Kevin Smith’s Second Act By Catherine Cusick Commentary Kevin Smith’s business motto is to give the people more Kevin Smith.
Remembering ‘Ally McBeal’s’ Creepy Dancing Baby By Mike Dang Highlight An oral history of “Ally McBeal” from the show’s cast and creators, 20 years after its debut.
Like Sheep to the Sanitized Slaughter Zone By Michelle Weber Highlight “Turkey, in all of its modernist efforts, is just covering up the smell of its own shit.”
American Sphinx By Colin Dickey Feature Civil War monuments in the North erased an emancipated Black population. But the Sphinx looked to a new world: an integrated Africa and America.
Why Did a Young Woman Broadcast Her Death? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An 18-year-old Parisian woman streams her suicide on social media.
A Thousand Miles of Bad Roads with No Maps and No Men By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A group of determined adventurers spent seven days driving the desert in the first all-female road rally.
The Rising Seas Are Coming From Inside the House By Michelle Weber Highlight On Game of Thrones and climate change: “Every city in the world is built on wildfire.”
When Is an Internet Company Evil? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What is Facebook *really* about? Surveillance and advertising, not about “the power to build community” as its new mission statement so disingenuously puts it.
God and Stone: One Woman Explores Her Armenian Roots By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A young woman reconnects with her family’s ancestral home.
The Lawn is a Lie By Pam Mandel Highlight Am I proud of my lawn? Absolutely not. I am completely ashamed of it. I have a terminal case of lawn guilt.
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List By Erin Blakemore Commentary The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Joss Whedon and the Feminist Pedestal: A Reading List By Catherine Cusick Reading List A guided reading list on feminism, fandom, and fidelity for Buffy enthusiasts.
These Are the Locals Who Get The Story of Charlottesville Right By Nell Boeschenstein Commentary The historians, activists, reporters, and columnists who tell the complicated and ever-changing story of their own community.
More Than a Riot Going On: A ‘Detroit’-Inspired Reading List By Danielle Jackson Reading List The failures of Kathryn Bigelow’s film undercut the fullness, complexity, and beauty of Detroit.
Failed Promises: A ‘Bachelorette’ Reading List By Ikya Kandula Reading List This was the year ‘The Bachelorette’ tried to take on race. Things did not go well.
Radical Candor and Radical Comfort: The Road to Danish-ness By Michelle Weber Highlight A bit embarrassed, I ask to be excused, to go to the bathroom “real quick.” “You can also do it real slow!” he shouts as I walk away.
The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love By Longreads Feature The merchants of Haight-Ashbury advertised a summer of free food, free lodging, and free love. What they got instead was a civic nightmare.
Billy Bragg: Skiffle Songs Are Railroad Songs By Pam Mandel Commentary “The British kids were trying to escape the past as quickly as they could and the guitar offered them the best means to do that.”
Miles to Go Before You Sleep By Michelle Weber Highlight “When the safety crew came to retrieve him, Brandon was adamant he’d been underground for two full days. In reality, he’d only been below for twelve hours.”
The Gossip Columnist Who Became the News By Michelle Legro Commentary Liz Smith looks back at her role in the Trump divorce.
Seeing and Being Seen in Shakespeare By Catherine Cusick Highlight Nicole Chung takes her daughter to see The Winter’s Tale brought to life by Asian American artists, with characters who look just like her.
Scarred by a Rubber Doll By Pam Mandel Highlight “I’ll never go back to dating a real woman again — no matter what happens.”
The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.
It’s A Very Muppets Controversy! By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Steven Whitmire, who was was let go after playing Kermit for nearly three decades, has fired back at Disney.
Percy Ross Wants to Give You Money! By Jacqui Shine Feature He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it.
Architecture and Religious Bias: A California Case Study By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When a group of Sufis wanted to build a large sanctuary in the California hills, locals pushed back and the town grew divided.
A Whale Hunt on Facebook By Pam Mandel Highlight Anti-whaling activists target an Arctic subsistence hunter after a whale hunt gets media coverage.
Our Zombies, Ourselves: An Undead Reading List By Erin Blakemore Reading List The zombie movie is more than an easy scare. It’s also become an essential lens through which we can view society.
In a League of His Own: One Man’s Mission to Make Moviegoing Fun Again By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Alamo Drafthouse creator Tim League wants to make moviegoing fun again.
Tennessee Williams’ Catastrophe of Success By Catherine Cusick Highlight Fame turned the playwright into a “public Somebody” overnight — a crisis that landed him in the hospital.
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