Amanda Chantal Bacon is really onto something with her cult status Moon Juice Shop in Venice Beach. Stocking “cosmic provisions” like moon dust powders, cold pressed juices, and enzyme-activated chocolate, these items can also be purchased in her online shop.
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Erin McKenna, founder of the iconic BabyCakes bakery in NYC, is back with another cookbook, this time covering all things to fill your bread basket. With recipes for pastries, pizzas, and “the perfect sandwich bread,” you won’t even notice that they’re all gluten-free and vegan.
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Environment. French architect Thomas Cestia, videographer Romain Dussaulx, and photographer Yann Rabanier investigate the nature of public space in Los Angeles.
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Perception. Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash created optical illusions that highlight the importance of context.
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100 Word Story publishes microfiction of–yes, you guessed it–exactly 100 words: no more, no less. The results are stories distilled to a poem-like essence.
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No time to attend a reading? Artist and writer Kate Gavino attends more readings in NYC than seems humanly possible, and illustrates each night’s most profound or pithy quote with a delightful portrait of the author.
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The Duchess Goldblatt doesn’t just write Twitter fiction, she embodies it: she purports to be a fictional 81-year-old European duchess, and all tweets come laced with that persona’s wry and offbeat sense of humor–even the ones about her crush on Lyle Lovett. To follow her is to watch a magnificent piece of fiction/performance art unfold.
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Well+Good asks: Is Instagram is making people healthier? It might just be! Through the platform, users are constantly being inspired to make healthier choices and learning how to do so.
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Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now is a must-read. Living in the present can be far from easy, but Tolle teaches that it’s all you really have. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
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Minimalist Baker has recipe ideas that satisfy both sweet and savory cravings, and they all use no more than ten ingredients, one bowl, or take more than 30 minutes to prepare. Most recently, I tried their Vegan Cheez Its.
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