Latest Tweets:
Put on Your Reddest Lipstick and Move (On), Musee Rodin, Paris
How to reduce puffy eyes? Put on your reddest lipstick and move (on), Musee Rodin, Paris #travel
Or, Seven Ways to Reduce Puffy Eyes.I sprained my little four-chambered muscle in Paris, not terribly easy to mend in a city that’s all la vie en rose and stripey-teed couples canoodling and a quiet underpinning of jazz always in the air. But these seven…
So to reference a tradition begun by the illustrious Melody Kramer when she was in this hot seat, our #bestthingallweek was — without question — the arrival of our new intern, Molly Seavy-Nesper. In chorus, all together now: Hi, Molly.
We asked Molly to find a way to bid you all a lovely Memorial Day Weekend and here this very useful (and educational!) chart of literary and cinematic cocktails was her pleasure because, well, cocktails! Movies! Literature!
Drink up. We’re out.
via Pop Chart Lab
Our week was great because we
Overdrive (Weekdays 4-6 PM): Feminist Wednesday
FAAIM: Kim Turley is one of the organizers from the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM). Its mission is to promote media by and about Asian Americans.She along with Lakshmi Rengarajan, Founder & Director of events at Me So Far join us in studio. Me So Far is a dating…
Sheep Lawnmowers in Paris
Sheep Lawnmowers in Paris #travel
Named for the palace that no longer exists since succumbing to revolutionary forces of the Paris Commune, the Jardin des Tuileries stretches from the foot of the Louvre to the obelisk of Place de la Concorde and further to the Champs-Elysées.
Cooling my…
Can’t Travel Without: a Small Notebook and Pen
Indispensable during my travels was my small, purse-sized notebook where I wrote many of my…
On the Street: UndocuAsians Come Out
Asians are a driving force behind migration to the U.S. and the demographic shifts; 40 percent of all migrants to the U.S. hail from Asia, and 40 percent of Asian Americans were not born in the U.S. What’s more, 1.2 million of the country’s 18 million Asian Americans are undocumented, according to the Asian American Justice Center.
So who are the country’s undocumented Asian American youth? They’re students and granddaughters and big brothers. They’re all over the country. Sitting next to you in class. Riding the bus alongside you. Probably dating your cousins. And if the latest social media campaign from the undocumented youth contingent of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is any indication, they’re a seriously hip crowd committed to social justice.
Raise Our Story, organized by the Asian-American undocumented youth group RAISE and launched this week, will collect and highlight stories of undocumented Asian-American youth to highlight the many faces of immigration. As the immigration reform bill heats up, RAISE youth organized the initiative to make sure that the immigration reform debate includes the stories and voices of Asian immigrants, “who are often overlooked in the narrative surrounding immigration reform,” they said in a statement. But organizers also hope the project empowers the Asian American immigrant community to speak their stories aloud.
Share yours on Facebook, at Twitter via @raiseourstory, and on Tumblr, where you can read the stories of the folks whose photos are included below.
(via titotito)
You feel hopeless and alone. I understand how you may feel but I know for a fact you’re wonderful and worth it. You’re not wasting oxygen or space because nothing would be the same. If you ever need someone to talk to I’m here. Stay strong for me you can do this, I believe in you beautiful.
❀✌☀
(Source: wedanceonair, via erosfreespirit)
Culinary historian and author of the book “Man Eats Dog: Hot Dog Culture in America” Bruce Kraig joined Shantell & Luis in studio. He, along with photographer and professor Patty Carroll, talk about their book which tells a history of not just the hot dog in Chicago, but in America.
Check out manbitesdogbook.com :)
Jerky Next Exit
In the desert of the American West, on an interstate highway in an American rental car (a Chevy), during a road trip with a Midwestern co-pilot (me). Everything about this was so very American, except my friend, the Frenchie driving.
“What is that?” He gestured toward a billboard we were nearing.
Jerky Next Exit.
“You don’t know what jerky is? Beef jerky?!” I glanced over. No sarcasm there.
Often I write about the little things I find fascinating when I travel to foreign places or locales not my own: a washer/dryer in one amazing (and little!) machine, the smell of durian, holding a slippery, raw herring by the tail as I lower it slowly into my mouth.
But it’s just as satisfying for me to share what is familiar and ordinary to me with my visitors: road trip beef jerky, cooking oil aerosol sprays, Chicago-style hot dogs and the array of mustards available at any grocery store. Things that are so familiar that I would hardly guess that, for someone else, they may be delightful curiosities from abroad.
If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”
Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.
“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”
The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.
Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people’s houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.
Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.
From top to bottom:
Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).
Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.
Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.
The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.
Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).
Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).
Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).
Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).
Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.
(via aprilcake)
Why You Should Be A Writer
CAUTION: Immortal Unicorn At PlayWant to be a writer? Here’s why you should try.
Necessary supplies
The cool on the forest floor I was grateful for because we were climbing so hard. We took clothes, bottles of water, some food (dried mangoes and meat, biscuits, two bars of chocolate), our tent and sleeping bags and a little bit of hope. Not that there was a lot of hope, and it was light to carry.
