This week I’m visiting Bath Beach, a small neighborhood on the southwest shore of Brooklyn bordering Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst. Some would say it is part of Bensonurst, but not me, mainly because I discovered that after I wrote this whole thing. Though it was named after the medieval spa city of Bath in England, Bath Beach has no spa to speak of. Well, that’s not entirely true. After scouring Yelp, I found out that there is, in fact, one spa in the neighborhood, the Angel Day Spa, located at 1938 86th St.

This month has seen historic action from an esports Player’s Association as the North American LCS Players Association (NALCSPA) have voted to walkout on their commitments to playing in the league ahead of the opening weekend. This move is the first of its kind in League of Legends and one of the few times in the history of esports that players have mobilised against other stakeholders in the esports ecosystem.

One gray day in October 1988, a red helium balloon rose from the earth through drizzling rain, reaching the end of its 250-foot tether to show the crowd how high the tower would go. Peering from under umbrellas as they stood near heaps of rubble in downtown Spartanburg, South Carolina, a crowd of hundreds witnessed the groundbreaking of a monumental structure. They didn’t know it at the time, but they were standing at the base of the Denny’s Tower.

Everything Is An Emergency By Bess Stillman I'm Bess Stillman: ER doctor, writer, and wife to Jake Seliger, who is currently dying of SCC of the tongue. I write about the challenges of being corporeal. Here you'll find essays on life, death, cancer, love, health & healthcare. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaOx0qyqraGcobqiug%3D%3D

Hi y’all! I’m back! And I’m coming in swinging with a review of Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker. Acker was an experimental writer from New York who wrote novels that were transgressive both in their form and in their subject matter (Blood and Guts is composed of straightforward narrative, poetry, illustrations, essays, fairytales, stage directions, and more; it’s also fairly pornographic and filled with sexual violence including incest, child sexual assault, abortions, rape, prostitution).