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Rachel Balik

Senior Writer

Rachel has been with findingDulcinea since February of 2007. Before joining the team, Rachel was a copywriter at a financial services marketing firm. She has also worked in arts administration at New York's Roundabout Theatre Company and as a production assistant on off-Broadway shows.  Rachel's eclectic post-college years also include a stint as a yoga studio assistant and a summer spent assistant-teaching philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy. She has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania with a minor in Theatre Arts. For more about Rachel read her blog, Wicked Witch Of The Web.

Favorite Web sites:
  Seeqpod 
  PopMatters
The New York Times

Most Recent Articles by Rachel Balik

  • Finding the Perfect Halloween Costume
    Halloween is the one day out of the year when you can be whoever, or whatever, you want. You’re faced with endless possibilities, endless choices and endless potential for fun. This week, Shop Around the Web offers help with your Halloween costume; learn how to make your own or buy the best ones available online.
  • Happy Birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
    “Nietzsche’s actual thought is a … system, at the beginning of which stands the death of God … the ensuing nihilism, and at its end the self-surmounting of nihilism in eternal recurrence,” Nietzsche scholar Karl Lowith once wrote, capturing the intensity, depth and wildly compelling contradictions inherent in the German philosopher’s oeuvre. To this day, Friedrich Nietzsche is considered one of the most influential Western thinkers.
  • Happy Birthday, Ray Charles, Legendary Musician
    Nicknamed “The Genius” for his ability to weave musical genres together and excel in all areas of performance, Ray Charles was a distinctly American legend. Although he grappled with blindness, drug addiction and physical ailments, Charles never lost his desire to perform and innovate, which won him a devoted fan base and critical acclaim throughout his career.
  • International Talk Like A Pirate Day
    Ahoy, mateys: it’s time to celebrate everyone’s favorite holiday! No, not Christmas; September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Yes, it’s the one day of the year when you can take pride in behaving like a swashbuckling buccaneer.
  • Happy Birthday, D.H. Lawrence, Author of 'Lady Chatterley’s Lover'
    At the end of his life, D.H. Lawrence wrote, “For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.” His work always strove to reconcile the needs of the body with an intellectual existence; however, in his life, his sickly body often held back the progress of his gifted mind.
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