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Sustainable Apartment Renovation Before and After: The Kitchen

In the next installment of my apartment renovation reveal, I’ll show you how I gutted and redid the entire kitchen, as sustainably as possible. Not that there was much there to begin with. The old particle board kitchen cabinets, which were showing significant wear and tear, were shoved in the...

Beauty

Photos: The Sustainable Summer Fest Proves Sustainable Partying Is Better

by Alden Wicker
Jul 16, 2014

As Emma Grady and I danced on top of the DJ booth under the softly-glowing lights strung across the dance floor, I tapped her shoulder and pointed behind us. An orange Super Moon was rising above the warehouses of Bushwick. “Wow,” was all she could say. Wow, indeed. It was the...

Fashion

News You Must Know: Oh, THAT’s Why You’re Pooping so Much

by Alden Wicker
Nov 8, 2013

Everybody is talking about this feature on the never-to-be-topped, 80s club Area. Researchers DNA tested a range of herbal supplements, and found that they were more diluted and adulterated than drugs bought at a music festival. Some pills had nothing but useless, powerfully-diuretic filler. Obama issued an executive order to...

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