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PART I: Marijuana as a Spiritual Tool
A deeper look into the use of substances in spiritual practice today. How would it feel to be born again? If you had the chance to fade back into the darkness of your mother’s womb, and to experience every human […]
Where Everybody Is: TCKs and the Twilight Zone
No matter what country I was living in while growing up, there was one television show that was constant and served as “comfort TV”: Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone and it so happens that the first episode touches on […]
Record Store Day (April 18th): Vinyl is Back!
‘The Record Collection Revival’ By: Katie Murphy Did you know that today, April 18th, is the official ‘Record Store Day?!’ It’s time to get out and support your local record store and recording artists. Vinyl collecting is not something that […]
Why ‘Mean Girls’ Cady Heron is the Perfect Global Nomad
“So if you’re from Africa, why are you white?” This is one of the most frequently quoted lines from the cultural movie phenomenon, Mean Girls, which traces the transition of Cady Heron, African sweetheart, to an American high school “mean […]
The Global Impact of THE CLASH: “The Only Band that Mattered’
The Global Impact of the ‘Only Band that Mattered’ Somewhere between the 1960s when Bob Dylan performed folk songs about the civil unrest and racial tensions brimming in the United States, and the mid 1980s when the successful Live Aid […]
RELATIONSHIPS: Tell me your Insecurities…
Now, I don’t know about you – but if a stranger said that to me, I’d cringe. I think it’s safe to say the majority of us have some insecurities. They can be large or small, many or few. It doesn’t […]
Does reality TV encourage cultural and gender stereotypes?
It is no secret that reality TV is popular worldwide — which is why in the last decade it has become a multimillion dollar industry. From social experiment shows like Survivor, to documentary style reality shows like MTV’s True Life […]
Lacking Diversity in the Modeling World
Have you ever flipped through a magazine or saw a commercial and thought the models looked predominantly caucasian? Unfortunately, race has been a recurring issue in the modeling industry since its start, either showing under representation of a race or […]