“To this day, I’ve never stopped thinking about that music sanctuary for the twenty years it existed at that location.”
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A Work of Love
“Before gay marriage was legal, illustrator John Megahan was called to work on a revolutionary secret project: bringing to life, in painstaking scientific detail, the queer lives of the animal world.”
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“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day”
Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.
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Our Top 5: Dolphin Allure, Imperfect Voices, and More
Suddenly, it feels like the tail-end of summer. Where I live, that makes folks scramble.
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The Women Who Built Grunge
Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects. Thirty years later, it’s time to reassess their legacy.
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Leopards Are Living Among People. And That Could Save the Species.
“For leopards to survive, we must learn to live with them.”
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A New Series, An Unknown History, and the Week’s top 5
“Minstrelsy shows you one hand, convinces you of one thing—the thing you can see most vividly—while something else works behind the scenes. That something is something only those who are tapped into a specific kind of pain, a specific kind of quest for freedom that has failed before but is not worth abandoning, might understand.” […]
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What to Know Before You Go
A conversation with Lavinia Spalding, editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and our recent picks.
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Turf War
Seeing alternatives makes you realize how ubiquitous turfgrass is—though anyone who’s ever wrestled with their own Kentucky bluegrass doesn’t need to be reminded.
