DC · Events · Music · Spotlight Feature
From Victrolas to records, 8-tracks to cassettes, CDs to iPods and cell phones, the art of listening to music has evolved over the decades . Today’s MP3s make music transportable, compact, and readily available anytime, anywhere. But if every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it’s arguable that MP3s (continued…)
Art · Culture · Spotlight Feature
eneration Y is a generation of dreamers. And while we’re not the first generation to dream, we are the first to grow up with the encouragement to follow those dreams. In young adulthood we nurtured our creative passions, we made promises to ourselves that we’d never work a nine-to-five. Meanwhile, (continued…)
DIY Halloween Costumes · Halloween
Still stumped for the perfect Halloween costume? If you want to channel a cool 80s cartoons, try wearing a Rainbow Brite costume. A colorful and fantastic throwback to your youth (or maybe even your raver days), our DIY version of Rainbow is fail-proof fun. The outfit is based around a (continued…)
Events · Halloween · Meets Obsession
Front yards are covered in spiderwebs, and candy corn colored decorations are lining both home and store front windows. Yes, the Halloween season is upon us. Sometimes finding the best things, the strangest things, or the coolest things can be difficult. But trust us, the DMV has got something a (continued…)
The district’s persona is slowly reshaping, but at what cost? [divider] For decades, Washington D.C. has been known as the political pinnacle of the country, a city of over-achievers, even a center for crime. But as the years pass, the district’s persona is slowly reshaping. There’s a blossoming art scene, (continued…)
To many people, the start of summer is the highlight of June. But for the LGBTQ community, it’s the month of Pride—a weekend-long extravaganza consisting of a parades, festivals and parties. Most major US cities, and even some minor cities, devote one weekend of the summer to Queer Pride. Today, (continued…)
Featured · Meets Obsession · Sexual Health
With the never-ending war on women’s rights and abstinence-only programs still being taught throughout the country, it’s not always easy to uncover the truth about where we’re at regarding safer sex and the state of sexually transmitted diseases. Pop culture would have everyone believing that casual sex runs rampant, conservatives (continued…)
Top left to bottom: advertisements for Fair & Lovely, Clean and Dry Intimate Wash and Vaseline’s Fair & Handsome Raising the bar on beauty standards for women (and men) isn’t necessarily new, but a recent commercial has raised more than a few eyebrows. The advertisement currently playing on the TVs (continued…)
Cherry Blast 2009. Photos courtesyof the Pink Line Project. [divider] This Saturday night, the Lightbox will host DC’s fourth annual Cherry Blast, an art and cultural extravaganza intended to highlight the city’s emerging underground artists. This year’s party returns to Anacostia boosting the biggest and best Cherry Blast yet. The (continued…)
It’s no longer breaking news that the country’s economy is suffering, and a slew of reports released in the past several months are showing that 20somethings might just be responsible. The generation that claims an average of $45,000 in debt, according to PCN’s survey released in March, is no longer (continued…)
DC · Meets Obsession · Music
Courtesy Photo [divider] Possibly the greatest thing about spring (and summer) are the epic music festivals. Even DC has it’s very own. On April 28, The Sweetlife Festival will take over Columbia, Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, and this year it’s doubling in size. In it’s sixth year, the creators of (continued…)
[divider] “Home Mender” art installation curated by Justine Topfer. Photo: Todd Seelie [divider] Last Saturday night, the Capitol Skyline Hotel hosted the launch party for DC’s newest art endeavor, 5×5. Over the course of April, many of the District’s neighborhoods will be decorated with temporary art pieces from “25 notable (continued…)
Beauty · Featured · Television
o channel surfing on any given night of the week and it’s guaranteed that at least one reality television series will be playing. Today, reality television fans have unlimited viewing options with shows like “Real Housewives” (pick a city), “Jersey Shore,” “Bad Girls Club,” “Toddlers and Tiaras,” and almost all (continued…)
Designers that use diverse models on the runway include Nomia (left: photo courtesy of Nomia), Kevork Kiledjian (center: photo courtesy of Kevork Kiledjian), Tracy Reese (right: photo courtesy of Tracy Reese) [divider] hen it comes to diversity, America is often regarded as a melting pot of cultures, backgrounds and colors. (continued…)
Eating Disorders · Featured · Health and Fitness
A compilation of images posted by “thinspo” blogs for inspiration Girls want to be skinny. Boys want to be muscular. It’s a long-running American tradition that, even as young children, we all obsess about our bodies. But at what point does the obsession become extreme? At the “It’s Our Turn” (continued…)
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