So you want to be a famous musician?
May. 23, 2013
The great weight debate
May. 21, 2013
Allure magazine is feeling the backlash after printing the weight of Star Trek Into Darkness star Zoe Saldana on the cover of their June issue.
"115 lbs of grit and heartache" reads the headline.
Chicago bike culture 101
May. 17, 2013
Just in time for summer bike season, Walk Score (the company best known for rating the walkability of neighborhoods across the country) awarded Chicago the number 10 spot on its list of most bikeable American cities. Sure, we lag behind Portland, San Francisco and New York, but we beat Austin! Hipsters unite.
Of course, not all Chicago cyclists are hip young people riding vintage Schwinns or fixie conversions with neon aerospokes. Some are newbies (a.k.a the people who had no idea what I was referring to just now), while others are hard-core athletes accustomed to flying down Lakeshore Drive at maximum velocity.
Riding the 'L,' an epiphany, longing — need — for therapy
May. 16, 2013
While riding on the bus or the "L," have you ever seen an ad for a psychological center (are you depressed? anxious? etc.) contemplated calling the number, then quickly averted your eyes, embarrassed that you even considered it?
"Do I really need therapy?" you ask yourself, realizing in that very moment that yes, you really do.
Then you wonder, "Am I the only person who has ever wrestled with these crazy thoughts?
Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy
May. 14, 2013
Angelina Jolie may be one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the silver screen. In real life, she seems almost too perfect: an alien-like presence of unattainable sexuality (ask any geekboy who first ogled her curves in Lara Croft Tomb Raider) whom many women have been quick to hate despite her outstanding work as a UN Ambassador and comittment to feminist causes around the world.
Perhaps this idea of Jolie as an aloof ice-princess being shattered overnight is why her recent reveal of a double mastectomy feels all the more inspiring and important.
Elizabeth Smart decries abstinence-only sex ed, and her message hits home
May. 8, 2013
Before Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Berry's young daughter were discovered in the basement of a Cleveland home on Monday, held captive by a neighborhood man for over 10 years, the nation was captivated by another abducted girl-turned miracle story: the case of Elizabeth Smart.
In 2002, 14-year-old Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom in Salt Lake City. She was found nine months later, only 18 miles from her home, and her captors (who also raped her repeatedly and