Articles by Emma Wohl
23 articles found.
Week in Horticulture
Have you had your head in the ground all week? Or, um, up in the clouds? Indy News is here to …
Venezuela: Revolution from Above
On March 6, the anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s death, a few hundred of the former Venezuelan president’s most loyal followers flocked …
The Week in Secrecy
SMOOTH OPERATOR Some time ago, on a lonely Tuesday night, I walked into my local pub. It’s a place of solace, …
Ostentation Funk
Rolezhinos and the politics of consumption in suburban brazil
Evandro Farias de Almeida is an unlikely hero. The 20-year-old, who lives in the working-class outskirts of São Paulo, boasts more …
All In a Day
a partial collage of date-based protest
Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Aaron Swartz, the programmer and Internet activist whose crusade for “Guerilla Open …
Week in Stockpiles
Stuff your cheeks and fill up your pockets. More is always better, right? A BONE TO PICK “I kind of regret …
Week in Delivery
This holiday season was tough. Surely, no one at UPS wished for the harsh snowstorms that prevented the timely arrival of …
We Are All In This Together
Dissecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim nations (Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, the US, …
The Week to Survive
WHAT IS CYBER MONDAY? TELL ME MomBigShopper12 12.1.13: Who else likes to order DVDs, electronic accessories, and brand-name sneakers on Cyber …
Week in Fantasy
If you think you’re dreaming this, you can wake up now. And there’s no need to go back to sleep—because this …
Xiomara's Way
ON JUNE 28, 2007 SOLDIERS stormed into the bedroom of the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and forced Manuel Zelaya to …
Mating
A few weeks ago, as we were dragging our fingers through the water and dangling our feet off the dock, a …
Week in Last Stands
Taking a stand may be hard on your knees, but it means you can back up what you believe in, at …
The Revolution Will Not Be Standardized
The Fight for Education in RI
ON A SATURDAY MORNING LAST MARCH, 50 people sat down with their No. 2 pencils and began to fill in the …
WEEK IN REVIEW
PEARLS OF WISDOM Oyster. Oyster. Oyster. Oyster. Say it ten more times. Sounds kind of gross now, right? Like most words, …
In the Dark
Art in the East Side Railroad Tunnel
[start hero] [end hero] “Do you know why this closed in the first place?” someone asks me on a Friday night …
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 …
Growing Ca$h
if you could design your own money, what would you put on it? Michael Giroux found inspiration from nature when designing …
On Sacred Ground
Memorializing the Station Fire
Two days after the ten-year anniversary of the Station Nightclub Fire, the ground where the club stood is smooth. A circle …
Over Achievement
Charter Academy Opens Its Doors
“This almost didn’t happen,” Ellie Wyatt, a retired public school teacher and member of the Rhode Island Coalition to Defend Public …
Say No To Cops
Police Tensions Flare in the West End's Cambodian Community
As its name suggests, the main thing that holds the West End together is geography. South of Federal Hill and west …
Inconvenient Truths
The struggle for justice and memory in Brazil’s Truth Commission
As the credits rolled last week on The Day That Lasted 21 Years, a film about Brazil’s 21-year military dictatorship screened …
Civility and its Discontents
Gabrielle Giffords and the aftermath of the Tucson shooting
On January 25, 2012—a year and several weeks after she was shot in the head outside of a grocery store in …