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This semi-intellectual defense of a kid’s book is perhaps a way of excusing the sparkly purple cape in my closet at home, or the way the pages of my four brightly-colored Potter books are lovingly smudged and worn while my Shakespeare reading remains woefully untouched. But I’m not alone. The weekend after I bought the fourth book, I saw countless grown-up muggles (what witches call people) carrying it on the subway or on the New York City street, and knew that when we opened the pages, we were all going...
Giovinco insists he wants the fraternity to be a place where men can feel at ease to reveal their true identities. “One thing that is hard for gay men is that you’ve been put into the closet until you’ve come out,” he says. “It’s hard to be real with people because you’ve been taught not to for so long...
While her collaborators expected her to write a piece reminiscent of her bestselling book The Overworked American, Schor decided to tackle a more accessible topic: fashion. In her chapter entitled “Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Fashion Ethic,” Schor attempts to find a happy medium between materialism and minimalism, filling the gap between thrift stores and Prada boutiques with well-made clothing produced by socially equitable relationships. She acknowledges that “a growing number of young people critique their generation’s slavish devotion to Abercrombie, North Face and Calvin, preferring...
...says. “I’ll be using clover honey.” Morange harkens back to the days, two years ago, when Sigma Chi made mead in their self-proclaimed “mead closet”—which happened to be the same closet space in Pfoho’s Belltower in which Herrera’s Senior Tutor Stout was brewed...
...like beverage that they describe as having a “coffee and chocolate flavor with licorice undertones to balance it out,” the beer got its title when their brewing operation was temporarily shut down by Pforzheimer House Senior Tutor Melissa Gray. The small Pfoho Belltower closet in which they were brewing turned out to be off-limits and was summarily locked up, as was the stout. Eventually, the closet was reopened so the two seniors could gather their things. These two have made a total of seven kinds of beer so far. Three will make...