Margit’s Note: Ho Ho Hectic
At the risk of sounding Scrooge, I too, would love to ban “busy” — the holiday kind of busy. Not so much the word, but the whole concept. Lately, I… Read More
Issues
Trip This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Hey, Let’s Take a Trip!
I’m hearing that Jonathan Richman song, “Let’s Take a Trip.” He rocks out, “I’ve got my jeans and things and I’m ready to go.” The idea of quickly packing up… Read More
Thank You This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Hey, Thanks
It’s a rough day to try and be thankful. But there is something almost apropos that the Ferguson decision happened only a few days before Thanksgiving. Daring us to find our… Read More
Loss This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: What We Leave Behind
As we get older, there’s more and more we leave behind. Or we packrat it up in a plastic bin and try to hold on. But with people, places —… Read More
Period This Last Month's Issue
A Bloody Good Issue
(Graphic: Kat Borosky/ TueNight) Period. What other word can simultaneously represent major “ugh” as well as the most innocuous of punctuation? We’re moving through blood, space and time — backwards… Read More
Men This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: One From the Guys
Attending an all-girls grade school will mess you up a little. You’ll think you can do anything you want as a girl. Leaders become leaders and followers become followers, gender… Read More
Jeans This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Jean Genie
(Photo Credit: Kone/Veer.com) I know you have one, too. An under-the-bed plastic bin stuffed with several pairs of jeans that for one reason or another are not in regular rotation…. Read More
Lists This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Your Kiss Is On My List
Buy paper towels. Send this post to best friend who should totally be reading TueNight. Read local voters guides to prep for important November 4 midterm election. Buy Ruby Jon… Read More
Power This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Flick on the Switch
We turn on the light and we don’t think much about it. Behind that switch plate are wires that run through the wall, out to the street, on to a power… Read More
School Bus This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Can I Sit Here?
I feel a little ill-qualified to discuss this week’s issue. I don’t have little ones going off to school and I very rarely took a school bus. If we couldn’t… Read More
Fad This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Ooo la la Sasson
(Illustration by Kat Borosky/TueNight) This week, as a prelude to New York’s Fashion Week, we’re all about Fads. Because as we know one week you’re in, the next you’re out,… Read More
Camp This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Are You My New Bunkmate?
For some, camp is first-time-away-from-home ecstasy; for others, it’s the ultimate bug-juice-induced torture. And this week — as former campers and parents of campers — we cover the gamut. I… Read More
Concerts This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Lighters Up
(Photo: Eric R./Flickr) In the ‘80s and into the ‘90s, stadium concerts were smoky, sweaty affairs. Pot was prolific, security was meh, the shows legendary. You’d always ditch your ticketed… Read More
Wife This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: The Wife Issue
(Photo: Nancy Gonzalez/TueNight) “This is my wife…” At a cocktail party, the phrase is inserted before my name. It says, “I go with this person.” Does it immediately imply I make casseroles and iron… Read More
Tears This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: We’re Getting All Emotional
Over what? The national anthem. This commercial. That time you truly didn’t hear what I said… Crying heals the soul. It uncorks the pain. But even in tears of joy,… Read More
BFF This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Will You Be Mine?
Hello Friend. I miss you. We were attached at the hip for over a decade. You were my “plus one” at rock shows. I learned to love camping (even if I… Read More
Second Hand This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: I’ll Sell It To You For a Dollar
Hey cats, We’re out haggling for great bargains this week, so just a quick note about our fabulous Second-Hand issue. We’ve stocked this ish with thrift shops, sidewalk sales, vintage… Read More
Beach This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Beach Blanket Bust
I never really dug the beach, for all the obvious reasons. Hot, sticky, sand in butt, burning body, sharks in water. In the early ‘90s, my friend Diane used to… Read More
Trigger This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Trigger Words
(Photo: Adrianna Dufay/ TueNight) Cue, feeling: A sprig of mint in a cube-jingling glass of iced tea = My grandmother (famous for her refreshing mint tea) + relaxation + it’s… Read More
Break Up This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: I Break With Thee
(Graphic: Helen Jane Hearn/TueNight.com) As kids, my sister, brother and I used to listen to Steve Martin’s Wild and Crazy Guy album nonstop. (Thank you, Columbia Record and Tape Club.)… Read More
Pop This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Hiya Pop
(Photo: Nancy Gonzalez, TueNight) We’re all about Pop this week. And we don’t mean our daily can of carbonated fizz. We’re talking about dear old Dad. Corny jokes, clutch advice… Read More
Tasty This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Take a Bite
Chewy, juicy, sour, sweet, spicy, yum. This week we’re smacking our lips, sharing our recipes and unveiling a brand new column — “Tasty Life,” by former Washington Post food columnist and… Read More
Gigs This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: It’s Just a Job I Do…
Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney make their dreams come true. (Photo: Paramount Network Television) We’ve all had weird gigs. Just after college I worked part time at a 19th century… Read More
Outside This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Good Day Sunshine
We’ve been holed up… It has been a long, hard winter here on this coast of the country, and now we squint into the sunlight, bare our legs and arms,… Read More
Sleep 2 This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Are You Up?
I am too tired to write this editor’s note for our second SLEEP issue. So I decided to delegate. You fancy folks call it “crowdsourcing.” To that end, I posed… Read More
Mom This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: Are You My Mother?
Last year in our “Mother” issue, we talked about the simultaneously hilarious, humbling and, ok, sometimes irritating experience of turning into our Mothers. This year, we’re honoring the many ways… Read More
Sport This Last Month's Issue
Margit’s Note: We’ve Got Game
Ah, gym class. The girl driving down the court for the reverse layup. The girl smoking clove cigarettes behind the bleachers. You might have been one or the other, or a… Read More