Internet and Power Outage? It’s Storm Season

ImageTropical Storm Isaias doing its thing on in Queens, N.Y. on August 5.Credit…Kathy Willens/Associated Press Even as California has escalating rolling blackouts and Iowa has been blasted with storms, an extremely active hurricane season for the United States is only just beginning. It’s not just the loss of electricity Americans fear from these events. With…

Social Justice Guides Are All Over Instagram

Though these guides are digital, they borrow from the analog art of zine making. “Zines, you know, it’s a democratic way to share information,” said Barbara Calderón, 32, an intersectional artist and librarian and the founder of Colectiva Cósmica, an art collective that hosts art workshops, publishes zines and organizes within creative communities. “The zine…

10 No-Cook Pasta Sauces for Summer

Pasta is an anytime food. Any mood, any season, it’s usually a good idea. But babysitting a bubbling pot of sauce in the summer heat? Not so much. The season’s sun-ripened produce lends itself well to no-cook pasta sauces — fresh, bright and ready in the time it takes to boil pasta. And because the…

Cook to Celebrate

The other day, my colleague Jamal Jordan posted a food photo on Twitter — an upsettingly beautiful skillet of mac and cheese, bubbling away furiously over the white-hot coals of his grill. I had no words at all, just endless heart-eye emojis, and it’s all I’ve wanted to eat since. Jamal told me he chopped…