Month: July 2014

Summer is ending. That means Nola Studiola returns to its monthly-curated format. Different artists in and out of New Orleans take over the blog on a monthly basis and determine content according to their artistic needs. Studiola’s curator for August 2014 is Christianne Sanchez Robinson. Christianne is an attorney in Houston, Texas, who claims to be someone who […]

My boyfriend LB grows a great mustache. Mustache success has been achieved by these notable figures: Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck, Ron Swanson, Attorney General Eric Holder, Carl Pavano. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Walter Cronkite, Martin Luther King, Jr., my uncle Sam Ripley. Adam Tschorn, who covers men’s grooming, style and pop culture for the Los […]

What am I doing lately? I’m binge-watching Parks and Recreation via Netflix streaming, and reading. This past weekend, I finished this year’s Lambda Literary Foundation‘s selection for its Bisexual Fiction award, Susan Choi’s My Education. A first-person narrative about first love, circling the drain, careening into and out of academia, and sex–oh, and growing up. I loved […]