What I read Oct 4
- Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started., Washington Post
- Unexpected New Plan for Domino Brings in Light With Glass Box Nestled in Landmarked “Ruin”, Brownstoner
- ANTIQUE SEED PACKETS
- Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because They Don’t Count Black Lives, The Root
- Why Have So Many People Never Heard Of The MOVE Bombing?, NPR
- I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing, NPR
- Black-ish Taught Me More About Slavery in 22 Minutes Than My Entire Education (Plus, That Roots Cartoon Was Epic), The Root
- Ginsburg Slaps Gorsuch in Gerrymandering Case, The New Yorker
What I read today - Oct 3
- The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”, The New Yorker
- The Peculiar Poetry of Paris’s Lost and Found, The New Yorker
- What Does the Next Wave of Development Mean for Bushwick Artists?, hyperallergic
- It’s lit! How film finally learned to light black skin, the guardian
- Designer of Papyrus font reacts to Ryan Gosling’s SNL takedown, It's nice that
- Branded in Memory
- This Book is a Planetarium (<-it is! it is!), Kelli Anderson
her work is the bee's knees and so lovely - Madagascar Plans to Amend Discriminatory Law That Fuels Statelessness, VOA News
What I read today - OCT 2
- Mailing Babies: When It Was Legal to Send Children Through the U.S Postal Service in the Early 20th Century, vintages
- Flower Arranging at Home, the kavanaugh report
- Let Little Kids Spell Things Terribly , lifehacker
- By age 3, inequality is clear: Rich kids attend school. Poor kids stay with a grandparent, washington post
- The Rise of Picture-Perfect Motherhood, Bazaar
What I read today - Sept 29
- My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest, Yes Magazine
- When LBJ’s closest aide was caught in a gay sex sting, the president caved — the first lady stood up, Timeline
- The most modern woman of Medieval Europe was a queen by birth, a warrior and murderer by legend, Timeline
- IKEA Buys TaskRabbit—the Silicon Valley Startup That Saves You from Doing It Yourself, Architectural Digest
- 10 Tips For Living Minimally Longterm, Design Sponge
- Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up, Bazaar
What I read today - Sept 28
- ‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car., NY Times
- ACLU and New York Law School Report Gives Historical Context to the City’s Persisting Food Deserts, Edible Manhattan
- Peach Jam with Brown Sugar and Bourbon, Food in Jars
- How-To: Propagating Native Plants with Nancy Shaw, The Plant Hunter
- David Holmgren’s Permaculture Revolution, The Plant hUnter
- Permaculture, Wikipedia
- How America's Most Integrated School Segregated Again, City Lab
- The Sky-High Ambition of Manolo Blahnik, The New Republic
- With Liberty and Sans Serif for All, Brand New
What I read today Sept 20
- 5 Ways To Breathe New Life Into Vintage Pieces, Design Sponge
- Juggalo Blues: Their Beef With FBI No Laughing Matter, The American Conservative
- The coming-of-age con, Aeon
What I read today Sept 19
- All the Lies About the Origins of ‘Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire’, Atlas Obscura
- The Long and Bumpy History of Corduroy, Atlas Obscura
The article titles are getting more punny - Macramé is the knotty trend millennials Instagrammed back from the dead, Timeline
- Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants, Washington Post
The headline is a little mean spirited
what I read today Sept 18
- How Motherhood Affects Creativity, The Atlantic
- A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France, The Atlantic
- Dime Savings Bank’s Historic Facade Remains as Additions Demo’d to Prep for First Supertall, Brownstoner
- Hillary for America Design 2016
Impressive body of work - For Centuries, People Celebrated a Little Boy’s First Pair of Trousers, atlas obscura
- Why Houston Housing Is Poised to Get More Expensive and Unequal, City Lab
- The Juggalo March Is Not a Joke, City Lab
- The End Of The High Line Era, Fast Co
- The Suburb of the Future, Almost Here, NY Times
- Torrid’s NYFW Show Reaffirmed Fashion’s Disdain for Fat People, Racked
