"Leigh Otley's Under the Table" Vol. 4, No. 44
Dallas is a city of social networks and pack-like bar migration. We are landlocked, air-conditioned and under construction together, so we will eventually eat,
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By Leigh Teresi
Spinning independently on the axis between fine art and journalism, the essay Slouching Towards Bethlehem juxtaposes objective reporting with unique narrative prose. Didion follows the basic tenets of journalistic formula: Who, What, When, Where,
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News that the quietly-famous author and longtime USC professor T.C. Boyle had just won a top book award swept across campus last week –but in fact, Drop City
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By Leigh Teresi
We are born into darkness. We are lied to consistently throughout our lives: Santa Clause, the tooth fairy, Vietnam... yet discovering a lie never gets any easier. If given the choice, humans
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By Leigh Teresi
“Fast Food Nation –The Dark Side of the All-American Meal” by Eric Schlosser was a New York Times Bestseller for 99 weeks. Schlosser, who works as a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly,
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By Leigh Teresi The HBO series Six Feet Under is an ironic repudiation of the media’s condescension toward its viewers. It combines complex storytelling, fully developed flawed characters and psychological
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A dream is an event transpiring in the world of the mind when the objective senses have withdrawn into oblivion. Dreams harbor a vast potential to lift us beyond the sphere of
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By Leigh Teresi
My education has profoundly affected my personal life, and vice versa. Required academia forces one to read, write and formulate ideas based on extensive research and by doing so the subject matter eerily manifests in daily life. The
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By Leigh Teresi
With each near-death experience I grow more enlightened, ambitious and unassuming. I used to stand at the moment of realization, seconds after what should have just killed me did not, and giggle uncontrollably. I would recount the saga
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