We were the McGill Girls. The phenom that rose from the ashes of my parents’ brutal divorce. Pulled tightly together, a mother and her two girls, arms interlocked and nestled…
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Image Credit: Mural drawn onto the side of the bus shelter at 46th Avenue & Taraval in San Francisco, CA I tried to behave. Then there was the night I…
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Image Credit: Patri Hadad “Anthony Bourdain made everyone come to the same table // …
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French epi with pull-apart leaves left on the counter. Croissants flavored with chocolate, raspberry, almond, and cheese. Deli trays, brownie bites, and fruit-filled bouquets. Loaf after loaf—rye, sourdough, wheat. Frozen…
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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London rises from the ground 750 feet from the original site of the theater, the one built by the Chamberlain’s Men. Its white timbered exterior glows…
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Photo credit: Imgur.com They serve ethnic food for two reasons, Guy Fieri says: people from all over the place work here, and people want to eat food from all over…
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erry Arena, whose large-scale installation received the Board of Director’s Award at this year’s Baja Biennial, lives in the rich agricultural region of Ventura, California, where she teaches the fundamentals…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedInterview“Cleanse, attend, recalibrate”: A Conversation with Ben and Sandra Doller
Somewhere, in an email nearly a decade old now, and in reference to a conversation I can’t quite recall, Sesshu Foster wrote something to the effect of “there’s a difference…
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Whether or not I sound like a shill for Starbucks, as the Latte Macchiato is their hot new drink, I care not. Full disclosure: Starbucks corporate offices did not pay…
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We learn to tie a maraschino stem with our tongues before we meet you, learn to peel away the wrapper of a Starburst square with our teeth (and suck), dry…
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Midsummer noon, just outside the knot of angular skyscrapers that mark downtown Houston, I pull up to a clapboard building across the street from a lumber dealer and release a burning…
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first celebration of Thanksgiving “was held by the Plymouth colony in 1621, in thankfulness for their first harvest in America after a year of…
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Egg His daughter walks up to a small crowd huddled in a semi-circle. A woman is selling hard boiled eggs cooked in volcanic water. White orbs bobbing in a bowl-sized indent in…
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