Once it was over, the night’s importance was hard to miss. In most ways, it, like much of the last year, belonged to women. Next time someone complains about the length of the Oscars telecast, please refer them to the 2019 Grammy Awards. Clocking in at just over twenty-three years, the Grammys overstayed their welcome […]
There’s something about the music that you grew up with that gives it a place in your heart forever. And even after it’s fallen off the charts or gone out of fashion, it grows along with you. In the summer of 2017, I went to see the band U2 play at Soldier Field in Chicago. […]
These songs haven’t so much been the soundtrack of my 2017 as they have been the sound of what I hoped I could achieve. When I look back on 2017, I’ll remember the music. I used to have music on all the time. Back before iPods, I carried my Discman around with me everywhere, and […]
The beating heart of music, art, and literature knows that artists are morally obligated to expose human and societal truths, or else the death of our humanity is certain. In 2006, my college boyfriend bought us tickets to my first concert: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young at a rural Pennsylvania stop on the “Freedom of […]
When you worship someone, is it because you wish you could be that person? That was the third trip downstairs for food. I wasn’t hungry; I was angry, mostly with myself but not ready to admit it. I’d eaten a huge lunch at the Grove so this was just old learned behavior that was supposed […]
You might be a great guy, but if all the movies and books listed in your online dating profile favorites are by dudes or about dudes, we’ve got a problem. Dear Gentleman of OkCupid, and also of the world, I really like your profile, and that picture of your bike and/or cat is totally turning […]
