Natalia Borecka

A few years ago, strange things began to happen to Merideth Pedack. The Washington-based hairstylist found she could taste her clients’ deodorant on the back of her tongue, even from ten feet away. A sharp metallic smell clung to her nose throughout the day, and she started getting grinding headaches that seemed to last longer…

Michele “Chele” Roland was looking for salvation when she joined the International Churches of Christ. She never imagined that, three decades later, she would lead a legal battle accusing the controversial Christian religious organization of enabling and covering up the sexual molestation of children in its congregation, among other alleged abuses, but that’s exactly what she’s doing.…

At the time of filming Silver Linings Playbook Jennifer Lawrence portrayed a thirty-nine year old widow, but was herself barely old enough to drink legally in the US. Similarly, in Joy Lawrence played a women in her mid-forties, while in American Hustle she played a middle-aged love interest to a nearly forty year old Christian Bale. Strange as these casting decisions look,…

Shelley Vinyard wants you to stop flushing climate-critical forests down the toilet.  Vinyard is the Campaign Manager for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental advocacy organization taking on the likes of Procter & Gamble (P&G), Amazon, Walmart, and Target with their Issue With Tissue report and corresponding scorecard. The report reveals that the toilet paper hanging in your…

Kevin Dublin, a San Francisco-based poet and writer, is doing everything he can to keep the city’s literary culture alive. He leads a number of writing programs, including the Elder Writing Project, which brings creative writing classes to retirement communities across the Bay Area. He also hosts a community-building reading series, mentors under-resourced kids, spends his summers teaching writing…

One of the greatest and most public bff-breakups in history happened in the summer of 1952, between two of the most brilliant philosophers of the 20th century, Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. This platonic power couple had a lot in common; they were both chain-smokin’ commies, both were exceptional storytellers, playwrights, essayists, and magazine…

Nobuyoshi Araki is the most famous photographer you’ve probably never heard of. Having published over 450 books, Araki is the second most Googled artist in the world, beating out the likes of Andy Warhol, Picasso and Lichtenstein in sheer volume of searches. His cultural value is immense. So who is this guy anyway, and why should we…