisting on a case that could make her law career. Her firm is trying to get reparations for slavery and Lina is trying to find a slave’s descendant to serve as the perfect plaintiff to help them win. Her search leads her to Josephine Bell, a name that has begun popping up…
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On Thursday, Scotland is voting to break from UK. The United Kingdom has been, well, united for over 300 years so this is kind of a big deal. Betty Boop did not just emerge from a cartoonist’s imagination. Did you know the inspiration for the animated sexpot was actually an African American woman? You know…
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Frankie Rowley describes herself as “temporizing.” Though she has steadily held a job as an aid worker in Africa, she never felt it was her true home. In search of something more permanent, she visits her family in New Hampshire, unsure if she will leave. The town of Pomeroy, New Hampshire is a sleepy town…
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If you’re a girl/woman/lady/female you have some sort of handbag with you at all times, but do you know the history of the thing that holds all of your most important items? I’ve always been a fan of hearing it like it is from my friends and I try to do them the same “courtesy”…
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I try my best not to curse but appreciate this chart depicting the evolution of swear words. A group of college guys is creating a nail polish that will change colors when it comes in contact with a drink that’s been drugged with Rohypnol or GHB. Though I’ve been lucky enough not to have been…
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If you ever want to read a classic but don’t want to devote all the time and brain power needed to digest a stuffy and old novel, I recommend a play. “Cyrano de Bergerac” was my choice when I found it in the discount bin at The Strand for $0.48 ($0.52 with tax – big…
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You’ve probably heard a lot about a kid named Michael Brown recently. Here’s what you need to know about the unarmed black teen who was shot by a police officer in a small Missouri town and the riots that have followed. The ALS ice bucket challenge has taken over everyone’s facebook feed. For those unfamiliar,…
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My sister in law has been referencing “Freakonomics” for years and even incorporates some of its chapters in her classroom. I finally decided to read for myself what makes the [somewhat boring] subject of economics so interesting and found it more enlightening than much of what I read as part of my college curriculum. Levitt…
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