In the introduction to her book A Woman’s Guide to the Wild: Your Complete Outdoor Handbook, author Ruby McConnell describes her motivation for writing this p...
Some A+ songs honoring some of the most (s)heroic people in the world!
Lisa Sawyer - Leon Bridges
This up-and-coming crooner wrote this soulful ballad about m...
Her Roots celebrates and promotes female musical talent, a community that is often overlooked within the city’s music scene. I had the chance to chat with Calve and Ben Tufts, the co-founder of Her Roots, celebrated drummer, and percussionist for the Lauren Calve Band.
If music had the power to provide a dose of Vitamin D through the soundwaves, these songs would be laying it on thick.
Pour a cold one, pump up the bass, and l...
Have you heard? YA books are so hot right now. Sure, you’ve plowed through Harry Potter, and The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and Divergent, but by no means should you stop there. Here are fifty-six stellar stories that will captivate audiences well over the age of 18.
It’s no secret that the majority Hollywood films feature male protagonists; in an effort to eschew that shameful imbalance, we have selected titles starring strong, funny, intelligent, brave, and admirable women. Happy viewing!
Boasting over 20,000 participants, GirlTrek is explicitly rooted in community and pays homage to the women who have come before them. As the organization’s website puts it: “When Black women walk, things change. When Harriet Tubman walked, things changed. When the women in the Montgomery Bus Boycotts walked, things changed. And when we walk, things will change!”
I love the Vince Guaraldi Trio just as much as the next person, but at this rate radio channels and stores have been blasting Christmas songs since October and ...
If you’re not spending time in the woods during the month of October, then you’re doing it all wrong. Here is Part Two of a two-part mix for all your autumn forest strolls.
If you're not spending time in the woods during the month of October, then you're doing it all wrong. Here is a two-part mix for all your autumn forest strolls....
In her latest collection of stories, Lydia Davis drives readers through the often unwieldy terrain of microfiction with confidence, skill, and ease. Comprised o...
Sara Kay Mooney, a recent-ish alumna of Davidson College and Teach For America, is a librarian at a Title I Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina. When she's not giving book recommendations to adolescents, you can find her taking pictures, frequenting thrift stores, or laughing at her husband's jokes, among many other things.
