Marching in Time: Football, music, and racism with Willie Hill
It’s difficult to argue against Beyoncé’s greatness, it is true. But skimming through clips of marching bands past elicits one big question about the Super Bowl halftime shows of today: with all the fireworks and special effects, have we strayed too far away from the...
@Work: The Fighter
Mike Tyson glares at the members of the boxing gym. Tyson’s tattooed face is printed on a poster, hung high on one wall, alongside the quotation: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Below the poster, a big wooden door swings open, and Jacob...
Resolve to Yoga: get started in 2016
A staggering 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail, and yogis can tell you why. These surface-level resolutions — get a gym membership, lose ten pounds, and the like — lack San Culpa, or deep-seated intention. In yoga, the phrase means that you set an intention in...
More Than Granola: With corporate chain stores selling natural foods, co-ops double down on community ties
Steve Alves rolls up an chair, sits down at his desk, and opens a spreadsheet of every food co-op in America. He has been compiling this list for years. As his finger flicks the scroll wheel, hundreds of rows spill upward on the monitor: co-ops in states like Idaho,...E-Edition
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