THE SAME few movies inevitably appear on lists and in discussions about empowering female roles in Hollywood — Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, Jodie Foster in…
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LAST WEEK, Gavin McInnes wrote a transphobic essay that was published on Thought Catalog. Calling it transphobic is an understatement. It was a rant filled with incredibly hateful…
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UNLESS YOU were barricaded in a windowless room somewhere earlier this week, you probably noticed the Super Moon on Sunday night. According to the 2014 Farmer’s…
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LET’S GET the important stuff out of the way first: there are some topics, and celebrities, we shouldn’t be looking to for good advice. Jenny…
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ARGUABLY, the worst kind of breakup is the one that pulls the carpet out from underneath you. You think things are going fine and…
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THE FIRST TIME I can remember hearing Stevie Nicks: I’m five or six, sitting on the brown carpet in my parents’ living room listening to…
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I STOPPED drinking soda for good after high school. Which wasn’t too hard, since I never drank it much then, either. Syrupy, sugary-sweet cola of…
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THEY SAY that the proof is in the pudding. Well, if you’re a restaurant and you don’t serve pudding, the proof might be in your…
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WHAT WERE you doing one year ago today? We’ve all asked ourselves that question at one point or another. Sometimes just for fun, other times…
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ACCORDING to Merriam-Webster, a selfie is “an image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera especially for posting on social networks.” According to me,…
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JULY 2ND marked the very middle of 2014. Yep, as scary as that sounds, we’re halfway through the year already. My first thought when I…
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JULY 4th makes me think about fireworks, hot dogs, beers, bomb pops, and sparklers. For 26 years I spent my Fourth of July indulging in at least…
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