The Case for Being Touched

“Can I come over?” It was a simple text. One I probably shouldn’t have been feeling so anxious about having sent as I drove to Matt’s house on the west side of Los Angeles after a late night at the office. But for a Muslim woman in her late 20s who had lived her entire…

His Better Banter Won Her Over

Blair Bryant Dawson would be chatted up by many patrons when she worked as a bartender at Catfish in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. But her banter with Daniel Sean Ogorzalek was always a cut above the rest. “You have to have an impeccable repartee to stand out to a bartender who’s chatting with funny patrons regularly,”…