Articles by Alex Ronan
18 articles found.
Westgate
On Saturday September 21, fifteen attackers laid siege on Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. At press time, the official casualty …
Boston
[start hero] [end hero] There is a candy shop on Boylston Street. Grace says something happened. Before it is called the …
Pleasure Reading
Open Sesame, Read a Fucking Book
Today, we decided we would stop. We took off our shoes, we did not go to work, we forgot about our …
Up In the Air
[start large] [end large] “I'm not quite sure I believe the final shot, though” Roger Ebert said of Love and Basketball’s …
On Yogurt
I. In the fifties yogurt was hip. Yogurt was so hip it was even spelled yoghurt. Today, yogurt is mainstream, yogurt …
Week in Review
Stop Spreading Yr Seeds Birth control is taking center stage in today’s political arena, and the sensitive topic is about to …
Hallowed Whisperings
A while ago, I went to the Met with a boy my age, and also his mother. We were walking around …
Keratin
I. The newspapers say a slender girl with a long, blondponytail blonde ponytail held by a ribbon of pink yarn and …
Pulling a Swift One
There is no mention of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf on the webpage for the win-a-Taylor-Swift-concert contest, which is …
Week in Review
Current EventsAfter floating in the north sea for 98 years, a message in a bottle was pulled in by a Scottish …
Win Big, Lose Bigger
Financial security,” NightStalker explained, adding “I’d go into more detail, but since you are a college kid, I don’t want to …
Week in Review
Ghost of Gaddafi Somewhere outside Misrata, the body of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi lies buried in an unmarked grave. But 197 days …
Earth Daze
how a radical anti-corporate movement got lost in the lamest holiday on the planet
There were rumors that NASA had the capacity to take satellite images of the Earth. It was 1966 and Stewart Brand, …
Week in Review
There is a Lot I Don’t Understand About You Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year old columnist for Saudi Arabia’s Al Bilad newspaper, …
Week in Review
Bad Ro(bo)mance For a generation taught responsibility with Furbys and Tomagatchis, whose dating rituals are facilitated and structured by websites and …
WEEK IN REVIEW 17 November 2011
Fight back app Although today’s most popular smart phone app provides users with an arsenal of angry birds to battle apple-stealing …
WEEK IN REVIEW 10 November 2011
Cuba CribsLockeans, get out your party horns. Cuba, one of the world’s last communist holdouts, announced on November 3 that private …
Week In Review: Pirate Party Parade
Pirate PartyIn case you missed it, September 19th was International Talk Like a Pirate Day, celebrated on social media sites around …