This was the year ‘The Bachelorette’ tried to take on race. Things did not go well.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
Radical Candor and Radical Comfort: The Road to Danish-ness
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.
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The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love
The merchants of Haight-Ashbury advertised a summer of free food, free lodging, and free love. What they got instead was a civic nightmare.
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The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love
The merchants of Haight-Ashbury advertised a summer of free food, free lodging, and free love. What they got instead was a civic nightmare.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, History
Billy Bragg: Skiffle Songs Are Railroad Songs
“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.”
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Miles to Go Before You Sleep
“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.”
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The Gossip Columnist Who Became the News
Liz Smith looks back at her role in the Trump divorce.
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Seeing and Being Seen in Shakespeare
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.
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Scarred by a Rubber Doll
“I’ll never go back to dating a real woman again — no matter what happens.”
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The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine
One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.