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Where to Look for Work
From Good: The Best and Worst Cities to Look for Work. I'd quote from it, but you just have to see it for yourself....
Laura and Rose, and the Little House
From The New Yorker: Wilder Women. William Holtz points out that Laura had been so harried by poverty and hardship-doing some of the man's work that Almanzo couldn't manage, in addition to her own-that she might not have had much left to give, except the example of self-denial. Rose herself could be grandiose and domineering. There is nothing explicit in their letters (few of Laura's survive, one a belated paean of ...
Julie, Julia, and the Men They Married
From the New York Times: Full Stomachs, and Full Marriages Too. The film is food porn. (Seriously, don't come hungry.) And Ms. Streep's performance as the vowel-elongating chef will probably earn her another bushel of accolades and give Ms. Ephron her first hit movie in more than a decade. But it is the film's depiction of marriage - particularly the union of Julia and Paul Child - that has sparked chatter among peo...
July 31, 2009
Love, Zombie-fied By Josh Cacopardo Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: the Classic Regency Romance - now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! Harmony in the Middle East By Jenni Simmons The Band's Visit is a whimsical, unsentimental look at the way things could be. The Thing About Bruno By Alisa Harris What makes Bruno different from those other crude movies?...
July 24, 2009
Out of the Classroom, Into the Museum By Tom Alberti Experiencing the museum in the framework of "go and see," not "go and check-mark." Banana Split Cake: All-American Dessert By Lindsay Crandall A perfect no-bake summer dessert. The Case for the Much-Maligned Short Story By Kristyn Winters Why the short story, often ignored, deserves another look....
July 17, 2009
The Forecast: A Counterfeit Memoir About Everything You Know is True By Christy Tennant Caroline Ferdinandsen's debut novel is about the familiar struggle of the ordinary. Getting Out By Colin Campbell A photo essay on the need to get beyond the Inside Me. Who was Neda Agha-Soltan? By Josh Cacopardo The Internet made Neda Agha-Soltan a symbol of many things for many people. But who was she, ...
Another 365-Days Dress Project
From the Times Magazine: This Year's Model. What's immediately striking about clicking through the day-by-day photos on the Uniform Project is that two months into wearing the same thing every day, Matheiken is still way more stylish than you are. Part of this owes to the dress: while it's in the basic mold of a little black number, it was custom designed by Matheiken's friend Eliza Starbuck with this project in min...
White House Art
From the Wall Street Journal: Obama is changing the art on the White House walls. Their choices also, inevitably, have political implications, and could serve as a savvy tool to drive the ongoing message of a more inclusive administration. The Clintons received political praise after they selected Simmie Knox, an African-American artist from Alabama, to paint their official portraits. The Bush administration garnere...
