The Daily Populous

* * * As a twenty-something Bostonian in 1992, John Sylvan didn’t have a particular passion for coffee.

As he explains the appeal now, “It's like a cigarette for coffee, a single-serve delivery mechanism for an addictive substance.”

And like printer cartridges or razor blades, the Keurig business model was predicated on another type of dependence. »

The Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has called for a black feminist festival in the French capital to be banned, saying it was “prohibited to white people”.

Four-fifths of the festival area will be set aside as a “non-mixed” space for black women, according to its website.

“I am asking for this festival to be banned,” the mayor said, adding she also reserved the right “to prosecute the organisers for discrimination”. »

The New York Assembly's Health Committee passed an initiative Tuesday that would add dysmenorrhea to the list of conditions necessary to qualify for medical marijuana use.

If it becomes law, everyday women suffering from intolerable period pain could have legal access to pot with a medical marijuana card.

“People are starting to understand that medical marijuana is a useful tool to relieve suffering and women’s suffering from severe menstrual cramps.”. »

She has life-threatening allergies to eggs, dairy and nuts and fears the impostors are hurting her chances of safely dining out.

"Faux food allergies are all the rage," griped California chef David Mau in a recent column.

As for Elliott, she wants the impostors to know the price she pays for being afraid to dine in restaurants. »