We’ve all been there: You meet someone where the chemistry is so on point that you can’t seem to resist getting into the tangled web that is friends with benefits. You know s/he’s wrong for you and you both know that a relationship is not going to be your happy ending. In fact, you may […]
Art comes in many forms and sometimes people don’t always “get it.” But for University of Buffalo art student Ashley Powell, the point was to get a reaction when she posted “White Only” and “Black Only” signs over the drinking fountains in the school’s Clemens Hall. The Spectrum, an independent student publication at UB, reported that Powell admitted to posting […]
For some families, creativity—or possibly basic cognitive learning and motor skills—skips a generation. (Examples include the spawn of Rod Stewart, Demi Moore and/or Lorenzo Lamas.) For others, the DNA decides to cluster together and generate a super-powered pedigree of icons, inventors and innovators. (Might we interest you in a Spielberg or Coppola?) With that in […]
I don’t care what inspirational quotes on Instagram tell you: life is fucking hard. If you start to think too much about the rolling trash fire that is the world — terrorism, prejudice, disease, your utility bill in the winter — it can be hard to stay zen. Sometimes there is no choice but to let […]
Right now, there are two insanely restrictive abortion bills sitting on Ohio Governor John Kasich’s desk. One, called the “Heartbeat Bill,” would ban abortion as soon as a heartbeat can be detected, which is usually around six weeks. The other would ban abortion at 20 weeks. They’re both terrible, and the stakes are ridiculously high, so Ohio residents […]
As Election Day nears, almost 40 percent of Americans have already cast their ballots by mail, and right now, Five Thirty Eight predicts there is only a 0.5 percent chance of a tie in the electoral college between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But considering how the commanding lead Clinton held over […]
Out of all the “whoa, what? huh?” things Democratic and Republican nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump said during the debate tonight, both candidates’ comments on race and the police came under additional scrutiny. Given the terrifying state of police brutality right now and for entirely too long before that, anything either candidate said was bound to carry more […]
Maria Bamford’s critically lauded Netflix show Lady Dynamite gets just about everything right—except for an unfortunate strain of biphobia. Created by Bamford, along with Pam Brady (South Park) and Mitchell Hurwitz (Arrested Development), the show is a fictionalized version of the alt comic’s life. Lady Dynamite is such a big-hearted, humanistic look at what it’s […]
On Monday, Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential somewhat-hopeful Bernie Sanders returned to the Senate just to vote in favor of what he called “no-brainer” gun control measures. Naturally, the Republican-dominated Senate knocked these gun control votes down, but hearing about Sanders back in Congress was refreshing. After all, Sanders has a long history of doing some […]
