When Thanksgiving rolled around I spent all my money on alcohol, and was left eating potatoes every meal for two weeks.

Someone has figured out how to make vegan poached eggs???

The world is full of horrible things and the mayor is a giant snake-monster and the hellmouth is open but Maggie slept over!

The bowl: an unassuming mix of a protein, veggie and grain, perhaps with some kind of sauce, quick to cook and eaten all in the same dish. (Not a smoothie bowl. Those are bullshit, sorry.)

These delicious, uncomplicated recipes can serve lots of hungry people without forcing you to spend the whole day in the kitchen and/or all of the money. Huzzah!

I need to learn how to cook these motherf*ckers, because I’m just totally and completely intrigued by their prickly exteriors and absolutely delicious spirits.

Musician Julia Nunes on her kickstarter, her new album, her relationship with Dannielle Owens-Reid and that time she almost fell into the toilet before opening for Ben Folds.

“I don’t like cheesecake,” she said. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

The Prodigal Daughter of White Trojan Horsery has returned to Litchfield, minus her bespectacled toxic popsicle and plus a newer harder attitude. What adventures await our little vanilla wafer? Time can only tell, inmating ritualists.

It might be June, but Kate’s still in school – in England! She’s spending her rainy summer days memorizing Shakespeare and sorting through ancient books.

“…I questioned whether or not Autostraddle is a lesbian cult and if it isn’t, how I’m going to deal with my like peaking.” Want to know the context of this sentiment? You need to read this interview and meet Grace.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you daikon, make your own holiday!

The South is notoriously friendly. It is also notoriously bigoted. In 2006, the year I moved to Nashville, an anti-marriage equality proposition passed. It felt like a slap in the face and a sign to leave. Six years later, I couldn’t be more happy that I stayed.

The magic of congee though is that congee is whatever you dream for it to be.

Because rice noodles are nice noodles.

Some delicious and healthy soup for your snowy winter afternoons.

Someone just let Angelica honk the horn. already because shit is going DOWN in the season finale. Phyllis, Jodi, and Adele want it their way and Shane’s fucking [it all up] again but at least Helena and her money are here to save The Planet. Because where would be be without The Planet?

It’s music festival season! Where are you going this year and, more importantly, do you have an extra ticket?

The L Word’s almost over!! Two short-but-sweet weeks from now, we’ll all be forced to look at each others’ faces and speak words to each other about actual life instead of funneling all our feelings into fictional characters who change personalities every season and often disappear suddenly without warning/explanation.

If you forget the whole child-rape-flashback thing, the Papa Porter dying thing, the Helena-wasting-time-Tina-could-be-with-Bette thing, the paper-dolls/Baruch Atah LaLa Hoolehay Heeyhoooo thing, the Marc pantsing himself thing (when he really should just write “fuck me” on his chest) and the Jenny/Random Elder thing, Loud and Proud is one of the series’ best episodes. Let me rephrase this: if “The L Word” was “The Dana & Alice Show,” Loud and Proud would be one of THAT show’s best episodes.