How to Make the Perfect Cookie Box

For years, Melissa Clark has been on a quest to make the most delicious cookie box to gift to loved ones, logging her triumphs and failures along the way. Here’s what she’s learned. Eleven months out of the year, I make what would be considered an above average, but not excessive, number of cookies. But…

Ray Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’

In 1970, homosexual acts were still outlawed in parts of the United Kingdom and would remain so for more than a decade. Yet two years before the nation even had its first official Gay Pride rally, the quintessentially British songwriter Ray Davies of the Kinks wrote “Lola,” a song that embraced a full spectrum of…