what i read today sept 15
- ‘Fixer Upper’ Couple Blasted On Social Media Over New Target Line, HuffPost
I watched a lot of this show during my maternity leave. Personally, I can't figure out what difference it makes as to which bathroom I use. - The World’s Most Mysterious Medieval Manuscript May No Longer Be a Mystery, atlas obscura
- The History of Passport Photos, From ‘Anything Goes’ to Today’s Mugshots, atlas obscura
- Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For, NY Times
- Message for Internet Society, from the other side of the wall, enjambre digital
- Flamingos In The Men's Room: How Zoos And Aquariums Handle Hurricanes, NPR
- An Encyclopedia of New York City Transit Design, CityLab
- What Urban Doctors Need to Understand About Patients' Health, CityLab
- In the 1920s, this man brought marriage counseling to America to save the white race, Timeline
what i read today sept 14
- A Brief History of Knolling, AKA Overhead Photography, designsponge
- Do Artists and Designers Have an Obligation To Be Political?, designsponge
Totally offputting reading "Art is disruption." Why must everything be phrased in a capitalist, techy sort of way to give value to something? - De Blasio Is Getting Four More Years, Now What’ll He Do With Them?, Village Voice
- Here Is Everything Wrong With 'Bodega,' the Startup That Destroys Bodegas, CityLab
What I read today - Sept 12
- No, I’m from New York, The New Yorker
- Historic Clinton Hill Mansion, One-Time Civil War Veterans’ Spot, Coming Down for Apartments, brownstoner
- Where the Mayoral Candidates Stand on Housing, city limits
- City Council Approves De Blasio’s 2nd Neighborhood Rezoning, city limits
- Greater than Ever?, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
- Surveying Post-Bloomberg New York With Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff, NY Mag
- Drugmakers Slam Ohio AG's Suit Over Opioid Crisis, Law360
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Scar, The American Conservative
- The rise of Trump isn't all about racism, The Week
What I read today - sept 8-11
The First White President, The Atlantic
- Our Guide to Electing a Brooklyn DA (based on their commitment to ending mass incarceration), Medium
- Thinx Founder Wore Breast Pumps Around Burning Man and Shared Milk With Burners, Slate
- Do Conversations About Race Belong in the Classroom?, The Atlantic
- Women Are Taking the Economic Hit From America’s Child Care Deserts, Slate
- Child Care Desert. org
- One of the most common questions in American small talk is considered rude in much of the world, quartz
- Cure Yourself of Tree Blindness, ny times
what i read today- sept 5
- Munroe Bergdorf on the L’Oréal racism row: ‘It puzzles me that my views are considered extreme’, the guardian
- An American Dialect Dictionary Is Dying Out. Here Are Some Of Its Best Words., huff post
- The Hidden Memories of Plants, Atlas Obscura
- The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic, open culture
- Elaine Welteroth, Teen Vogue’s Refashionista, NY Times Magazine
- Creative Lives — Artist Shantell Martin on how she started from scratch twice over, in Tokyo and then New York , lecture in progress
what i read today - sept 1
- Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” Is the First Pure Piece of Trump-Era Pop Art, slate
- How I Infiltrated a White Pride Facebook Group and Turned It into 'LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama', Vice
- Crown Heights Woman Arrested While Waging Noise Complaint War On Pre-Carnival Festivities, gothamist
- Ceci N’est Pas CBGB, this recording
- Hurricane Harvey Shifts Political Winds in Washington, NYT
What I read today - August 31
- What Should Be Done with America’s Abandoned Malls?, architectural digest
- The Search for the World’s Most Enchanting Greenhouses, atlas obscura
- Yes, That's a Huge Floating Mass of Live Fire Ants in Texas, the atlantic
- What are landlords required to provide in New York apartments?, curbed
- Found in an NYC Junk Shop: Forgotten Postcards between Two Haiku Masters, messy nessy chic