New and Cool
Shack to the Future
“Is there somewhere around here I can get a quick lunch, like a half-smoke, maybe?” The question catches the man pushing his Fayette Street door open for fresh air off-guard.
“Sure, there’s a Five Guys two blocks that way.”
Are you kidding me? You live three blocks from the greatest, oldest, stubbornest carryout in all of Alexandria, [...]
Fashion
Make Old Clothes Fab: Jean Modification»
WITH THE CURRENT DRIVE to be green and spend less money, thrift-store shopping is now eco-chic. But what if those Gap skinnies or Seven bootcuts don’t fit, are out of date, or are just revolting? Don’t die of barfness — reconstruct.
Did Levi Strauss have skirts, appliques and raw hems in mind when he invented jeans? [...]
Arts
Let’s Go Out to ‘Lobby’: The Kennedy Center»
Ricky Subritzky (the Kiwi) and Fiona MacDonald (the Aussie) have collaborated before on political pieces, and Subritzky doesn’t think it’s strange at all for the artists to take note of America’s political phenomena: “People seem a bit surprised — with New Zealand being on the other side of the world — that we’re interested. But the whole world’s interested.” He said the installation is inspired by what he and MacDonald see as the huge changes sweeping America’s political landscape; despite pundits’ rumblings about party schisms and military disasters, “Lobby” is a hopeful work.
Blog
I slay myself.»
Updated the site today with a piece from last week’s Getting Ahead (aka the section I edit, aka “my baby,” aka “I love this thing probably far more than necessary.”) What didn’t make it onto the site is a headline I wrote for another freelancer’s Change Artist piece. The guy’s a tour guide in D.C., [...]