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 Now you and your friends and family can have fun exploring Art Deco architecture and design while creating your own Deco Dream City together, even when you can't be with one another. The Deco Dream City activity, brought to you by the Art Deco Society of New York, is broken into 4 helpful sections. Check out all of the videos, building crafts templates, and more here. 
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By Sara Swallow  Everyone loves Syllabus Week at the beginning of the semester. You can sit back and tip-toe back into the school environment without awakening too much stress or dealing with crazy deadlines. For most Humanities students, you know all about the required reading section on the syllabus. You'll see the list of books you have to buy/rent and know to read just enough of any title to get your participation points in during class discussions. Because let's be honest: You can't read everything—and sometimes you actually don't want to (like when you start a book you just can't stand to finish.) Sometimes the required essays, articles, and books don’t feel like an adequate use of your time but guess what? Your professors put those readings on your syllabus for a reason!
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 If you are an artist (musician, singer, athlete, illustrator) or want to be, you will need inspiration. The backbone of any artistic progress is copying and practice. YouTube gives millions the chance to appreciate and imitate specialists in their fields for free, so make use of it. Below are the top five YouTube accounts selected by Quail Bell Magazine for any beginning artist, blogger, or creative. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By Lina Romero  Ginny, driving her mother and brother (Diesel La Torraca) during episode one: Pilot. When Ginny & Georgia came out, everyone was calling it the new Gilmore Girls. Now that I’ve watched all 10 episodes, I find this couldn’t be further from the truth. However, the show has its own unique, Gen-Z charm and is well-cast and acted. Read on (at the risk of spoilers) for all my opinions. Trigger warning: Mentions of self-harm, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, domestic and sexual abuse. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
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Last year, Quail Bell Press & Productions produced the poetry film "Butterflies" as part of the Visible Poetry Project initiative. Through the initiative, the director Christine Sloan Stoddard was matched with the poet Teri Elam—two strangers who had never collaborated together before. The film went on to premiere during the most unusual National Poetry Month on record! But, luckily, with all eyes online, this meant that "Butterflies" had a captive audience. The film is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video UK and has been featured in CURA, a journal published by Fordham University, Sanctuary Magazine, the Huntington Beach Cultural Cinema Showcase, and NPower Network, a Roku channel. While the director has been asked to share a few words about the film, we wanted to ask Teri, who wrote the featured poem, and actress Disnie Sebastien, who stars in the film, to share their thoughts, too.
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 The true crime genre became popular in the late 2010’s and has since become a very unique cultural phenomenon. This genre consists of documentaries, podcasts, YouTube channels, and so much more to tell the stories of victims of murder or abduction or those who commit these atrocities. True crime documentaries feed into the natural human fascination of learning about what we are most afraid of. Generally, the genre focuses most heavily on the cases of violence against women and children. This genre also focuses heavily on the murder or abduction of young and conventionally attractive white women. There has been research about the heavy racial bias of the stories that get told within this genre.
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By: Sara Swallow Last year on March 7, 2020 I had the last dinner I would have in a restaurant for a long time. Thankfully, it was good food at Ramen Spot in RVA and good company. I’m pretty sure nothing beats freshly made ramen and tea when it’s still just a touch cold outside. I wasn’t wearing a mask at this point and we would be going into lockdown about a week later. When I saw on our local news channel that Virginia Governor Northam had just issued a stay-at-home order, I ran out to get seeds and gardening soil. Most people were running to get toilet paper but I knew I would need something to keep me busy. I went on ALL the walks, rain or shine.
