My friends don’t want a Mormon president. They have non-religious reasons for disliking Gov. Romney, of course, but even if he were a decent guy who liked social safety nets and gays, they’d still take a look at his religion and say: That’s some crazy shit! And it is. Mormonism is bonkers. But my problem with Mitt [...]
Memorial Day Weekend in any major vacation destination is a huge clusterfuck, so bemoaning this over and over again every year is pointless. Okay, so you don’t want to get anywhere near South Beach — that’s fine, what with the current police state there, you probably won’t easily be able to enter the island anyways [...]
In the trailer for Chiara Clemente’s Our City Dreams, Kiki Smith says, “I used to always joke when I was younger that most of the representations of women was women lounging about naked. While I would love to be doing that, it wasn’t my reality.” There’s little need to explicate the lack of realism that [...]
Addiction is the entertainer’s disease. It would seem that just about every episode of VH1’s Behind the Music finds the artist or group in question at rock bottom during their story, generally at the beck and call of whatever vice has ahold of them. Ricky Byrd was one such entertainer: a guitarist who managed to find [...]
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 [...]
