Marie Kondo and Audrey Gelman have, wittingly or not, made their honest messages into beautiful and fancy goods and services that fail to honor their original design.
Livelihoods, economies and entire cultures have been affected by COVID-19.
I didn’t grow up particularly religious. My parents rejected most political and corporate institutions with a persistent Gen X apathy.
I think out of all of Disney’s properties, I found comfort in the fantasy of Winnie the Pooh because, to me, it seemed like all of the characters could actually exist.
When I was a young girl, I hated Aphrodite.
In a 2005 commercial, my mother turns to the camera and beams, “My child wants to be an artist.”
As a kid, I absolutely loved the NBA. The league had the biggest and brightest basketball stars in the world, and being the six-year-old dreamer I was, I wanted to be just like them
I’m obsessed with music data. At this point, I might as well just call it what it is: an addiction.
The question caught me off guard.
YouTube is where I go when I want to be entertained — effortlessly, thoughtlessly, mind-numbingly entertained.
One of my favorite pieces I read in all my years of English classes was Albert Camus’s essay on the myth of Sisyphus.
Ever since the dawn of my movie-watching days, I have been singularly obsessed with animation.
Twenty years after it first premiered, “The West Wing” remains one of the most influential shows in modern TV history.
One of the first things I consciously remember reading as a child was a book on zodiacs.
My first exposure to female rap was Lauryn Hill’s “MTV Unplugged No. 2.0,” which my mother had on vinyl and would play most evenings after school.
I tend to discover music in one of two ways: either from the usual cycle of new releases and album reviews, or from a chance trip down the rabbit hole of Spotify’s related-artists feature.
Nadia Shanaa is a Palestinian, hijab-wearing, Virgo energy-radiating character from “Elite,” a show that Vulture aptly described as “Netflix’s best horny teen drama.”
The cultural discourse surrounding mental health seems to perpetuate and welcome the worst baseline. And when the baseline is disrupted, it feels nearly impossible to reset.
Outside of the puppies at the Canine Cognition Center, Durham might be the best thing Duke has to offer us.
I arrived in New York a full week and a half before starting my new job. Just enough time to orient myself to my new landscape.
