Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
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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Louisa never ventured out of her small English town and was content working at a small café and spending time at home, doing nothing particularly exciting. Will, on the other hand, was constantly venturing out. He lived a fast life in London, making tons of money and spending his free time bungee jumping. Then he…
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If e-cigarettes are meant to help adults curb smoking, it seems like flavored nicotine may, indeed, be a marketing ploy for kids. Otherwise, wouldn’t we have seen cinnamon toast crunch cigarettes before now if it was something adults craved? Dowries are not legal in India, but that has not kept people from paying them or…
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All you need to know about India’s elections are best learned through conversations around street food. In recent years, I have had many acquaintances be diagnosed with MS. If you’re noticing the same, I recommend learning what the disease is all about. Including a middle initial in your name will make others perceive you as…
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“Go Ask Alice” has been used for years as a teaching tool for middle and high school students. It is a supposedly real account written by “Anonymous” (to maintain authenticity) that is gritty enough to caution young people against using drugs. Enough people told me how moved they were by the story that I decided…
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With this app you could pay $45 per month for unlimited java. This will make caffeine addicted New Yorkers very very happy. Nearly 300 Nigerian girls have been kidnapped by an extreme Islamic sector that plans to sell them into slave marriages. It’s awful that it took two weeks for this story to gain traction,…
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Jamie Ford’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet travels back in time to “The War Years,” as Henry, the main character, calls them. He was born and raised in Seattle; however, he is clearly Chinese, which makes him the recipient of endless taunting by his fellow students at the white prep school he attends…
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These six people are making the world a better place. There is a drug that can save someone who is in the process of dying of a heroin overdose. In New Jersey, the first life has been saved. Will knowing about this “bail out” drug encourage addiction? 1 in 68 children are being diagnosed with…
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