Skip to content
the smart set

Tag: california

§

04/24/2023

The Locus

A Writer's Quest for a City That Inspires

by Thomas Leclair

§

02/01/2021

Paradise Lost

Climate change, disability rights, and prison labor

by Jennifer Tennant

§

01/07/2021

The Time to Worry about Chinatown

The neighborhood survived racism, gentrification, and even a city-leveling earthquake, but might be done in by COVID-19

by Arvind Dilawar

§

10/15/2020

Golden State

Beyond pathologies

by Christa Laib

§

05/07/2020

Step by Step

Guess Who's Coming to Nevada Falls?

by Nikki Carter

§

01/30/2020

Catastober

Disaster prep

by Shannon Cassidy

§

02/01/2018

Jasmine and the Good Life

Time waits for no place

by Alexander Craghead

§

12/11/2008

Stadium Seating

by Karl Taro Greenfeld

§

06/12/2008

Monkey Brain

by Steve Wilson

§
  • Support the Smart Set
  • Submissions
  • Contributors
  • Contact Us

the smart set is an online magazine covering culture and ideas, arts and science, global and national affairs- everything from literature to shopping, medicine to sports, philosophy to food. The Smart Set strives to present big ideas on the small, the not-so small, and the everyday. >>

The Smart Set is published and supported by the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. Learn more about PHC >>

Subscribe

Get our latest stories in your inbox, weekly

follow us:

or try…

advice animals art book review books childhood comics cooking culture death family feminism film food friendship gender health history journalism language life literature love memory money movies music nature painting philadelphia philosophy photography poetry politics reading religion science sex technology television travel women writing
  • Conversations
  • Ideas
    Like a headache, with pictures.
  • Journeys
  • Archive