Nothing lasts forever, including a career in which drunk men sprinkle cash on the young and beautiful. When it's time to leave the industry, it's your job as a savvy dancer to be prepared for the leap into normie life. Sooner or later, the inevitable will happen in one of two ways: either you, the elderly stripper, will become too old to compete with younger girls and bad hips, or you, the prepared and wise stripper, will find a way to outline your industry escape plan before you start getting forced into day shift rotation...

Although I stated in a previous article that being alone was completely healthy and fine, there is a large line between being alone and suffering isolation in the country. The country has many beautiful and varied things to offer. Wide-open, sprawling fields, that as a child probably made you look out the window of a car and wish you could just run through it for some reason (you’d probably break your ankle at this point), cows, solitude (if you like that), country folk who have their own sense of politeness and justice, more cows, some horses, chickens—but for some reason, people in the city also decided that they wanted to become farmers and house them in their tiny yard, and critters...

Readers may remember I covered We Are Everywhere Festival in last year’s August issue. Hopefully it intrigued you enough to go check out the film festival, the pole competition, the art gallery, or all three, if you weren’t lame.

One of the main goals of the event’s organizer and founder, Areem Rose, was to do it again the following year—and, if possible, the year after that.

Thanks to the elbow grease and can-do attitude of Rose and her collaborators from last year—Cloud Stokely and Nikki Lev —and a little financial support from the RACC fund, it looks like Rose achieved those goals...

Throughout time, many have speculated on what magical technology we would have in what is now the future. From space colonies to crazy robots that would do all the labor, there have been many ideas about what the future would be like. A life of comfort and ease, or labor replaced by machines, like in the Jetsons. Sounds great, right? Well, let us look at what predictions from the past have come true in the future—which is now the present. Soul-crushing depression not included in this bargain bin. That said, we will explore the things people thought we would have by now, silly though some might b...