I don’t think I was alone in my temptation to throw an undergarment or two at Mr. Glass, as slick at storytelling as Elvis was at hip-swiveling.

It was one of those situations, one we’ve come upon a few times, where it was probably better if the people around us simply assumed we were just a group of silly, stoned hippies.

“Many people say we can’t or shouldn’t improve the gun laws in this country. I’m part of the next generation. I reject that premise, and I say we can and should do better.”

Tonya delivered them to my office in festive packaging, and my heart melted even more than the icing.

That’s what it costs to eat healthy on $30 a week: time.

I don’t know why you’re not supposed to roll both sides, but Jake always tells me not to.

Putting them in the pan on the stove with some oil might add a tiny bit of fried goodness, and there’s nothing wrong with that

We all know a little better than to gorge ourselves on sugar, but come to face the unfortunate fact that we’re programmed to want it.

Liz’s own Collard-Cabbage Stir Fry: from Living in Food Poverty Week 3

Jake’s Honey Oat Wheat Bread: from Living in Food Poverty Week 3

4 large potatoes, thinly sliced 2 medium-sized yellow onions, sliced about as thin As much kale as you want Any broccoli you might have 1/2 cup Earth Balance (vegan butter) 1/2 cup flour 2 cups boiling water (or part water, part vegetable broth if you can afford the luxury) 1 cup soy milk 1 cup [...]

(These are basically Indian sourdough pancakes/flat breads) 3 cups white Basmati rice 1 cup urad daal (white lentils) 3/4 tsp fenugreek seeds Salt to taste Oil (vegetable, olive, sunflower, whatever) Wash the rice and urad daal and soak them in a bowl overnight. The next morning, drain all the water from the rice and urad [...]

A warm, filling, and delicious meal for two for approximately fifty cents. How could we have ever been tricked into thinking that the dollar menu was ever a good deal?

How to manage eating off of 30 dollars a week… Impressive? We think so.

Enjoy… Black Bean Burgers. A simple, easy vegan meal.

The premise: Jake and I spend $30 total on our food per week for a month. We won’t be eating any fast food or Ramen. We want to show that it is possible to eat well, even if you aren’t getting paid well.

Our private lives may be lived behind physically closed doors, but as long as we’re logged in, the doors are really wide open.

Singing Jews, more Jack Rebney, neat way to get good art, and a horrible child.

Here are ten things Liz McInternety loves about the Internet right now.

Teaching someone how to write is essentially giving them the only tool they need besides an imagination (which I believe still comes standard in humans) to build their own universes.

I don’t know about anywhere else, but in Blacksburg, sometimes the wind blows so fast it’s hard to breathe – it was one of those days.

The Library of Congress will be acquiring the entire Twitter archive for historical reference. With over 50 million tweets a day, after all, some of those are bound to be important, right?

Patrick Rothfuss will be reading at Prince Books in Norfolk on Friday and at Books A Million in VB on Saturday.

Our social media expert tells you how to thwart the new Google swarm.

She dyed her hair dark – maybe to match her music. The formerly tow-headed British singer-songwriter Laura Marling is what I would have aspired to be at 20 years old. Basically, I think she’s brilliant.

The old guard methods of marketing like billboards and–ugh–newspapers are sooo 20th Century.

A New York journalist is forced into the life of a yogi in the documentary “Enlighten Up!” Sweating and cynicism ensue.

Continued from Part 1 Steve can’t understand how more and more people not only are reluctant to look for new music, but get stuck in ruts that were formed before they were born. “There is a younger and younger sector of people who come in here and buy records, and to a smaller extent CDs [...]

Steve Athey, owner of Skinnie’s Records in Norfolk, talks about his status as an endangered species, the beautiful sound of vinyl, and what’s wrong with the local music scene.