Alissa Wilkinson is the founding editor of The Curator, associate editor of Comment, and on staff at International Arts Movement. She is the assistant director of online education at The King's College, where she also teaches writing. Her work on pop culture, philosophy, politics, and fine art has appeared in a number of publications, including Paste, Christianity Today, Patrol, WORLD, and Relevant, and she is a founding contributor at Filmwell.
Alissa harbors a not-so-secret obsession with cooking, farmer’s markets, and food policy; reads a lot of books; drinks a lot of herbal tea; and watches movies with her husband, Tom, in their tiny apartment high above the Brooklyn treetops.
From the New York Times: A Few Dollars at a Time, Patrons Support Artists on the Web. Earl Scioneaux III is not a famous music producer like Quincy Jones. He is a simple audio engineer in New Orleans who mixes live albums of local jazz musicians by day and creates electronic music by night. He [...]
Pitchfork has released their list of the top 500 tracks of the last decade – and they provide streaming links so you can listen to most of them. The top ten: 1. OutKast – “B.O.B.” 2. LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” 3. M.I.A. [ft. Bun B and Rich Boy] – “Paper Planes (Diplo Remix)” [...]
From the New York Times Magazine: The Power of the Purse. Remember the concept of “sisterhood”? That quaint relic of an idea that women owed it to other women to crash through ceilings and navigate a male world? It just might be taking new root in a most unexpected place – among women with money. [...]
The Boutique City Conundrum By Rebecca Horton Which model of urban growth actually works? The Art of Marriage in Julie and Julia By Judy and Makoto Fujimura Julie and Julia boasts a refreshing portrayal of marriage – with good food, to boot. The Dustbowl Troubadour By Dave Fuller The Okie songwriter who merged old and [...]
From The Atlantic: Are prepared foods making us fat? It is a topic I am pursuing, and I continue to be surprised at the dearth of studies. Barbara Rolls and colleagues have shown that portion size influences caloric intake; because prepared foods are often served in large portions, it seems likely that they promote excessive [...]
From Wired: Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain, 24/7/365. Numbers are making their way into the smallest crevices of our lives. We have pedometers in the soles of our shoes and phones that can post our location as we move around town. We can tweet what we eat [...]
From Psychology Today: What your music says about your personality. The question “What kind of music do you like?” is so revealing, it is the number one topic of conversation among young adults who are getting to know each other, according to psychologists Jason Rentfrow of the University of Cambridge in the U.K., and Sam [...]
From the LA Times: The Lost Art of Reading. It isn’t a failure of desire so much as one of will. Or not will, exactly, but focus: the ability to still my mind long enough to inhabit someone else’s world, and to let that someone else inhabit mine. Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps [...]
Creativity, Community, and Secret Agents By Rebecca Tirrell Talbot 826 CHI: your one-stop shop for tutoring, and supplies for your work as a secret agent. Finding Home Where the Hearth Is By Alissa Wilkinson On kitchens, and food, and learning to live life in the big city. Nurturing Creativity and Harboring Genius By Lindsay Crandall [...]
On kitchens, and food, and learning to live life in the big city.