Record Store Day has gotten so big so quickly, it’s spawning subplots: Will the hardened eBay sellers who try to buy up all the limited album pressings spoil the fun for everyone else? Will the resurgent vinyl LP — the centerpiece of Record Store Day’s expanding product line — continue its retail revival? Or have [...]
Trayvon Martin is a martyr. He died defending gay rights. Don’t agree? Then you’re a hopeless reactionary, and probably a racist and a sexist to boot. Or so you might be led to believe by reading of some of the fringier discourse attached to the Trayvon tragedy, which in recent weeks has come to represent [...]
Samantha Brick has been getting a lot of attention lately. First, she described in painstaking detail the tribulations of being hot and how it makes other women hate her. I’m not going to attack Brick’s looks — although it’s sad/silly to me that she believes there is one universal beauty standard that she meets and [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
