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“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year.” Steve Jobs said this almost 15 years ago. How, then, do you get people’s attention?

With lyrics like, “Skirt chasing, freebasing, killing every village. We drink and rob and rhyme and pillage,” it’s no wonder they ushered in the dubiously credible genre, “frat rap.” But not long after the Beasties emerged into the limelight of sold-out arenas, they began to question their image...

The overall perception of the U.S. economy during the COVID pandemic has been one of loss. Austin alone has seen the closure of almost 1,700 businesses; however, Austin has continued to grow...

But somewhere along the line, I let an MLM convince me I needed a twelve-step program for my skin. Hundreds of dollars bought me cleanser, toner, primer and various foundations — elixirs in pots and tubes in soothing blue colors that promised to stop time and the unbearable horrors of *gasp* wrinkles...

Much to my feminist mom’s dismay, I loved pink and bows and lace and all things “girly.” Another obsession that caused Mom to grit her teeth? Barbies...

One thousand dead crickets in a box. That’s what I’m looking at right now. If that sounds like the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard, to be fair, they were supposed to be alive...

The African Republic of Burundi has the 12th highest child mortality rate in the world. In a country where the leading cause of death is waterborne contaminants...

Her only son, Michael, took his own life in 2015. To begin to understand, we travel back into Davina’s childhood - a place, though painful, she goes willingly...

Healthcare in the United States is a business — subject to significant governmental regulation and tied to federally funded programs — but largely affected by the capitalism of private enterprise. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this; it’s the way we do the business of healthcare that trips us up...

Most adults remember to capitalize the right things – proper names, days of the week, specific geographic locations – but what do you capitalize erroneously? I bet, if you go back and look at the last thing you wrote, you’ll find some word you blessed with a capital letter that doesn’t warrant it...