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Bake A Giant Cookie of Love
This is the first in a RED Hearts series of spring-into-summer recipes—things you can cook or bake, usually healthy things, always easy things—for the people you heart. Served up by Erika Kwee, 23, “the baker, photographer and typo-maker” behind vegetarian food blog The Pancake Princess
Little brothers can ...
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By Erika Kwee, 23, reporting from Houston, TX, on adorable animal kits that extend knitting season to spring.
It seems The Longest Winter in History, or at least in my memory, is finally showing signs of ending. I say this, enough already, and I live in Texas, where the season is relatively gentle (read: I just turned on the A/C in my ...
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By RED editor Amy Goldwasser, reporting from NYC on a new documentary that's actually true to teens.
Is it ever refreshing to see a documentary called Teenage—and to see that it doesn’t include a single cliché or overgeneralization about, after all, millions and millions of people. Not a locker or a pep rally or an easy-label ...
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By Carey Dunne, 24, reporting from Brooklyn, NY, on a publishing project that transforms pages—and lives.
In high school, it can be all too easy to feel like you don’t have a voice. You’re often at the mercy of grownups who seem to think they know better than you. Outlets for sharing opinions that are truly your own and stories with a community ...
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By Zoe Mendelson, 24, reporting from Brooklyn, NY, on a band she loves so much it sounds like she's lying
The Tuaregs, an ancient nomadic tribe that inhabits the Sahara and North Africa, are known as the fiercest of fighters. You may have seen them in movies—usually as bands of men with scarves around their heads who rob the good guys ...
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By Jordyn Turney, 24, reporting from Nampa, Idaho, on a standout of a sci-fi show.
Talk about wishes for the New Year: Kiera Cameron is a cop from the year 2077 stuck in the present, our present, after getting sent back in time when a terrorist gang sentenced to death escaped by traveling to the past.
Now the only thing she wants is to get ...
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By Zulay Regalado, 25, reporting from Miami, FL, on the coolest styles for the warmer climates.
For those of us who live in south Florida, with its round-the-calendar sunshine and quick drives to the beach, winter is pretty much a dream. The unforgiving tropical humidity may destroy my chances at frizz-free holiday hair, but hey, I can wear a ...
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By Zoe Mendelson, 23, reporting from Brooklyn, NY, on Chance the Rapper....who she tutored in high school.
I have to say, I’m definitely a little biased about Chance the Rapper. Because if I can brag for a sec, I did introduce him to Wu-Tang Clan back when Chance the Rapper was a chubby little prepubescent rabble rouser. I was his tutor in high ...
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by RED editor Amy Goldwasser, reporting from NYC on the cool theme of activism that connected us in 2013
One of my favorite things about editing RED Hearts—about being an editor in general—is that you have such a close, ongoing relationship with the writing that you notice certain themes and trends sneaking in. I’m not talking about ...
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By Maria Camila Henao, 23, reporting from NYC on a bright new website, Given Goods Co., where gifts go a very long, important way
I don’t want to sound too presumptuous here, but every time I ask a friend or family member what they want for Christmas or their birthday or graduation, they always say, “You have the best taste. Whatever you get ...