Comedy legend Joan Rivers ripped through the comedy world with her razor-sharp jokes and self-deprecating humor.
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How Monopoly Was Invented: The Anti-Capitalist Board Game
In 1903, Elizabeth Magie filed a patent for The Landlord’s Game. The game had two sets of rules: one where players we…
Playing Dress-Up Was My Job … So Who Was I?
Over the years working in costume design, I ushered an actor through the Mississippi swamplands and was ushered throu…
Happy Hour with Ivy Mix
Speed Rack’s Ivy Mix is one of those women who comes to mind when you think of the phrase “powerhouse.” She is an art…
Poem: Batman by Leigh Lucas
Batman – poem by Leigh Lucas, a writer who lives in San Francisco. She is working on her first collection of poems.
When a Sex Shop Opens in the Neighborhood
Sid is standing on the shoulders of brazen, sex-loving giants. Please wouldn’t be there at all if not for the early p…
Upping the Ante: Jessica Walsh on Creative Play
All games have rules, limitations that reign in, and cultivate, imagination. The more defined, the better. If life is…
Look Ma, No Hands! Risky Playground Design
Writer: Sarah Todd Editor: Whitney Seiler Photography: Courtesy of Erin Davis Illustration: Natalieann Rich Look Ma, …
Child’s Play: Pink and Blue Gender History
One of the many recent projects that have set out to explore the issue of gender and its relation to childhood is Jeo…
Sexuality Game: Alien Sex and the Quintessential Vulva
Alien Sex and the Quintessential Vulva Writer: Sara Cornish Editor: Allison Geller Artwork Courtesy of Tina Gong Meet…
Pages: Sheila Heti’s All Our Happy Days Are Stupid
A year after Sheila Heti published her hugely original and popular metanovel, How Should a Person Be?, the director J…