A long-form magazine that intertwines the genres of news, opinion and creative nonfiction.
June 16 Edition:
Alcohol and awkwardness
A few weeks ago on my 21st birthday, a friend and I made our way to Good Time Charley’s to buy my first legal drink. We shared a fishbowl called […]
Feeling SOUR about friendship breakups
It’s hard to miss Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album, SOUR. People have been listening on repeat across the world — the album is topping charts and breaking records daily. The cause of her immense popularity? I would credit her vulnerable relatability. […]
Recollections of journeys with you
“We keep this love in a photograph / We made these memories for ourselves / Where our eyes are never closing / Hearts are never broken / And time’s forever frozen, still” —Ed Sheeran, “Photograph.” It began with photographs, unearthed […]
June 9 Edition:
Macklemore and his contradictions: the unruly mess he has made
In my middle-school world of Little League softball and sleepovers, I found myself listening to Macklemore’s (and Ryan Lewis’s) discussion of addiction, greed and failure throughout the album “The Heist.” […]
Reflections on Gen Z’s image
When I typed “Why is Generation Z…” into Google, the first autofill suggestion was “so soft.” The second was “so sensitive.” Next was “entitled,” followed by “different,” “anxious” and “stressed.” It feels like Gen Z — which is largely agreed […]
What it means to be bombed
It’s an average Tuesday night in Tel Aviv, Israel’s secular hub and a social oasis in the desert of the pandemic. I’m going out to meet some friends at a bar after a long day at the office; there are […]
The effects of time on personal growth
Introduction: I have reached a somewhat odd phenomenon in my life. It’s May. I have traveled back from school to the house where I grew up and notice my dog’s face is much whiter, and my next-door neighbors in elementary […]
June 2 Edition:
The COVID transition: Summer travel, social activities and masks
Over late night cups of tea during finals season, one of my housemates and I discussed our hopes and plans for the summer. She would be vacationing in Florida with […]
A faith of my own
The pages of the frayed old children’s book peek out of my nightstand, begging to be read once again. Prepared for the overflow of emotions and tears that I know are on their way, I wipe my eyes, put on […]
Conversations from the kitchen table
The kitchen table in my childhood home was actually chosen by me at 13 years old. I dragged my mom to Delia’s, the Justice of my middle-school era, while they were having a store-closing sale. The table they displayed their […]
May 26 Edition:
Town or gown: the two sides of Ann Arbor
Painting the rock at the corner of Hill Street and Washtenaw Avenue is much more than just a longstanding campus tradition. In 1953, Michigan students and their Michigan State counterparts […]
Local feminist takes on the kitchen
It is April 2020, and I am in my parents’ kitchen. It’s lined with bright red cabinets and filled with blue antique sugar jars, and there are green flowers on the tile backsplash. I am making my third batch of […]
The art of the roommate pitch
It was a match made on Facebook. My roommate Maggie and I found each other on the Class of 2022 page and immediately clicked because we had so much in common. We had both taken gap years. We shared a […]
May 19 Edition:
What Macomb County can teach us about American politics
Back when blue and red were just Crayola colors to me, I remember sitting around the reading carpet at my elementary school in Macomb County, Michigan, as everyone went around […]
The j word: journalism at Michigan
The debate of the college major is an endless uphill battle; you can ponder and argue and make all the decisions you want without ever truly knowing if you’re making the right choice. It is impossible for a major to […]
Holding on or letting go
When you’re in middle school and high school, you think your best friends will stay your best friends forever. Maybe back then, you were too naive to consider that you’ll likely end up going to different colleges. Maybe back then, […]
Language and me
This summer, I will be taking a course to earn a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, otherwise known as a CELTA. According to the official Cambridge website, the CELTA course “covers the principles of effective teaching,” […]
May 12 Edition:
Billy Magic and the internet’s unabashed enthusiasm for public transit
“Americans only love the college experience because it’s the only time in their lives they live in a walkable community,” reads a viral January 2020 tweet. Ann Arbor fits the […]
An incomplete journey of identity and self-acceptance
TW: Homophobia; internalized homophobia When I was 12 years old, my mother told me to unbutton my collar because I looked like a lesbian. She assured me only a moment later, after I had undone two of the buttons, that […]
Exploring the song graveyard
Many people have a song or album that they once shared with a significant other, friend or someone in between. Whether it was a Spotify link, a burned CD or a voice memo, that song soon became what they would […]
Finding happiness in lockdown
Pre-pandemic me was fake-smiling her way through life. Controlled by fear of the heavy truths that resided deep within me, I resorted to stuffing my emotions neatly away. My idea was to live a ‘halfway life,’ one where I refused […]
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