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Comida Cantina serves customers outdoors on its rooftop deck. It has live music and occasional yoga classes on the deck, too.

Open Tab: Comida Cantina offers flavorful food, wherever you eat it

October 14, 2020

The Monthly While dining at Comida Cantina on Central Street, it’s easy to feel like it’s been serving customers its Mexican and Latin American-inspired cuisine for years. Wait staff talk...

Young Natasha Trethewey with her mother and father. In her new memoir “Memorial Drive,” she writes about her childhood and the tragic loss of her mother.

Memorial for a Mother

October 14, 2020

The Monthly One of the most devastating passages of Natasha Trethewey’s “Memorial Drive” arrives halfway through the memoir, in the chapter “You Know.” After 80 pages describing Trethewey’s...

Concerts Crush Covid

Concerts Crush Covid

October 14, 2020

The Monthly When the COVID-19 pandemic started, performance venues and live-shows were at a standstill. Even as restrictions began to lift and states began to allow gatherings, health risks for live...

A still from “Class Action Park.” The HBO documentary takes a deep dive into a dangerous water park, and all the trauma that came from it.

Reel Thoughts: HBO documentary “Class Action Park” provides thrills and chills

October 14, 2020

The Monthly To read about Action Park is one thing. Last summer, Sports Illustrated published a piece on the New Jersey phenomenon known as Action Park, a water park with seemingly zero rules and...

Gender, Politics, Policy

Gender, Politics, Policy

October 14, 2020

The Monthly Emily Ramshaw (Medill ‘03) spent part of the 2016 election cycle on maternity leave. When she saw how conversations about female candidates revolved around “electability”...

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