Editorials

From the Editor’s Desk: Hey, Writers: Get Your Butts In Here!

When I was a wee lass of 19, my favorite movie was “High Art.” It was/is an indie film centered around the budding romance of fictional photographer Lucy Berliner (played by an impossibly thin Ally Sheedy) and ...

Grammarians Are Often Bullies, Too

Melvin has a speech impediment to go along with his barely interpretable Southern accent, and he always comes over in the tattered, clay-stained clothes of a blue-collar Southern man who’d rather you paid atten...

An Editor Seeks An Answer

In the last issue’s editorial entitled “A Little Too Laid Back,” I shared a mostly upbeat tale about busting my ankle stepping off a curb. I didn’t get into too much detail because, all in all, it’s not the mos...

Melissa Carter

That’s What She Said: We’ll Never Be Royals … Or Will We?

Me: “Will I live long enough to see an openly gay heir to the throne? Doubt it.” Friend: “I don’t know. That’s what I said about a black president.”I am a huge Anglophile and, like many others, have followed t...

A Little Too Laid Back

Of all the lousy curbs on this side of our steamy city, I had to go and step off that one. “Rice,” people keep saying over and over. “Oh, you hurt your ankle? Rice! You have swelling? Omg, rice! Does it...