Oh, Canada! On Canadian Nationalism
In light of last week’s spike in Google searches for “How to move to Canada” following the wins of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the recent Super Tuesday primary, here is a guest...
Category: foodandsociety
“What happened at the New Wil’ins?”: Cultural and Historical (Re)Construction in Beyoncé’s “Formation” videos
I am proud to present an unusual take on Beyonce’s “Formation” video: an academic close-reading of the video by independent scholar and guest blogger Byron King: “What happened at the New Wil’ins?”: Cultural and...
I Went to Portland, Oregon Last Week!
I went to Portland, Oregon last week for the first time ever. I Storifed my experience, and you can read it here!
Gilded Cherry In My Drink
Portland, I think I love you. Eating a gold-flecked cherry out of my fancy Manhattan #Portland
Happy Labor Day
In America, we tend to forget that Labor Day is a celebration of the improvement in the standard work day, and we tend to think of it as the end of summer, a great...
Retail Therapy: It’s What’s For Dinner!
The last few months of my life have been stressful, and to cope with it, I’ve been doing a lot of retail therapy. Unlike a lot of people, I usually do it at the grocery store.
In years past, my cabinets were bare with hints of tumbleweed. The shelves were empty. I never went to the grocery store. I joked with my college roommates that I ought to buy some plastic play food so that the kitchen shelves didn’t look so empty!
Rachael Ray Planting A Smooch on CeeLo Green at Feedback 2014
Since the South By Southwest festival ended, I’ve written a column for the Austin American-Statesman about it, and I’ve been going through the thousands of pictures that I took during the festival. So far...
Breakout Stars of SXSW ECO 2013: The Edible Cricket and 3D Food Printing!
We’re living in a food-oriented society right now, with more people seriously interested in food than ever before. So it shouldn’t come as much surprise that the breakout stars of the third year of...
Since You Didn’t Ask: HEB Allendale – W4M
Photo Credit: Steve Hopson HEB Allendale – W4M Date: 2013-01-13, 6:34PM I just left HEB off 2222 and burnet and I am absolutely convinced that every sexy man in Austin was in that store...
