THE NEIGHBORHOOD OPTIONS IN HOUSTON—huge, sprawling, diverse Houston—are seemingly endless. Choosing which part of town suits you best is a challenge, equal parts exciting and overwhelming. Maybe you’d do anything to avoid a hefty commute to your office in the Galleria. Maybe you’re all about the quality of your kid’s school. Maybe you want walkable […]
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Far from the Turmoil of Home, Six Houston Artists Pursue Their Creative Dreams
Ammar Alobaidi knows what it’s like to arrive in a new country and have to learn everything all over again. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, he lived in Libya and Jordan before coming to Houston, in 2014, as a refugee. How would he get a driver’s license in this strange new place, 7,000 miles away from […]
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Introducing KHOLE – Korean Insult Punk
By Roxanna Asgarian June 6, 2014 on Brooklyn Based Kheedim Oh is a DJ and maker of Mama O’s Premium Kimchi, an artisanal brand of the Korean delicacy inspired by his mother’s recipe. Oh’s kimchi business is booming, with New York and New Jersey locations of Whole Foods selling the product, as well as retailers in […]
Embracing My Period at a Woodstock Moon Lodge
BY ROXANNA ASGARIAN 5/16/14 at 1:40 PM on The Cut, nymag.com We sit silently, the 12 of us women, in a wooded clearing on the 55-acre property of the Wise Woman Center. After a series of chants, dances, and songs, we settled in this circle from oldest to youngest, here on a farm outside of Woodstock, New […]
Watching “Girls” with girls: Sex, friendship and funerals
I was interviewed by Salon TV critic Neil Drumming for his weekly column, Watching GIRLS With Girls. This was first published on Salon. This week, we discuss improbable hookups, 15-year plans and Hannah’s inappropriate networking NEIL DRUMMING Hannah wants to know what’s going to happen with her book. Marnie wants to know what’s wrong with […]
Oakland Librarian Documents Notes Found in Library Books
By Roxanna Asgarian on January 10, 2014 in Library Journal Images Courtesy Oakland Public Library. Of the items librarian Sharon McKellar has found over her years at the Oakland Public Library, CA, she stumbled across one of her favorites pretty recently. It’s a film photograph, dated 3-26-98, of a chicken. “Gender’s class to Tilden,” someone has scribbled on the […]
Mo’s Is Not Moe’s: A Brooklyn Business Tale
First Published June 23, 2011 in New York Press. It was 6 p.m., and after a long, boring Wednesday at the office I hopped off at the G train two stops away from mine, at Fulton Street. I’d stopped here often over the last nine months or so, to grab a drink at Moe’s before […]
The View from the Street
First published in The Local blog of the New York Times May 26, 2011 and a longer version appeared on Changing NYC, a website of the New York City News Service. Most nights, you can find Gilbert Kelly sweeping the sidewalks of Grand Avenue on the block between Putnam and Gates. As he sweeps, he […]
Beating Around the Bush
ROXANNA ASGARIAN wanted a relaxing experience. Instead, she received a massage with no happy ending. By Roxanna Asgarian Published Wednesday, February 16,2011 in New York Press I WAS HAVING A hell of a week. The muscles of my body had been gripping my insides even as I slept, so I decide to splurge and get […]