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 Photo by Kate JonasThe latest style in interior design is following no set style at all. At least, that's the philosophy that Kate Jonas, an antique curator and interior designer based in Richmond, Virginia, lives by. “There is no trend,” she tells me over Zoom, while two symmetrical turquoise paintings in vintage gold frames hang behind her desk. “It is what you feel comfortable with in your home.” Jonas started working within the antique curation world after over 10 years as a bank teller and manager in Richmond,. At 22, Jonas plunged into the world of financial management and clients in crisis. “I could be dealing with a widower one minute, and the next, someone who's just gotten married,” she says. “You're changing hats constantly.” The job was not her passion, but taught her skills that would lead her to it. In 2016, Jonas sold her first five antique products on her Instagram @electriccurator and never looked back. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By Sara Swallow  In this interview, I asked Patricia ("Trish") Grisafi, a PhD, former English professor, and an admirer (and scholar) of Sylvia Plath, all about her interests in Plath and what inspired her to write a whole book about her. Grisafi’s book, Breaking Down Plath, is a must-have guide for middle and high school students, and a worthy investment for non-students who want to learn more about what Plath’s poems are about and what her poetry reveals. Go and check out her new book, Breaking Down Plath to learn more, but first, get a few insights from the author herself:
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By Lina Romero  My windowsill in my apartment with basil, morning glories, marigolds, a ruby ball cactus, spider plants, an orchid, and pothos propagates. I’ve loved plants for as long as I can remember, but growing up moving around, I wasn’t able to have a garden so I learned about houseplants from a young age. However most people aren’t experts, and with the current pandemic situation improving so slowly (who else is still waiting to get their vaccine?) plants are in high demand. They’re less work than a pet, they brighten up any living space, and they bring a touch of the outdoors indoors. So, for all my friends without green thumbs, below is my condensed list of the easiest plants to keep alive indoors. I’ve tried to include a variety of different looks and degrees of needs like sunlight for homes that get less or more of it.
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 Written In Arlington is the latest poetry anthology edited by Katherine E. Young, former poet laureate of Arlington, Virginia, and one of Northern Virginia's prominent poets. The anthology of poems by 87 poets makes any reader want to move to Arlington or at least pay a visit due to the anthology's prose and lyrical poems describing the country's charm and humble natural beauty. This urge to get moving does not come from the anthology's descriptions of Arlington's heavy traffic on Lee Highway (though idling in traffic is a major theme in the collection) but rather from the diverse poets and their unique abilities to capture Arlington's intimate moments. The anthology’s backdrop of flourishing forests and the idyllic Potomac River contributes to the longing attitude readers feel while reading this anthology.
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 For most of the world, 2020 was an incredibly difficult year. Social distancing regulations to combat the coronavirus pandemic mandated that the vast majority of people would be working from home. For college students, this meant that they would suddenly be attending college online, via Zoom. This took away many of the most vital social aspects of the college experience.
I transferred to Virginia Commonwealth University during the spring semester of 2020, meaning that I had approximately eight weeks of a ‘normal’ college experience before the whole world seemed to stop and everything moved online. For me, this made it incredibly difficult to feel connected to VCU and make friends. I was simply attending classes, but I didn’t really feel as though I was going to college. I finished out the spring semester feeling incredibly burnt out and defeated, wondering if college was even the right place for me. I dreaded the start of the fall semester because I had no idea what to expect for a semester that took place entirely online. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
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By Sara Swallow  As a graduating senior, it’s normal to look back and see what I did well in my time at college, and the mistakes that still make me cringe a little when I think about them. Reflection can help a lot of people so here are the five biggest lessons I’ve learned as an English major:
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 I originally discovered Olivia Gatwood’s slam poetry performances on the Youtube channel of Button Poetry. I was immediately transfixed by the rawness of her poetry and the way she could captivate an audience when she performed. Gatwood doesn’t hold back, tackling subjects such as sexual assault, her own sex and sexuality, and the people in her life whom she has loved, with grace and an effortless demeanor.
Life of the Party was released in 2019 as Gatwood’s second collection of poetry, following her first release New American Best Friend. I’ll admit, poetry has never been my favorite genre to read; however, as soon as I picked up Life of the Party, I couldn’t put it down. Largely, this collection is devoted to the female experience, focusing specifically upon the violence against women and the True Crime genre, which largely centers around women — specifically white women as their stories often get the most coverage, far more than women of color — who are the victims of violence. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By Amy Lee  Ah Toy is one badass Asian female character. Didn't think that existed? Yet you see her brilliantly portrayed by Olivia Cheng in Cinemax's Warrior. Set in San Francisco Chinatown, 1878, this Bruce Lee-inspired TV show was recently revived by Shannon Lee upon discovering her father’s notes and drawings.
Unlike Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen, Ah Toy doesn’t depend on dragons nor a romantic male lead to complete her causes. She sashays her own swishing sword, unleashing retributive justice at night. Ironically, she does so knowing her sexist and racist world is unlikely to suspect an Asian female is capable of wielding such power. By day, she is fearless as the Madam of her brothel. She is also an astute businesswoman who invests in property by fronting a “Mr. Patterson” as her Caucasian business partner. She survives and works within the unfair patriarchal world which she was born into. |
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