All stories published by The Awl on March 11, 2014

All Stories published by The Awl on March 11, 2014

The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

Inside The Barista Class

by Molly Osberg

What Time Is The Revolution?

by David Burr Gerrard

There were a number of reasons to be skeptical when I arrived at a very expensive bar in Fort Greene to talk with Benjamin Kunkel about Utopia or Bust, his new collection of introductory essays about contemporary leftist theorists…

Edith Zimmerman in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

A Very Jameson “St. Patrick’s Day” Party

As we celebrate with all of our friends who make St. Patrick’s Day great, we raise a glass to Jameson for sponsoring this story.

Before we threw an early St. Patrick’s Day party funded by Jameson for some of our friends last week…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

Lid Blown Off Shocking “White Girls” Story

“A high school newspaper headline is stirring up controversy in Rio Rancho. Some call it offensive; others deem it a joke, but either way the headline ‘No money for Starbucks #WhiteGirlProbz’ didn’t go unnoticed. The article goes into other topics, from…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

“The Catapult”: Where To Hear New Writing

Alex Balk in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

Is Sleeping Near Your Phone Killing You?

“Eight out of ten of us keep our mobiles on overnight… But experts are concerned about the effect this is having — at the very least it makes us ‘hypervigilant’ so our sleep is more likely to be disturbed and we end up not getting enough of the restorative…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

Do You Know How To Say No?

“She has developed her own technique for declining a request that someone just keeps lobbing: She repeats her refusal — ‘I am sorry, I am not able to do that’ — in exactly the same words for as long as it takes. ‘Eventually they will get bored and defeated and stop asking,’ she says.”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

The New Mendicants, “Shouting Match”

Tom Scocca in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

New York City, March 10, 2014

★★★ The clouds and the clock shift made it a labor even to begin the day. The effort was rewarded with the…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

The Briton Hadden Mausoleum Rotisserie

“To investigate the geography of selfie-taking, TIME built a database of more than 400,000…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Mar 11, 2014

When You Buy A Bunch Of Spider-Infested Bananas

“A family was forced to flee their home and have it fumigated after hundreds of potentially deadly spiders were found in a bunch of bananas bought at the local shop.”