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 It's tough stuff picking a dinner spot in the Hamptons when there are so many fabulous options. But if you're a fan of trying something new, relishing savory food, enjoying electric cocktails, and taking in gorgeous décor in a relaxed environment, I have a suggestion: El Turco, a new Turkish restaurant in East Hampton. Known for its Miami location, El Turco is Michelin and Quail Bell approved!
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By Amy Lee “All good things are wild and free” - Henry David Thoreau
My subscription box obsession helps me to survive the four months of harsh winter. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
On April 1st, 2021, Netflix released a seven episode series known as Worn Stories, based off of the book by Emily Spivack. The show focuses on the stories people associate with sentimental items of clothing, or the lack of clothing at all. The mini series opens in a nudist community. This may seem like a strange choice for a series about clothing, but the choice to be nude is in many ways connected to an individual’s connection with clothing.
Each episode focuses on a specific theme such as growing up or lost and found and involves a series of interviews with people about their clothing. The initial episode begins in a nudist community seemingly largely for the shock value, but also tells the stories of the individuals within the Florida community and their reasonings for their choices to go nude. This centers around an older couple who choose to go entirely nude except for shoes even when doing woodworking! The couple maintains that being nude has helped them find community and become their full selves without the confinement and restriction of clothing. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
 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 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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 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.
 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.
 From the album’s first track “the 1” opening with the line “I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit” Taylor Swift let us know that this surprise album of Summer 2020, would be nothing like she had ever released before and there would be no holding back. Since the initial release of her first album Taylor Swift in 2006, Swift has become a household name and showed her wide range of musical prowess from country, to pop, to her newest endeavor into the folk genre with her most emotionally ambitious album yet: Folklore.
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 “This is stupid,” I said to my mother after reading her a deleted excerpt of this essay over FaceTime. For more than an hour the night before this deadline, I worked to convince my mom that I could not write an essay on being creative, especially not during the pandemic.
“But what about those postcards you made?” she insisted. “No one wants to hear about that, Mom,” I said back. “Not even I want to hear about that.” The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By Sara Swallow
VCU, my university, extended Spring Break a week when COVID cases first started rising. I remember my class group-chats going off about how COVID would be gone soon and we’d be back in Hibbs Hall listening to lectures in no time. My professors made jokes like Don’t get COVID while you’re gone! Looking back, everything seems like a joke. |
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