Coffee Talk

By Marissa Rotolo I opened my computer, and I had seven tabs open. My iMessage was in the background, and my music was on. I haven’t cleared the cache on my phone in what feels like months. The news is always on when my family eats dinner, and sometimes my thoughts drown my pillow. The world is loud. There’s no escaping the tabs we keep open in real life, but psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner reminds us that we don’t develop in isolation — we develop within context. Bronfenbre

By Marissa Rotolo Once upon a time, an album cover defined an era. Over the last few years, the classic album rollout has been upended in pop music. The birth (or epidemic) of album variants has crowded the face of pop music. Where there used to be one image that encapsulated an entire body of work, recently, artists have developed multiple alternative covers. While critics point to the wastefulness and tone-deaf expectation of multiple purchases, the proliferation of covers

By Marissa Rotolo Esperanza Funk / @efunk260 via Pinterest Eyes follow the fateful click-clack  of a heel across a barroom floor — the...