My friends and I met in Denver on June 1 for Alex’s high school graduation party that turned into a wonderful, whimsical Alice In Wonderland journey.
The funny thing? We had never met Alex.
Because Alex (they/them) is the protagonist of Impossible Things, The Catamounts’ latest immersive theater production. Continue reading Explore the space between childhood and adulthood in “Impossible Things”
Note: After publishing How to Stop Dating in FoCo, I thought about how I didn’t tell the whole story.
You can’t be a person of color in a city that’s 84% white and not address the topic of identity. So here goes…
Act One: Hope
Download the Bumble app. Time to find the love of your life.
Your friend, who is a woman of color like you, says she’s been on 100 horrible first dates – mostly with white men – and “there’s nothing for you here.” Continue reading How to Stop Dating in FoCo, Part II
1. Download the Bumble app
2. Let your friend with 10 years of post-divorce dating experience help you write your bio.
3. Launch your profile on Jan 2 when hundreds (thousands?) of hopeful romantics across Colorado do the same.
4. Feel a surge of hope when you receive 52 likes the first day.
… Continue reading How to Stop Dating in FoCo, Part I: A Review of Bumble and OurTime
I haven’t watched reality TV since the early-2000s, when Survivor, The Amazing Race, Big Brother and others were new and at the height of their popularity. (Paradise Hotel was a short-lived favorite.)
So when two friends ─ let’s call them Alice and Betty ─ invited me to indulge in their secret, guilty pleasure, Vanderpump Rules, I jumped at the chance to see what’s changed in “unscripted” entertainment, to use the industry term, over the past two decades. Continue reading VANDERPUMP RULES: Drama, Drama, Drama!
I discovered Jenny Holiday’s 2021 novel Duke, Actually at the library, and it became one of my favorite rom-coms that I regularly revisit for laughs and tenderness.
So it was no surprise that I raced to place a library hold on her latest novel.
News flash: it contains the same big heart, intelligence, and wit that her other books do. Continue reading Her Imaginary CANADIAN BOYFRIEND
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Welcome, dear reader, to this website dedicated to exploring pop culture through an equity and inclusion lens…
I hope you’ll find a home here. I hope you feel like you belong. Continue reading Welcome to The Defiant Curtsy
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