Turning 30 is a terrifying thing for a lot of people. As such, year 29 carries quite a bit of weight. So why not do something special to remember your life before the transition into 30dom?
That is exactly what artist Nicole Kenney has done with her personal story project, diary29. That magical number, 29, also [...]

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Well, in honor of Ireland’s patron saint (who was most likely born in Wales), I thought we should get to know the real St. Patrick—he is, after all, the reason most of New York City will be trashed by 3p.m.! Such a holy day!
I’ll keep this short and bulleted, since I [...]

I confess. I am probably more likely to toss out my crap vacuum cleaner and buy a new one before I lug the thing in my granny cart (pimped out rims to come, so don’t hate) to a vacuum repair dude. Well, it seems my attitude has contributed to the demise of the vacuum repair [...]

I complain a lot. Hey, I’m just being honest. In fact, I sent an e-mail yesterday to our fearless leader Larry Smith about why I wasn’t blogging. Something about my sink exploding, hot water gushing, hot water flooding part of my kitchen, yoga teacher training, yoga teacher training graduation day…. OK, you get my drift. [...]

Valentine’s Day is just a week a way, and over at the PopuList we’re asking for your 100-word stories about the craziest thing you’ve ever done for love. From The Christian Science Monitor comes a love story either get you super jazzed about this, ahem, “holiday” or reconsider your commitment to your life partner. It’s [...]

Slate is a like a box of chocolates. Some days it runs a big piece on Bill Clinton and black voters, others days the top story is about a photographer obsessed with naked people. Today it was the latter, a piece about Spencer Tunick, One Naked Person Is Art (How About 600?). What do I [...]

Jennifer Russo, 27, owner of Spazzo salon, in Clinton, CT, hasn’t received many complaints in the seven years she has been styling hair. But with her side gig—as hairdresser to the deceased—it’s not even on the menu. Finding herself recently divorced with a new business, and lifestyle, to keep (Harley, anyone?), she ended up at [...]

“How do you make an Aussie and a California boy sound so convincingly cowboy that their accents aren’t even noticed?”
Brokeback Mountain dialect coach Joy Ellison has a voice so velvet smooth you want to curl up into it. She also has pretty green eyes and long red hair, and when she switches flawlessly from a [...]

It’s a Wednesday winter afternoon at the Missoula, MT stockyards and the intense action around the cattle chute resembles a pit stop at the Indy 500. Two dogs rush a cow into a chute, the door clangs shut, and while two men at her head check her teeth for age and ear tags for vaccinations, [...]