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Every so often we like to take a second and remind ourselves that all things change, and it is often good and always enlightening. Sylvan Esso, our favorite band at the moment, make change a constant. The 2 that make up the duo were both prolific folk musicians before they met. Then, “We went out for grilled cheese sandwiches and…
Pinky Weitzman knows how to lead the resistance without burning out. Her trick is to make time for art. She’s deputy digital director at the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that defends people’s rights and liberties, and that Fast Company has recently deemed as “Leading the Resistance.” She’s been there for 3 years, with a leave of absence to…
When news of growing racial tensions went public Boston Latin High School’s image took a hit. Senior Phillip Sossou didn’t think reporters told the full story of the school he’s grown to love, so he drew his own. He scraped together photos of all of his classmates and then he drew them. Like, he spent four months secretly sketching 411 charcoal…
Andy Puddicombe – Buddhist monk and the founder of the tech startup, Headspace – is a busy guy. He’s been featured in every magazine ever – well, almost – has written two books, and has his own TED Talk. Oh, and a degree in Circus Arts. Really, that’s a thing. After a string of hard-knocks led him to realize a…
When Hollywood starts showing people like her as someone to strive for, we know a shift is taking place. Patty Jenkins, the director of the movie that has us swooning, is the superhero behind the superhero. “I wasn’t directing a woman, I was just directing a hero,” Jenkins told the New York Times. “I wanted to tell a story about…
Meet Resilient Coders (RC) tech advisor, Alec Ortega. Like many who work for RC, he has an unusual life story. “Do stuff” was the simple mantra that helped Ortega find a way back up when the bottom dropped out of life just after high school graduation. He had just come out to his parents and let’s just say they didn’t take…
Jump into Lola’s world for a moment. Dance in the wet paint. You’ll feel at ease – it’s colorful, brave, and body positive. Lola Ayisha Ogbara is a Chicago-raised, St Louis-livin’ artist who is shifting body talk to a positive one (not easy). She employs her talent—including illustration, paint, sculpture—to spark conversations on women’s bodies, especially surrounding gender, body size,…
For many, success is achieved through college. For others, it’s defined by a guitar in their hands. Rock idol Bruce Springsteen opted out of the factory-working life that many of his peers followed and tapped into the vibrant interracial music scene of gritty Asbury Park, New Jersey, instead. The child of a lower-class family and a loner in school, it wasn’t…
Before the Polo Fields, before Hippie Hill and before becoming a staple of the festival circuit, SF’s Golden Gate Park was literally a pile of sand. It was late-19th-century designers, not nature, that created the thousand-acre green space with imported flora and fauna. Even the squirrels were shipped in from the East Coast. At the park’s de Young Museum, artist-in-residence…
She slayed the world of Tejano music – a previously male-dominated genre – and was the first female to win a Grammy in it. Not only that, but Selena was a feminist and philanthropist in her own right. She was very active in the Texas school system, advocating for students to finish high school, and also worked to support women who…
