Zoe Marquedant

Don’t You Want Me, Baby asks: what is rejection? How do you phrase it? How do you take it? What makes it past the sensors? Is there a long German word for refreshing your email on decision day? Each installment, we’ll hear from different sides of the literary magazine submission process. From writers, editors, readers, volunteers. Maybe we’ll learn the secret ingredients, the rituals, the rules that need to be broken. Maybe we’ll all just agree to retitle our PDFs and try again.
Name: Aaron B...

What does it mean to be an artist? Do you, as a creative, have to claim some type of ownership within the realm of your medium in order for it to really count? Do you get paid to create? To what extent does that matter when it comes to establishing an identity? These are questions that artists grapple with, especially in an age when ~personal branding~ is sold to us as absolutely essential and visibility is all but inescapable. So, how do we deal with these quandaries in our day-to-day lives?...

Danish architect Stine Gam and Italian architect Enrico Fratesi form the husband-and-wife duo GamFratesi. After studying architecture together, the two founded the studio in 2006...

Schitt’s Creek has a pretty unpitiable premise. Wealthy couple, Johnny and Moira Rose, find themselves broke after Mr. Rose’s business manager makes off with their fortune. The Roses and their two thirty-something children, David and Alexis, are then forced to relocate to the nowhere town of Schitt’s Creek, given it’s the only property the IRS left them. The pilot episode finds the family moving into the Schitt’s Creek motel...

The world of Netflix’s now-cancelled series Tuca & Bertie (2019) is ridiculous from the title sequence. If you’re unfamiliar with creator Lisa Hanawalt‘s work (eg, Bojack Horseman) and her undefined line between human, animal, and hybrid, it may take a few frames for your brain to calibrate...

In her latest music video, Taylor Swift takes a rather uncharacteristic stance on LGBTQIA+ rights. After a long period of benefitting from her own silence on the matter, Swift has finally made a statement with “You Need to Calm Down.” Featuring a gaggle of queer celebs, the video is undoubtedly the pop stars attempt at saying, ‘love is love’. However, one element that Swift got glaringly wrong was her depiction of hate.

A graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Louis Weisdorf devoted his early career to exploring a multitude of fields, ranging from graphic to industrial design. Of particular import, was his tenure at the Tivoli amusement park in Copenhagen where he served alongside chief architect Simon P Henningsen. These early days spent designing public parks and recreational spaces clearly impacted Weisdorf’s later output -- emerging in the repetition, layers, and folds of his work...

What do we do for our own sake? Binge watch all of Westworld in a single weekend, eat an entire box of mac and cheese in one sitting, major in nonfiction? Few of us can say that we are truly productive in these actions. Sure Netflix may be comforting and relaxing, but how good is it for us actually?

Read about the comeback of cassettes, and where you can find cassettes in Boston. Cassettes are growing in popularity despite an increasingly digital world....

Taco Bell is shit. I know this. It’s not Mexican food, Tex-Mex, or some other hyphenated equivalent. It’s mass-marketed meat product. It’s baby food that’s impossible to decipher into separate body parts or separate animals. Which of Ol’ MacDonald’s charges was liquified and pressed to make this? Who knows. I had an uncle who once shook his head in reference to the chain and said, “I feed my dogs better.” The man voted for Trump, so I jump at any opportunity to disprove his opinion...

I was once in a small Virginia college town having Greek food for lunch when the proprietor asked my name for my order, and I said Zoe. The guy nodded slowly and handed me a giant slice of baklava, free of charge. So the Greek thing is usually a perk...

Touring is an exciting benchmark for a band. That first five-show lap through your hometown is a memorable time. When you move on to larger circuits and start playing shows outside of your regular region and your comfort zone, the process gets longer and more complicated. You may be playing shows in a country where you don't know the language, the currency, or your way around. To prepare, here are 10 things you'll definitely want to bring on your first international tour.

We all have memories of money. A first paycheck, a dollar taped above the register, a crisp $20 in a birthday card. Memories of real, physical money. That shared experience will fade as we move into a more cashless, credit-based world that favors the Bitcoin enthusiast over the Benjamin. Of course, anything still marked as legal tender has to be treated as such, but what will happen as the world of money becomes digital? Right now, digital money is king but, there are still some irreplaceable or at least some nonreplicable aspects of money-in-hand that Venmo can’t have. One of those is the $2.

Here in the Age of Adaptations, when even roller coaster rides can become multi-million dollar franchises, it is easy to forget that the act of turning one art form into another is nothing short of alchemy. Cats is an example of that strange transmogrification, having been born from mere letters then metamorphosed into a musical, a movie, and now a remake due out in December.

These days most people need a stainless steel, double-walled, vacuum insulated water bottle just to help them remember to drink their recommended two liters a day. If we can’t water our persons, what hope do our house plants have? Luckily, there are several easily integrated habits that will help you get better at keeping your plants healthy.
First, it may help to understand why your plant needs water in the first place. Like all living things, plants need water to survive. Specifically, wate...