So this book isn’t totally obscure, having won the 1997 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, but Dark Sky Question by Larissa Szporluk still deserves a dose of the spotlight. A…
It’s Saturday morning and you know what that means. It means I need a drink. Two gun puns in the title? Come on, y’all. I’m with Sadie here: what kind…
My husband enjoys scuba diving. Prior to meeting my present spouse, I had never entertained the notion of going diving, as it combines three things I generally try to avoid:…
Big Picture has some great pictures of the Berlin Reunion, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not to glamorize crime or anything, but this plane…
It doesn’t take a Harvard-trained therapist to know that with love comes madness, obsession, jealousy, mind-fuckery, fear, panic and a healthy dose of psychosexual terrorism. Maybe these symptoms aren’t manifested…
In which a murder victim’s daughter tracks down the Mafia hitman-turned-Central-American-minister who killed her father. Eventually, she confronted the guy while wearing a hidden camera. But to get there, she…
The Heart of Great Alone: haunting images of polar expedition. Lighting design exhibition uses actual dandelions. What makes Ardi, the oldest known skeleton of a human-like primate, so dang important.…
90 Years of Vogue Magazine covers. You know, if that’s your thing. New Scientist wants to tell you about the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. Sometimes extreme…
My coworker wants me to drop an F-Bomb. Photographers talk about their hardest earned shots. way rad. The people of Spain understand who deserves memorializing: Almodovar’s monument. Have you heard…
The Atlantic covers Leak & Sons Funeral Home in Chicago’s South Side. Business is up, and that’s not a good thing, especially when the average age of the deceased is getting…
No, no, no—you wear rubber boots for plumbing work. Think about it, Doug. If the pipe breaks, you don’t want your feet to get wet. For electrical stuff it doesn’t…