Articles by Will Tavlin
15 articles found.
Dear Indy...
Submit your questions anonymously for the Indy advice columnhere. Dear Indy, I’ve just been ghosted by my Tinder date. It feels …
Dear Indy...
Dear Indy, Thoughts on PDA? LB: Despite long being an object of public scrutiny, regulation, judgment, and fantasy, the thing about …
At The Presiding Moment
US media’s coverage of Trump’s strike in Syria
In the wake of last Thursday’s supposedly retributive airstrike against the Syrian Army and Bashar al-Assad, the Trump administration’s actions were …
Rooms For Fear
Imagining art after Trump
In her essay “No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear,” Toni Morrison recalls in the Nation a moment after President …
Can't Serve Prestige
Harvard University Dining Services on strike
On Saturday, October 22, a middle-aged man stood in the rain on the corner of John F. Kennedy Street and Memorial …
Week in Creeps
FRIGHT NIGHT Children of the night and survivors of the early aughts emo phase, take heart. Instead of sitting on your …
Dear Indy...
I want a baby. Should I get a dog? I don’t enjoy the company of children, and they don’t enjoy my …
Food Desk
Notes on Providence Eateries
In Ferno (S Water St.) This hot spot burns. Providence and Italiano go together like an apple and knowledge. That people …
Gestures in Absence
On the 15 Year Memory of 9/11
A thousand 9/11 stories are the same. Ask any New Yorker who watched the event in real time what they saw …
Public Space is the Place
Art and Politics in Battery Park City
Wheatfields - A Confrontation, Agnes Denes, 1982 Before the World Financial Center, the glass skyscrapers, the open-air cafes, the high-end boutiques, …
Week in American Exceptionalism
Rock the Vote In what is perhaps the most unexpected political power couple to emerge in 2016, failed Republican and Democratic …
Week in Campaigning
Getting Colder Rhode Island kicked off its new tourism campaign last week only to face immediate international ridicule, accusations of financial …
Week in Modern Warfare
Protocols and Transgressions On the night of March 1st two Israeli Defense Force troops found themselves in the Palestinian refugee camp …
Overdue Notice
Labor Grievances in Brown University’s Changing Libraries
In February 2016, Brown University completed its full scale renovations of the John D. Rockefeller Library’s ground floor. A new lobby …
Return of the Franchise
The Force Awakens to Disney
The triumphant return to Star Wars, the opening crawl, like every preceding Star Wars film, plants us in the thick of …