Let’s be honest: I love a good tragedy as much as the next hopeless romantic. I’m perfectly content grabbing a box a tissues and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, curling up under the covers, and bawling my eyes out to the most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Although my life isn’t always such a cliché, such occurrences happen a little more often than I would like to admit. I just … [Read more...] about Modern Classics: Romeo and Taylor Swift
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New Slang: An Assortment of 1910s Terminology
If ever the case should be when you are in possession of a time machine or happen to blink in front of a Weeping Angel and are transported back into the 1910s, keep this post in mind because it will help you understand a hodgepodge of popular slang terminology of that decade. No doubt everyone already knows the meaning of the word “jazz,” even though its history is less … [Read more...] about New Slang: An Assortment of 1910s Terminology
Urban Inventions: Taking Back the City
What is green, the size of a car, and costs $.25 an hour? A: The parklet. The parklet was created by the design firm, Rebar, in San Francisco in 2005. A parklet is a mini park placed in parking spaces in urban environments. Originally designed as a simple green space with a bench and a tree, some parklets now have Wifi and even a USB port so people can charge their … [Read more...] about Urban Inventions: Taking Back the City
Brain Fodder: Bobby McFerrin Plays… the Audience!
What’s there to learn from TED this week? TED’s “Best of the Web” collection showcases speeches and performances gathered from across the web deemed worth sharing. Surely the viral hits TED collects will never be on the same caliber as the seventeen-second clip of “Surprised Kitty” or other similar hits on YouTube, but Bobby McFerrin’s performance of the pentatonic scale does … [Read more...] about Brain Fodder: Bobby McFerrin Plays… the Audience!
TV Culture: “The Mindy Project” Earns an A+ in Cultural Comedy
Mindy Kaling, widely known from The Office, successfully debuted her own project last month on Fox. The Mindy Project follows Mindy Lahiri (Kaling) through her professional and personal life as an OB/GYN in pursuit of love. As a 31 year-old doctor, Mindy is eager to find a good man and is devoted to quoting cheesy lines from her favorite romantic comedies until she finds him. … [Read more...] about TV Culture: “The Mindy Project” Earns an A+ in Cultural Comedy