A native of San Antonio, TX, and a non-traditional student at Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in San Antonio, Adán Medrano needed a name for the food he grew up… Read the rest of the article: The Native American roots of Texas Mexican food serve up tacos, feminism and cultural resistance

Perhaps the phrase "curious culinary concoction" is both a bit redundant and over confident when discussing any new fast food menu item. This is not simply to invoke the Slow… Read the rest of the article: Papa John's Pizza Bowls pose the important question "what is food?"

Jordan Sanchez filmed Fetish in 2017, his last video as a professional skateboarder and team rider for Welcome Skateboards. As reported in 2021 Jenkem interview, "Today, Jordan is a family… Read the rest of the article: Former professional skateboarder builds house, only to wall-ride it

Did you know the second "t" in Toronto is silent? I didn't (either?) for about 80% of the time of my existence on the earth – the beginning marked by… Read the rest of the article: The second T in Toronto is silent—isn't it?

I cannot get this cute little doggo's oddly creepy and oddly mezzzmeriiiiiziiiiiing image out of my mind. I remember seeing Clive Barker's Hellraiser in 1987. Pinhead is seared, no, nailed… Read the rest of the article: Meet "Heckraiser", the world's cutest Clive Barker fan

He might say "I would prefer not to." Written in the middle of the 19th Century, two years after the publication of the magisterial novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville's short… Read the rest of the article: What would Bartleby the Scrivener click on?

No peyote tourism, gracias. The effect and affect of sadness, regret, and lament transcends language. The musical language of the Blues, the unrequited, the sacrifice and betrayal circulates the heartache… Read the rest of the article: Real de Catorce performs the blues en Español

The struggle of railway workers was at least three years in the making. The recently-announced agreement between freight rail workers and the corporations that oversee their labor contracts, reached after… Read the rest of the article: 1954's Salt of the Earth told a powerful story of American labor

A post suggesting a Twitter handle about invertebrates could have begun with the adjectives and nouns that invoke the uncomfortable feeling that imagining an insect brings forth. But if you… Read the rest of the article: Cute bugs live their best life on Gregor Samsa's favorite Twitter account

Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism by Tracy E. Perkins In some views, environmental justice and California might be synonymous. Yet definitions concerning the relationship… Read the rest of the article: New book on Environmental Justice in California

"Look at what we saw during class today. This is a blue crab molting." Have you ever seen a molting blue crab up close? Well, join these joyous and excited… Read the rest of the article: Watch a blue crab molting at Navarre Beach Marine Science Station

Two new resources expose the violence of solitary confinement, and the dignity and will of people struggling to survive incarceration Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger… Read the rest of the article: "The Box" and "Flying Kites" shed light on incarceration in America

According to the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), "Patient care and workers suffer because of the private equity business model." These two phrases are vital for anyone who is… Read the rest of the article: Continuity of Care and the Patient's Bill of Rights

"What's happening in Minnesota right now will probably never happen again in the United States." The question mark could be for various reasons. Surprise that it is the state of… Read the rest of the article: Why did GOP-controlled Minnesota legalize cannabis edibles?

So, what do cream cheese, beef brisket, jalapeños and bacon have common? Well, perhaps depending on where your live and in what time period there are different possibilities that are… Read the rest of the article: Texas Twinkies now available online

"Can a commodified and centralized subculture remain an outlet for the weird and uncanny?" This provocative question concludes the introductory paragraph to the special section on Skateboarding in Vol 4… Read the rest of the article: Skateboarding is in the Olympics. Can it stay weird?

Grupo Fantasma was legend in Austin in the late 1990s and early 2000s, particularly at Antone's Night Club. Adrian Quesada, a former leading member of Grupo, with whom he won… Read the rest of the article: Boleros Psicodélicos: Adrian Quesada's Border Collaborations

The Cobrahead line of garden tools are the most useful and accessible tools I have every used for purposes other than gardening——and top notch for all gardening purposes, too. Based… Read the rest of the article: Cobrahead garden tools great for other things, too

In the last year, community doula Jasmin Danae has been featured in the June 2022 issues of both Shout Out Arizona and Canvas Rebel , and the October 2021 issue… Read the rest of the article: The Total Mothering Chronicles supports moms and families