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Stewart/Owen Dance: Creating Movement in Asheville
Profile by Asheville Guide. Photography by Anthony Bellemare. Vanessa Owen and Gavin Stewart by Anthony Bellemare. In a town where the...


a story about a woman i met, and maybe you should too
Words by JD Ellison. Photography by Anthony Bellemare. alexandria monque ravenel by Anthony Bellemare. It started with an unorthodox—and...


Anthony Bellemare: The Photographer Who Sees the Hero in Everyone
by Asheville Guide. There is something impossibly human about Anthony Bellemare’s work. It doesn’t demand your attention so much as it...


How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality
American women still have fewer orgasms than men. Apparently, the “orgasm gap” is still very much in effect.


As more Americans go ‘no contact’ with their parents, they live out a dilemma at the heart of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’
by Jeanette Tran Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first? These clichés about the importance of family abound,...


What James Earl Jones can teach us about activism and art in times of crisis
by Dominic Taylor James Earl Jones preps in the dressing room before performing as Jack Jefferson in ‘The Great White Hope’ in December...


Dorothy Allison was an authentic voice for the poor, capturing the beauty, humor and pain of working-class life in America
by Lennard J. Davis Dorothy Allison, who died on Nov. 5, 2024 , published her first novel, “ Bastard Out of Carolina ,” in 1992, when she...


In praise of the weird
by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Republicans, as you’ve probably heard, are being called “weird.” In a quip that launched a million memes,...


The Paradox of Comfort and Conflict in Modern Dating
Navigating the complexities of dating can feel like threading a needle blindfolded — especially when comfort and misunderstanding...


A Beautiful, Twisted, Poly/Pan Spiral
by JD Ellison **Disclaimer: I wrote this piece in 2021, and while I stand by it, I'm not sure that the 2021 version of me fully...


What the ancient Indian text Bhagavad Gita can teach about not putting too much of our identity and emotions into work
by Robert J. Stephens A 2023 Gallup poll found that U.S. employees are generally unhappy at work. The number of those who feel angry and...


I doomscrolled and now I'm in love with Flamingos
by AG Staff This photo is beautiful. That is all. In the vast jungle of the internet, where doom scrolling reigns supreme and cat videos...
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