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Different Strokes Even with a wetsuit, it feels like suicide. With each stroke away from the secluded beach, the swimmer becomes more aware that if he stops moving his limbs, the cold of the fifty-degree water will consume them. Within about ten...
[ Story by Meredith Jones ]
Thursday, May 15 2008 7:44 AM

Razor's Edge But American women didn’t always chain themselves to the razor—at the turn of the twentieth century, the practice of shaving leg and underarm hair was virtually nonexistent. After all, the fashion of the time didn’t require women to expose their figures; skirts typically reached the ankles, and sleeves covered the underarm area.
[ Story by Meredith Jones ]
Thursday, Apr 24 2008 8:00 AM

From [X]press Magazine: The art of snail mail While vacationing in Europe during 1975, John Held Jr. stepped into a rubber stamp store with the intention of buying some presents to take home to his kids. But when he saw the visual images reprinted in the stamps—pictures of...
[ Story by Meredith Jones and Kresta Rae Kaulupali ]
Wednesday, Dec 19 2007 8:21 PM

Family Portrait My dad was a sculptor, and my Mom worked in four different art museums while I was growing up. When I told other kids about my parents, the look on their faces was at best intrigued and at worst confused. Either way, I ended up feeling like a weirdo. Even though I tried to be my own person, with my own interests and aspirations, I often wondered, like so many kids, whether I would just end up like my parents.
[ Story by Meredith Jones ]
Thursday, Dec 13 2007 8:01 PM

Crafting Letters Held could not think of where he had ever seen stamps represented in artwork before, so when he went home to New York where he worked as a librarian and did some research to see what was out there. He discovered there was an entire network of artists who used rubber stamps to share their ideas and communicate back and forth through the mail.
[ Story by Meredith Jones ]
Thursday, Dec 13 2007 9:34 AM

Ready to Make Some Noise She hears similar remarks from men and women at all of her shows, no matter in what part of the country her band is playing. Although she admits the person is usually trying to give her praise, the sentiment is often backhanded. “I always pretend it’s a compliment, but what is implied is a little bit more depressing: that female musicians tend to disappoint people, that they have the expectation that we’ll be bad,” says Fay-Horowitz. “It’s like people are surprised that we’re good.”
[ Story by Meredith Jones ]
Tuesday, Nov 6 2007 12:16 PM

Peril in Pink If the modern woman were to look to Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 1971 book How to Catch a Man for guidance on how to shed the burden of being single, she may be shocked at the advice given in this self-help book: “The best way to attract a man immediately is to have a magnificent bosom and a half-size brain and let both of them show.”
[ Story by Meredith Jones ]
Tuesday, Nov 6 2007 12:09 PM

Controversial conversations A little girl sits in her sunny room looking at the box of crayons that her mother bought for her. They are not the regular box of typical colors, with a variety of primary and secondary colors with one "flesh"...
[ Story by Meredith Jones ]
Friday, Oct 12 2007 7:29 PM

[X]press Magazine Staff Experiences with Racism Brittany Price I was in the fifth grade when I started listening to hip-hop, way before it became a norm for white-suburbia. My parents outlawed any cd’s with those black and white stickers and frowned at the hours I spent...
[ Story by Staff ]
Friday, Oct 5 2007 11:56 AM

War's Solid Responses The war in Iraq is as controversial as it comes, sparking strong pro and anti-war sentiments. Most people simply voice their opinions for change. Then there are those who put their money where their mouth is. The following stories were...
[ Story by JOUR 595 ]
Wednesday, Feb 28 2007 5:12 PM