“For many of us,” Brooke Hauser writes for the New Yorker, “the Baby-Sitters Club offered an early glimpse into the world of ambitious working women. Granted, they were middle-schoolers, but they were girl bosses, role models long before pop culture gave us Olivia Pope, Liz Lemon, or Leslie Knope.” For those of us who didn’t grow up chewing through every Harry Potter book, but instead fed our appetite on the B.S.C., it’s hard to not remember strong-willed and entrepreneurial Kristy, VP Claudia, reserved Mary Anne and the handful of characters that marked the pages, and our childhoods. Book Buttons Embed ISBN: …
Born at just shy of 24 weeks old and weighing in at a single pound, Juniper was quickly rushed to an incubator. Her parents, a shaky title at best, were unknowingly about to begin a terrifying chapter in their lives. It would months before Juniper’s condition stabilized, and years before long term complications could be ruled out. But when new dad Tom French decided to read to Juniper – who could in no way comprehend the words or meaning – Tom and wife, Kelley, found hope in the stabilizing beep of her monitor. “Chapter 1: The boy who lived” Images …
After being convicted of “violating public modesty” with a work of fiction and sentenced to two years in prison, Egyptian novelist, Amhed Naji, is facing his final appeal. On December 4th a court will decide if Naji is innocent or if he’ll be staying in prison to finish out his sentence. The legality of the charge, the claim that Naji is culpable of “violating public modesty”, according to one of his readers, has been in question since 2014. Hani Saleh Tawfik, the reader who brought Naji to court, claimed that a passage from Naji’s novel, Istikhdam al-Haya (The Use of …
This week, Hunter S. Thompson’s wife, Anita Thompson, said she plans to sell Thompson brand pot in homage to her late husband. People show love in strange ways, but this gesture feels oddly perfect for the peyote tripping, LSD loving, gonzo journalist. Adorned with her husband’s image, Anita will market an entire line of cannabis products, all to be sold at the pair’s former home, Owl Farm, in Woody Creek, Colorado. The late Thompson (image courtesy of StonedGirls) The cannabis line, Gonzo, will be a replica of the weed Hunter smoked himself, cloned (science, nice) and sold as six separate strains. Anita …
Dystopic times call for dystopic entertainment. And now that we’ve been thoroughly steeped in Black Mirror, Westworld, and a handful of other thrillers so eerily resonant of these troubling times, we’re vying for the next dose. We’ve grown cynical and shrewd and we’re officially ready for Hulu’s take on The Handmaid’s Tale. All images courtesy of Hulu. Starring Elizabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale series will closely follow the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. The narrative follows Ofred, a concubine (although not called so in the book) to the ruling class in the enclosed Republic of Gilead. Things aren’t looking …
