Consider the humble cactus. A resident of this planet well before humans emerged, outliving both us and the elements, it’s playing nature’s ultimate version of the long game. For Adrián López Velarde and Marte Cázarez Duarte, it also might be the spiky secret to solving fashion’s waste problem. After meeting while studying abroad in Taiwan—and
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Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Patrick R. Field. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of
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Kendra Winchester is a Contributing Editor for Book Riot where she writes about audiobooks and disability literature. She is also the Founder of Read Appalachia, which celebrates Appalachian literature and writing. Previously, Kendra co-founded and served as Executive Director for Reading Women, a podcast that gained an international following over its six-season run. In her
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Netflix has released the first trailer for Mother of the Bride, their new rom-com starring Brooke Shields and Miranda Cosgrove. “Lana’s daughter Emma returns from abroad and drops a bombshell: she’s getting married. In Thailand. In a month! Things only get worse when Lana learns that the man who captured Emma’s heart is the son of the man
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There’s a tendency in generational discourse to position young people as one of two archetypes: Either children are the naive, detached, irresponsible, phone-addicted, self-absorbed embodiment of all modern sins—or they’re the long-awaited antidote to the wells their ancestors have already poisoned. Neither portrayal is fair; neither portrayal is accurate. And while the new documentary Girls
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Universal/Monkeypaw’s Dev Patel action movie Monkey Man and 20th Century Studios’ First Omen are both projected to do north of $12M, but the former had the edge over the latter on Thursday night in previews, $1.4M to $725K. Previews for Monkey Man began at 5PM at 2,750 theaters while First Omen‘s started at 7PM. Legendary
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We’re a quarter of the way through the year, if you can believe it, which makes it a good time to look back at the state of books so far in 2024. Goodreads has just released a list of 51 Nonfiction Hits of 2024 (So Far), separated into Essays, Memoirs, History & Biography, Science, and
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If old school country music gives you that good buzz, now you know why. According to a therapist with the Sims Foundation — an organization that provides mental health and substance use recovery services — listening to music from your high school days “binds to brain” more than anything you hear as an adult. So, that’s
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