A weary nation is grateful to Matt Damon. After the spoiled scion of Ivy League American elitism showcased his even temperament, bipartisan level-headedness and respect for the Supreme Court by throwing sneering tearful tantrums for the duration of the Senate Judiciary hearing, Matt Damon helped us laugh at what we weren’t totally sure we had …
I’m not saying that Chris Janson is the Brett Kavanaugh of country music. But non-consensual sex is NOT a rite of passage. It is not an inevitable mistake boys can’t help but make as they come of age. Non-consual sex is a crime whether you remember committing it or not, whether the victim was drunk …
There’s a scene from that Aaron Sorkin show* that everyone loved. With Bill Pullman? I never saw it but have seen it discussed with an almost nostalgic reverence, like our own favorite childhood memories. This clip is posted with great aplomb, and frequency, on my newsfeed. A middle-aged white man sits center stage at what …
Despite varied invitations, shall we say, there are only three sets of circumstances where I would get into a car with a male stranger at night. I am horribly injured and my death is imminent if I don’t take the risk that you will actually drive me to the hospital You’re Billy Ocean and I’m …
The latest round of navel-gazing on Facebook while feigning humble reluctance is the Top 10 Most Influential Albums – post a different album every day for ten days and wax nostalgic about how this music takes you back to wherever you were at that point in your life – physically and emotionally. Reminisce. Take us …
Hannah Gadsby is an art historian. She is openly gay. She is a rape survivor, a victim of a hate crime assault, and a daughter with a renewed relationship with her mother. Many people are some of these things. But no one is all of these things. And no one is as deft at using …
The left and the right have long accused each other of hypocrisy, disrespect and a lack of patriotism. And both sides are correct, according to their own ascribed values. When Robert De Niro introduced Bruce Springsteen at the Tony Awards this week he could have used his fame for good. But instead he used a …
Much ado is being made about the supposedly uncharted “grey area” between harmless flirting and nefarious and intentional sexual harassment. As though it were all so clear before Harvey Weinstein? This apparently unnavigable territory is basically the spontaneous consternation of well-meaning dudes who woke up in October, in the throes of the Weinstein revelation after …
Goodie O is introducing fellow entrepreneurs, the owners of the famed Carnivore and Fogo Goucho restaurants in Kenya, to longtime community development partners Samuel Muhunyo and Gwen Meyer. Today she’ll be having coffee at the popular Brazilian steakhouse next to her boutique to discuss the Karunga Women’s Group with them. She is collaborating with …
The Paseo Santa Lucia is an urban revitalization project come to life in Monterrey, Mexico – a river walk stretching some two miles between the Parque Fundidora to the sprawling Macro Plaza downtown. Tree-lined and flanked by restaurants, apartments, offices, green spaces, outdoor gyms, shops, museums and a massive convention center, it is a city …