Men: They’ve always eaten food. But over the years, what they’ve eaten — and what’s been marketed to them to eat — has changed. That’s why MEL enlisted Meg Favreau, a weird history writer and person who eats food, to start Feed the Beast, an occasional series about the most interesting...
I recently attended a bachelorette party that I can only describe as “lit”: Ten women, three nights and one beautiful and very well-stocked beach house in a remote part of Oregon. Needless to say, we consumed unspeakable quantities of alcohol. On only one of the three days...
“Would you consider yourself to be technical?” I remember the question vividly. I paused before answering and focused my attention on a painting hanging in my aunt’s living room. It was my second phone interview with a second recruiter who I would never meet in person. I...
Every year, style sites trot out their Summer Content, which almost always includes a post exploring the issue of men slipping their hairy, crusty feet into thonged sandals. The Cut has debated Men in Flip Flops. Racked has said no to the entire “mandal” trend. Even noted...
In the strange new world of eSports, where childhood dreams of getting paid to play video games are made reality, “gaming houses” have become the norm. It’s more Silicon Valley than National Lampoon’s Animal House; the premise sounds like an updated version of Real World: Five gamers...
Lately you’ve been going through a few changes. Your brain is now registering salad. Your circulatory system is around 70 percent coffee. Your hormones are all over the place, telling you it’s late and you’ve got work in the morning. Please don’t be alarmed: This is all...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
Keith Lippa — bald, tan and a touch paunchy, shoulders slightly hunched underneath a red polo and pair of khakis — ambles into Hiro Sushi, a nondescript Japanese restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. He settles into one of the many empty black booths for what will be a welcome break from his...
Fact: Men will never best women in the competition for who suffers more through pregnancy and childbirth. But that doesn’t mean they don’t suffer at all — or that their suffering is insignificant. Two recent studies (both from Dr. Craig Garfield, an associate professor of pediatrics and medical social...
Walk-up music is so synonymous with Major League Baseball that part of the fun of going to a game is hearing what songs will pump through the stadium speakers when the home team’s players step into the batter’s box. And those songs can become part of a...
If I’m supposed to measure my life in love (per Rent, the musical), can I measure my days in knowledge? How about advice? Here’s some from serial entrepreneur John Greathouse, who wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week: In a similar fashion, women in...
This is the second installment of our series Into the Black, where we hear from people who escaped the overwhelming burden of unpaid bills and loans through their own sacrifice and ingenuity. First up was Paige Trimble from North Carolina, who paid back $68,000 in three years....
