The spring is one of the best times to target bass across the country. Though there are certainly pockets of exciting fishing elsewhere on the calendar, the spring is when bass push shallow and become ...

Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

One of the season’s leading themes was “fashion as feeling”—a fitting sentiment not only captured in the movement of the clothes (the fringe! the feathers! the frothy lace!) as designers experimented ...