[su_vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/14340190″] There’s something about this little music video (featuring the song “Big Day,” by Norwegian electronica artist Torgny) that captures the hopeful-sad exhilaration and melancholy of saying goodbye to high school and heading out into the world. During late April and May, it’s tradition for Scandinavian seniors to celebrate with loud music and pranks. They also […]
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[su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_x7s3QiYk”] When I was in third grade, I lived in Maryland, where I was one of the only white girls in my elementary school. For the most part, my classmates were African-American, as was my teacher, Mr. Carter. He had the coolest, biggest afro I’d ever seen, and I was madly in love with […]
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The first Anthropologie store opened in Pennsylvania in 1992. It was begun by the group who runs Urban Outfitters and Free People, folks who have “a love for making things that inspire the imagination.” Unless you’ve been inside one yourself, their special brand of colorfully feminine vintagey stylish-yet-homey magic is hard to describe and do […]
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Beings and things are not sacred enough to me. May I never sully anything even though I be utterly transformed into mud. To sully nothing, even in thought. Even in my worst moments I would not destroy a Greek statue or a fresco by Giotto. Why anything else then? Why, for example, a moment in […]
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We love Sweet Paul, which is a magazine so pretty, I want to live in it. The website is gorgeous enough, but the printed magazine– available four times a year– is coffee-table-worthy. Creator Paul Lowe Einlyng was raised in Norway by his great aunt and grandmother, who taught him all about cooking, crafting, and decorating. […]
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[su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avm7nr1kZhg#action=share”] A Canadian charity is doing its part to just say no to sexting. Inspired by the suicide of Amanda Todd, a high school freshman who was bullied after flashing herself on a webcam, Children of the Street Society launched an ad campaign in the spring of 2013 to help prevent sexual exploitation. Program […]
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Denver seventh graders Olivia Maloney and Cameron Dreyer created “You Are Beautiful” for a school project. The mostly silent film features a girl named Abbey, who has an eating disorder. It was the first film for both girls, and it has gone on to win award after award, including first place in the […]
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Los Angeles loves its barre classes. Studios like Pop Physique and The Bar Method are springing up all across the city, but I only have eyes for Physique 57. I was first introduced to the workout by a friend. I didn’t know anything about it except what she’d told me: “It’s is the hardest, most challenging […]
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Once upon a time there was a little girl who believed in happy endings. She was an only child of two exceptional parents. They told her she could be or do anything in the world she wanted to be or do, and she believed them. She was the only grandchild on her father’s side. Because […]
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