Ancient Grains Archive
Great Female Commuters of NYC: A GIF Tale
Ancient Grains, Cartoons
Jan 14, 2014
A mystical animated journey!
I didn't even know you could do cartoons like this! --Nicole
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Middlemarch Book Club and Event Update!
Ancient Grains, Books
Jan 14, 2014
Two relevant pieces of information for Middlemarch book-clubbers:
1. Our next discussion will be Monday, January 20th at 2pm EST, and we will read...TO THE VERY END.
2. Last time, we talked about the wee meet-and-greet that Rebecca Mead will be doing for Toast readers prior to her NYPL event on January
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Link Roundup and Trans* Series Submissions Call!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Jan 14, 2014
Loved ones, I had the BEST weekend at my Zen ski camp, run by Kristen Ulmer, literally the coolest and sexiest and bravest woman in the world, and I'm still pretty high from it (I went
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Questions Brought On By The I, Frankenstein Trailer
Ancient Grains, Movies
Jan 13, 2014
1. Why would someone say "Frankenstein. The rumors are true" about a Frankenstein monster? There are no Frankenstein rumors; it was a book. Frankenstein isn't like vampires; there aren't old Central European legends about errant Frankensteins living in the woods and hating gargoyles. There aren't any Frankenstein rumors. There is a Frankenstein novel.
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Adventures in Vintage Window Shopping: The Princess Coat
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Jan 13, 2014
Holli Michele last wrote for The Toast about running a vintage shop without losing your mind.
So, I have a deep and abiding love of midcentury fashion: one that does not extend to wanting to live Back Then. Given a time machine, I'd zip out to 1953 for exactly long enough to
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If G.R.R. Martin Were A Science Reporter
Ancient Grains, Animals
Jan 13, 2014
"Three mountain lion kittens born last month in the Santa Monica Mountains were inbred, a wildlife expert said, marking a troubling sign for a population penned in by the urban sprawl of metropolitan Los Angeles.
Preliminary DNA tests indicate that the male and two females born in
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Gal Science: On Lava Flows and Glass
Ancient Grains, science
Jan 13, 2014
As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They’ll live here, so you can always find them. Most recently: In
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The Girls Run It: Left on Pearl and the 888 Memorial Drive Takeover
Ancient Grains, Feminism
Jan 13, 2014
On March 6, 1971 – International Women’s Day – 150 women veered from a march in support of women’s liberation, choosing instead to turn left on Pearl Street in Cambridge’s Central Square. The other protestors continued on their march from downtown Boston but for the breakaway, theirs was a different endpoint: 888
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