2017 is fast approaching, and with it, a slew of expectations that it will somehow treat us better than the past year. My own 2016 was filled with highs and lows. Highs: I got to travel more (and often for free) than I have in ages. I moved to a new city. I got more work published than ever before...
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It’s been over a year since many of us bid adieu to some of our favorite imaginary friends: the cast of Mad Men. It was a bittersweet ending, filled with sad goodbyes, surprising new couples, pleasantly unexpected plot twists, and a semi-ambiguous ending (spoiler alert: he totally came back and...
I’m a huge fan of board games. I still have my original Guess Who?, Monopoly, and Clue in my garage, though I woefully am unsure of what happened to my Ask Zandar. So when I saw this video about a new board game that’s meant to piss off little girls, I was, well, curious. Presenting, The Glass...
Last night, Pearl Jam returned to South Florida (at the BB&T Center in Sunrise), twenty years since they’d played Broward County, and twenty-two since their first Miami performance (a show that included personal favorites like “Once,” and closed out with the ever-so-crowd-pleasing...
It’s Twitter’s 10th anniversary! Or tweeteversary! Birthtweet? Tweetbirth? Whatever, the point is, they’ve been around for 10 whole years. That’s mindboggling to me. Feels like only yesterday I was traipsing around AOL chat rooms looking for other friends who shared my love of Marilyn...
This morning I woke up to this story on my feed about Saturday Night Live covering the topic of feminism. The sketch, which featured Ariana Grande and most if not all the women on SNL, was about how the group wanted to write a feminist song but how it got a bit problematic on the way to include...
After watching last week’s Oscars, I decided to look into how many of my fellow Latinas have actually won the supposedly prestigious award. According to Wikipedia, NO LATINAS HAVE EVER WON FOR BEST ACTRESS. None. Zero. Zip. Do you hear me, chavalas? That means any of us right now could...
NOTE: I’d like to preface this by stating that I have yet to read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, so I’m unsure of how much the film adaptation veers from the original story. Also, there WILL be spoilers. You’ve been warned. Anna Karenina is the tragic story of what happens when a woman is...
For the past few months, Netflix kept recommending I watch a program called Rita. I didn’t know anything about the show, except it had high ratings and starred a blonde woman who reminds me of a Danish Linda Hamilton. I kept watching other shows until one night, after binge-watching all of...
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