Washington Post • 12th January 2021 Do ‘elder Goths’ hold the secret to aging successfully? In a culture that already treats older women as frightful, why not own that, and become the most fabulous grand dame of darkness the world has ever seen?
Princeton Alumni Weekly • 22nd December 2020 Built to Last In architecture, designing to reduce sprawl and increase resilience
Princeton Alumni Weekly • 25th October 2017 Scratch That When is a toy more than a toy? When it’s 2017, and you’ve got half an hour on your lunch break to run to the store and buy a birthday present for your niece Emma ... and Emma, meanwhile, has only 10 short years to ready her application to college ... and Emma’s parents have hinted that she can use all the help she can get.
Princeton Alumni Weekly • 6th April 2017 Best Friend Have you heard the one about JFK’s gay best friend? Lem Billings ’39, confidant to the Kennedys, was always present — in the background.
Mic • 10th February 2017 Ivy League grads are purging Facebook friends for "Defrienduary" You've heard of Drynuary. No-shave November. Yom Kippur. Lent. Now, consider a new detox holiday: Defrienduary. The premise is simple: one Facebook defriending per day, every day, throughout the short month of February. Think of it as Marie Kondo-ing your News Feed. Social self-care. Media minimalism.
Princeton Alumni Weekly • 1st November 2016 Tradition, Tradition Should a group of (mostly) straight men dance in drag? At 125, Triangle Club is celebrating its history — and considering whether its cherished kickline needs to be changed.
Mic • 4th April 2016 How to Make a Reality Star For every reality star that's born, there's a reality star that's made. On-screen charisma isn't an innate talent -- is a careful construction, as shown in this close reading of a television personality's three very different reality TV appearances.
Princeton Alumni Weekly • 2nd December 2015 The Creative Life In 2012, Nikki Muller had a moment. Her rap video “The Ivy League Hustle” became a viral sensation, racking up hundreds of thousands of views on Muller’s YouTube channel. Since then? “There’s just been so many brushes with what seems like a career — hah!"
Time Out Hong Kong • 23rd February 2014 Review: Mies Julie Writer-director Yael Farber transposes Strindberg’s story from Sweden to post-apartheid South Africa -- and her triumph is that this switch-up doesn’t feel like a gimmick, but rather an escalation of an already thrilling play.
The Wall Street Journal • 31st January 2014 Tiny Tuvalu Gets the Eco-Art Treatment Year on year, the impacts of climate change are hard to see: air temperatures warming by a few tenths of a degree here, sea levels rising by a few millimeters there. This poses a challenge to the artists who tackle climate change – a challenge that Taiwan’s Vincent J.F. Huang addresses by steamrolling right over it.
The Miami Herald • 27th May 2013 Miami Beach’s new Hong Kong sister fair dubbed a success Art Basel Hong Kong ended its inaugural run with solid sales, a swell of last-minute visitors, and the beginnings of a unique identity: less crazy than sister fair Art Basel Miami Beach and less stuffy than Art Basel Switzerland, with a decided (and unsurprising) Asian bent.
The Wall Street Journal • 4th April 2013 Great Moments in Walletology The "lost wallet scenario" is one of the core moral dilemmas of our time. Accordingly, researchers have zeroed in on lost wallets as a cross-cultural indicator of social trust—a regard for and faith in others that economists say can boost countries' growth.