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 …
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 …
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 …
Some very erudite critiques of Nickelback make my trash-talking look like sophistry. And it basically is. Because Nickelback is the ick-factor incarnate for me. It stems from a simple distaste for anyone acting like something they’re not. It’s a disdain for dishonesty. Music journalist and critic Shaunacy Ferro quotes the Scandinavian scholars who studied the anti-Nickelback …
As the #metoo momentum continues to expose more rot, the magnitude of just one man’s deviance is almost incomprehensible. The latest sexual predator to be publicly condemned for his private crimes is sports doctor Larry Nassar. At his sentencing hearing 156 women shared their victim impact statements. Let me say that again. One hundred and …
I fear we will never agree on a solution because we can’t even agree on what the problem is. What is the root cause of American mass shootings? If you post that question on facebook you’ll never stop getting answers. Guns. People. Mental health crisis. School bullying. Entitled millenials raised by pumpkin spice latte sipping …
Netflix is being petitioned to pull Tom Segura’s latest comedy special because of his bit about his right to use the word “retarded”. He and those defending him are claiming that honoring that petition would infringe on free speech. He maintains, (in this not really that funny bit), that he has the right to use …
The title read, “Want to Stop Sexgate 2017? Stop Feminism”. Do I want to drink from this firehose? We often ask ourselves from the burning wreckage of political posts we navigate from friends, colleagues, distant relatives and relative strangers. A very Catholic cousin of mine, whom I haven’t seen since our Grandma’s funeral mass exactly twenty-five …
One of my best friends is a communications specialist. Her mastery of the written language is surpassed only by her mastery of reading people and reading between the lines. That is to say that her observations are largely beyond reproach. She texted me to ask if I had heard about Kevin Spacey. We lamented his …