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05 Sep 2019

6 Things You Can Actually Do to Help If You Care About the Amazon Forest

By Kate Haverston We’ve all seen the heart wrenching footage of the Amazon Rainforest as it burns down. It’s especially stunning considering the sheer size of it — the Amazon spreads into eight different countries in South America and covers 40 percent of the entire continent. Of course, these trees

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04 Sep 2019

7 Surprising Ways Your Life is Not Over After Bankruptcy

by Rachel Fogletto I’m only an expert of my own journey, but when I tell people I’ve gone bankrupt I get a lot of questions. Whether you’re thinking about bankruptcy, or you’ve already done it and don’t know how to start rebuilding your credit, the most important thing to do

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03 Sep 2019

8 Easy Sandwiches for When Your Life is in Shambles

by Ellisha Rader Woke up in the middle of the night covered in sweat, smelling of desperation and starving? As you do the walk of shame to your change jar, you suddenly remember you emptied it out earlier that night to pay for the cab to send home the stranger

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03 Sep 2019

I Went to Hamilton on Mushrooms, with my Dad.

I was looking over an 8th of shrooms – their thin white stems, their booger tainted caps, bent twisted in a kind of chaotic contortionist pose – when my dad called.  He had bought tickets for something and he was very excited about it. This was nothing new.

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03 Sep 2019

Diplo Wins Burning Man ‘Douchebag of the Year’ Award

We hope all of you artists, freaks, friends, crafters, rangers, dancers, and newbies all had a great burn this year!  Burning Man is a great place for art, community, music, gifting, hedonism, self-expression, self-discovery, and self-reliance.  Founded by a community who wanted an environment “unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or

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02 Sep 2019

6 Tips for Breaking Up With Fast Fashion on a Budget

by Kattoo King The internet is overcrowded with articles about the effects of fast fashion on both the fashion industry and the environment.  We’ve all heard the story: cheap clothes, which are made of plastic and designed to be disposable, are overcrowding closets and landfills across the world; and none

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29 Aug 2019

Why Planned Parenthood Rejected Federal Funding

by Kate Brunotts Last Monday, Planned Parenthood decided to pull out of Title X’s federal funding program, which offers subsidized contraceptives and services to about 4 million low-income women.  The reasoning behind it? Trump’s program revision included an all-encompassing gag rule: Any doctor servicing at one of the organization’s locations

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28 Aug 2019

Try This Spectacular Rigatoni with Lamb Ragu Recipe From the Hosts of The Pasta Show

Recently celebrating its 4-year anniversary, The Pasta Show is the only stand-up comedy show where one of the hosts cooks a homemade pasta dinner for the audience, all for $10. Hosted by Kenice Mobley (Bridgetown, SF Sketchfest) and Brian Parise (Last Week Tonight, Montreal JFL), the monthly show regularly features the best

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