MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY:

Alexa Tsoulis-Reay

  1. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Be a 58-Year-Old VirginYears and years of loneliness.
  2. atypical
    What It’s Like to Be Covered in ScalesWhat it’s like to watch your body transform, permanently, for the worse.
  3. atypical
    What It’s Like to Be Covered in ScalesWhat it’s like to watch your body transform, permanently, for the worse.
  4. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Date a HorseExploring the secretive world of zoophilia.
  5. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Date a HorseExploring the secretive world of zoophilia.
  6. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Remember Almost Everything That Has Ever Happened to YouThe benefits and downsides of hardly ever forgetting.
  7. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Remember Almost Everything That Has Ever Happened to YouThe benefits and downsides of hardly ever forgetting.
  8. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Have a MicropenisThere is a lot of embarrassment.
  9. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Have a MicropenisThere is a lot of embarrassment.
  10. The Tipping Economy
    We Are the 20%: What Tips Mean to Servers, Bartenders, Doormen, and BaristasYour server is definitely judging you.
  11. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Have a Condition That Gives You Extremely Terrible Body OdorYou have to think a lot about your diet, for one thing.
  12. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Have a Condition That Gives You Extremely Terrible Body OdorYou have to think a lot about your diet, for one thing.
  13. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Be Cripplingly Afraid of VomitingIt involves day after day of obsessively monitoring your body for signs of illness that aren’t really there.
  14. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Be Cripplingly Afraid of VomitingIt involves day after day of obsessively monitoring your body for signs of illness that aren’t really there.
  15. fall preview 2014
    33 Fall TV Shows to Look Out ForHow to Get Away With Murder, Black-ish, Gracepoint, and more.
  16. fall preview 2014
    64 Movies to Watch This FallFrom blockbusters to indies.
  17. summer guide 2014
    110 Diversions: Things to Watch, Hear, Read, and Do, All Summer LongThe new Tom Cruise, Dave Chappelle at Radio City, Morrissey in Brooklyn, literary thrillers, and more.
  18. One Night, Two WaysSizing up the latest like-minded spots for girls, gays, and selfie-taking scenesters.
  19. Choose Your BoozeWhere to find beer, wine, or a Captain Badass in 11 neighborhoods. A guide for the discerning local drinker.
  20. Remixed DrinksTen bright young cocktailers show off their recent creations.
  21. For Your HangoverCall these specialists to repair your liver, face, or dropped–at–3 a.m. iPhone.
  22. The Bushwick BarsplosionSixteen cocktail lounges, beer halls, and art bars that set up shop in the neighborhood this year.
  23. A Beer Above the GowanusNew rooftop bars for every outdoor carouser.
  24. The Urbanist’s MelbourneRooftop mai tais, custom denim shops, and jalapeño doughnuts.
  25. Bill Clinton Killed 50 PeopleNot directly, of course.
  26. Don’t Trust TsunamisAmong the evidence cited by believers is former Defense secretary William S. Cohen’s 1997 warning about the threat of an ecotype of terrorism wh […]
  27. These Towers Control the World’s WeatherHigh Frequency Active Auroral Research Program / Gakona, Alaska / 1993-20013
  28. Adelaide Instead of SydneyLike its eastern cousin Sydney, Adelaide has eclectic cuisine, idyllic beaches, Shiraz wineries, and kangaroo-spotting galore—but with a fractio […]
  29. Fall Preview 2013
    Assessing Fall’s Scene-iest New Nightlife SpotsThe fab five.
  30. A Brief History of Revenge PornA few years ago, having your compromising photos fall into the wrong hands was a nightmare scenario. Now it’s a genre.
  31. The Evolution of the Hook-Up AppSince 1690.
  32. history lesson
    Tracing the Career of Tween-Lit Doyenne Judy BlumeAfter 44 years, her first feature-film adaptation, Tiger Eyes, arrives next week.
  33. The Barhopper’s PlaybookTen drinking hubs, 30 new bars, and not one good excuse for staying in.
  34. Big in New YorkEpically sprawling bars are major for spring. Here, a by-the-numbers breakdown.
  35. books
    The Nine Circles of Dan BrownOn May 14, dark prince of conspiracy-based historical thrillery will release his latest, whose first printing of 4 million copies all but guarantees that it’ll be a giant hit—and that it will create lots of extra work for everybody.
  36. Fall Preview
    Bartenders Forecast Fall’s Most Promising Drink TrendsMezcal breaks through, cocktails get bottled, and more.
  37. Pull OverStop-and-go itineraries as recommended by champions of four road trips.
  38. Superheroes of the Foot-Care AisleEndorsed by people whose feet are their livelihood.
  39. What Does Your Drink Say About You?Six strangers in an East Village bar reflect on their own drink orders and analyze one another’s.
  40. They’ll Spoil Your Dog Every MonthHenrik Werdelin, Carly Strife, and Matt Meeker, Co-founders of BarkBox
  41. ObamanalysisThe latest entries in a thriving subfield: long-distance psychological analysis of the 44th president.
  42. The Pharmacist Who Tries Not to Judge You by Your Prescriptions“I notice the same faces and names coming in month after month after month, refilling a Xanax prescription.”