Food tells a story. The dishes that you cook can give clues about your heritage, geographical location, and even your personality. Here at Loco we’re huge foodies, so we thought that we would share the recipes and stories behind some of our favorite dishes. Hopefully they will give you the inspiration to make some culinary magic in your own kitchen!…
Glenside, pa is a cozy town filled with stories. It’s a home away from home, a hamlet outside a huge city, and a joyful community. Enjoy the Glenside sites, photographed by Jennifer Clark and set to Alisa Thammavong’s cover of Bon Jovi’s “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” with this musical slideshow. Pay homage to this precious little town with…
I’m a Mary Sue. You’re a Mary Sue, too. Pretty much everyone who reads or watches a film or sits in front of the TV is a Mary Sue because we’re all reaching for characters that we can identify with.
Do you ever remember the full conversation or just bits and pieces? Here are a couple of conversations I had with a couple of drunken friends (I was sober, of course) and asked them a couple of goofy questions.
My Bubbie also always told me, “You gotta do what you gotta do, to get where you wanna get.” Whenever I’m feeling lazy or unmotivated I picture my Bubbie saying that to me. This helps me to remember if I want to be successful and go places in life I have to work for it. No one is handed anything and Sonia Sotomayor is a perfect example of that.
Enjoy as four food and video enthusiasts tear through Philly in search of the perfect meal on a budget, sharing their transit stories, food stories, and stories expressed through brief interpretive dance. What else could you wish for?
Why do we make sequels? Do we make them because we love the original film or do the Hollywood moneymakers just want to continue their business?
As a resident of the city and an enthusiast of anything that claims to be haunted, I sought out some of the legends that are rooted in Philly. Among many of the legends that I discovered one of the most interesting was right in my backyard, the Grumblethorpe in historic Germantown.
When I opened that book it felt like I was opening a door into a new life. Dramatic? I agree, but true! I couldn’t bring my self to read anything. The whole thing was like eye candy: colorful images popping out of the pages like a movie playing out in front of me. Like any other well-crafted objects, we tend to forget that it didn’t make itself. Someone drew this. That’s when I thought, “Ptsh, I can do that!” And so began my pursuit. After all, this is America right? The land of opportunity where you can make a living drawing cartoons on a piece of paper. I promised my self a bite from that American dream.
Fanfiction, for those who do not know, is exactly what it sounds. It is the action of writing stories about characters and worlds someone else has already written or made television shows, movies, and any number of other kinds of media about. It is an entire community of people who cannot or will not let go of their old favorites – where all of the “what ifs” of a series become “Alternate Universe fics” and all the characters you wanted to get together, can.
