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I have launched a restaurant review site called How to Eat L.A. If you like anything about that, please go check it out! -Katherine If you haven’t become a paid Smart Mouth subscriber yet, please consider it. The money goes straight to paying freelancers a good rate - much better than most publications. And if not that, click on the heart icon above so I know you’re reading! Please enjoy the article below by Tasha Lowe-Newsome.

I did The Artist’s Way this summer. I really stuck with it: all 12 weeks of it. If you’re unfamiliar with the book, it’s “a course in discovering and recovering your creative self” by Julia Cameron. Originally published in 1992, the book has sold over five million copies. I impulse-bought one of those copies in 2020, a time when everyone I knew, or so it felt, was working through the book.

So much happened during the Civil Rights movement in 1963 and 2023 marks 60 years since then. It is a year of difficult but significant anniversaries like the one below. If you’d like to learn more about such events please consider becoming a paid subscriber today.The bullet that killed Medgar Evers didn’t stop in his chest. It ripped through his body, through the wall of his home, and lodged in the refrigerator inside where his wife and three children were still awake.

This past week, I gave a talk at the 92nd Street Y with the astrologer Chani Nicholas, whose book You Were Born For This just came out in paperback. Last year, I spoke with Chani for my podcast to ask her why our horoscopes didn’t warn us about the impending pandemic. It turns out, the astrology for last year never indicated that good things were on the horizon—in fact, many of the same planetary alignments that existed during the Bubonic Plague and the HIV/AIDS Crisis were in full swing during most of 2020.

The average attention span for the notoriously ill-focused goldfish is nine seconds, but according to a new study from Microsoft Corp., people now generally lose concentration after eight seconds, highlighting the affects of an increasingly digitalized lifestyle on the brain—Time Magazine In 2015 most major publications like the Time Magazine quoted above reported that a human’s attention span is only eight seconds long—one second shorter than the attention span of a goldfish.

Today she’s typically described as a former advice columnist — but that term doesn’t really do justice to E. Jean Carroll’s career pre-Donald Trump. Long before she was one of the longest-serving advice columnists in America, Carroll blazed trails as a gonzo-style journalist The New York Times once called “feminism’s answer to Hunter Thompson.” She profiled Lyle Lovett for Esquire and went camping with notorious New York curmudgeon Fran Lebovitz for a cover story in Outside.

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This story are printed in GAYLETTER issue 19,to purchase the issue click here.DRAWINGS BY SILVIA PRADA TEXT AND PHOTOS BY ABI BENITEZAce Carter was outed as a homosexual by his school teacher and his brother while growing up in the Rust Belt during his junior year of high school. His brother logged onto his Facebook profile on the family computer and made a post saying, “Hey everyone. I want the whole world to know that I’m gay.

In a recent viral essay in The Cut, the American writer Grazie Sophia Christie makes a case for May-December marriages between young women and older men. The essay bills itself as an argument for age-gaps, but really it’s a kind of self-consciously parodic misreading of Edith Wharton, by which I mean a brazen defence of an age-old economic bargain in which a young woman sets out to trade the ever-depreciating asset of her beauty and charm in exchange for the economic security of a high-earning man — and then, rather improbably in this case, lives happily ever after.