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A Review of Total Yuppie's PleasantriesDeep into summer, I have been hiking, painting, and spending most of my days outside riding my bicycle or walking my dog. I have rolled down all the windows of my car and turned the music up. That is how Punk Rock should be played. Sometimes, I feel like if you play it loud enough the words will tattoo onto your heart. I stumbled across this band, Total Yuppies, early in July on Bandcamp for their album release and it has really reflected the feeling of summer fully. It also gives me that nostalgia of my younger high school and college days where I listened to Against Me!, New Found Glory, and Piebald all at the same time. The summers that for me were filled up with showing up to underground shows in sketchy run down restaurants or a friend’s basement and even though it was 100 degrees outside, I wore jeans, a band t-shirt, and a blazer that matched. I held hands with my friends while we sat on questionable couches talking about how to battle heart break, schoolwork, and our dreams. I can’t say that I miss the blazers or the heartbreaks that happened back in those days, but this band makes me miss the music that surrounded it.
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Sandalwood LoveSandalwood reminds me of entering homes with objects from faraway lands. My aunt and uncle had such a home as this, with artifacts collected in world travels scenting the almost sacred space. When I entered the familiar yet exotic realm, my child's imagination and consciousness expanded to include worlds beyond the tiny one I occupied.
As Deniz Ataman, managing editor at Perfumer & Flavorist put it in an email, "At the root of it, perfumery is about sharing the essence of the Earth's spirit and creating beauty for others to enjoy." The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Hopeful Gray Clouds: On Love Won't Make You CryQuail Bell Magazine loves spotlighting new treasures in the music industry. The latest one is no different.
The New Jersey native Chloe Baker — known as bitter’s kiss — is an emerging indie pop artist with a sizable cult following on social media. I was given the opportunity to experience bitter’s kiss’ tracks on her new EP. The artist has been compared to the likes of Sixpence and Regina Spektor. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
The Illuminated CrossBy Leah Mueller QuailBellMagazine.com *Editor's Note: Originally appeared in the anthology What Does it Mean to be White in America? by 2Leaf Press. Summer in New Orleans lasts a very long time, especially when you're nineteen and far from home. I lived alone, in a sparsely furnished apartment that was located in the posh Garden District. The view from my bay window was breathtaking. I could see banana trees through the ornate metal porch grating while I lay on my nineteen dollar foam rubber mattress in front of the window and listened to music on my rented stereo. This gave my life a feeling of gentility that it sorely lacked in all other respects.
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The Low Man in the Blue SuitThe Republican National Convention had the house band play “Station to Station”: David Bowie song from the period where he was coked out of his gourd, getting arrested with Nazi paraphernalia, and claiming a witch was stealing his semen. I’m telling you this in case you were wondering how the Convention was going. Like much of the Trump campaign, there’s a curiosity whether this is willful trolling, a gentleman’s game call to let the enlightened know his secret authoritarian agenda, or a sincere attempt to give Trump the largesse and symbols of a dictator. I’m not sure. I just know “Station to Station” is a weird choice, and the symbol of the Thin White Duke’s amoral nationalism fits where we are more than the culture war’s fears of a feminist witch in a “Black Lives Matter” shirt draining a virile conservative male of his fluids and flushing them down a drain pipe. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
The Racist Reality Of Police BrutalityAs the investigation surrounding the Baton Rouge police killings unfold, police investigations have unearthed a jaw-dropping discovery: The assailant responsible for shooting and injuring Baton Rouge officers is Gavin Eugene Long, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq. Montrell Jackson, one of slain Baton Rouge officers, made a status update gives us unique insight into how he felt about being a POC on the police force. He wrote, "In uniform I get nasty hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat." Law enforcement's failure to acknowledge the reality of POC endangers the lives of those who strive to do good by serving on the force. That includes POC who wear the blue uniform as well as those who don't.
In the end, police brutality is everyone's problem. If #BlackLivesMatter to you at all, then you won't deny that racism is still an issue in the police force that's literally killing us. Anyone who chooses to support blue lives over black lives is entirely missing the point of #BlackLivesMatter. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Why The Impact Of Bernie Sanders' Campaign Will Last Past The Polls And RalliesBy Gretchen Gales @GGalesQuailBell QuailBellMagazine.com *Editor's Note: First appeared in the Odyssey. With Hillary Clinton declaring herself the (at this time still unofficial) nominee for the Democratic Party, it has left many Bernie supporters feeling a little down, wondering if this is the end of his presidential journey. Some have even gone as far as to say Sanders’ campaign was a complete waste and doomed from the start. The 74 year-old energetic powerhouse has nonetheless jumped from state to state winning over college students and other millennial voters. Sanders was even endorsed by a list of celebrities, including but not limited to Miley Cyrus, Danny Devito and Sarah Silverma
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Why They’re Killing Us: The Reality Behind Police BrutalityThis problem is deep. It’s deeper than officer selection, it’s deeper than training, and it’s way deeper than holding an inquiry with the best of intentions.
Because it’s about instinct, which is about indoctrination. It’s about the training that each and every one of us goes through every day when we’re told, implicitly or explicitly, that black children are unruly. That black women are aggressive and welfare queens. That black men are dangerous and criminal. That we are a threat. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
A Small SuccessBoston shouldn’t be this hot in May. Even in the shade our clothes are heavy with sweat, though the sun mercifully has begun its descent, casting the shadow of the JetBlue sponsored stage over us while Courtney Barnett is playing.
“Who knew she was so sexy?” I ask my friends over and over. The night before we had caught a glimpse of her on Jimmy Fallon from the luxury of free cable at the Boston Days Inn, and I said the same thing, pointing out that we both have the same haircut and wondering what it meant, cosmically speaking. My two friends politely ignored me. I’m considering texting my mom to tell her I’m gay now because of an Australian girl in jeans and a trucker cap wielding a guitar. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Three Days of Terror: Where is Poetic Justice?By Hardeep Sabharwal QuailBellMagazine.com The prime minister cannot die. This was the only thought that came to my 8-year-old mind when I heard the news in a stationary shop near my school.
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When Guns Can't Protect POC From Police BrutalityDespite what pro-gun rhetoric would love to make you think, not even guns can protect POC from police brutality. Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association maintained a deafening silence about the lives of black gun owners who lost their lives to police misconduct. How can #BlackLivesMatter to the NRA if they hesitate to support minority gun owners' rights, the modern civil rights movement, and police reform all at once?
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A Hydrosol Gin Cocktail ExperimentI've been obsessed with gin on the one hand and hydrosols on the other for a little while now, and mixing them together seemed only natural, though they may strike the uninitiated as strange bedfellows. Hydrosols and alcohols (as well as essential oils) are all distilled. So what is distillation?
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Looking for SylviaI think I first met her in a dream-she, a teenager and I, a child. We must have sat in the park, among the narcissi and azaleas, or on a beach, soaking up the sun, with a picnic basket filled with half-eaten sandwiches between us. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
When Transphobic Christians Sound Like KKK FliersIf you know someone who supports bathroom bills and transgender discrimination, then you know someone who sounds like a Klu Klux Klan flier.
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Revolutionary WomenThe 4th of July is all about stars and stripes, fireworks, picnics, and thinking about the Founding Fathers. But have you stopped to consider the women once behind the scenes of forming a brand-new country? Celebrate the United States' diverse history with just a handful of amazing women!
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