‘Beyoncé Said: You’re So Silly, I Love You!’ Tierra Whack, America’s Most Creative RapperShe’s a muse to megastars, a champion of Lego and raps about her imaginary friend – but behind the whimsy is a street-hardened MC confronting grief and depression.
View OriginalTen of the best CD players as the compact disc makes a comebackVinyl owns crackle and tape has hiss, but aside from these analogue anomalies, the main attraction of the two formats is pure nostalgia.
View OriginalIs This the End of Coachella?Plagued by low ticket sales and hellish logistics, the once-dominant California festival is starting to lose its luster.
View OriginalLove, Marriage, And The Music Business: The Sonic Alchemy of Jade Novah and Devin JohnsonThe creative couple discusses the inspiration behind their work, the importance of ownership, and why they traded fast fame for musical integrity.
View OriginalThe Number Ones: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Can’t Hold Us” (Feat. Ray Dalton)In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.
View OriginalScience FictionA decade after he arrived in New York and reshaped jazz to come, Ornette Coleman purchased a co-op. He wasn’t searching for valuable real estate when he bought two stories of a former factory on Prince Street, in the bloodless heart of the then-barren post-industrial neighborhood known as SoHo.
View OriginalThe Defiant Charm of Anthony EdwardsAnthony Edwards is, in more ways than one, unconcerned with the gravity of things.
View OriginalHow my dream design job turned into a nightmareThere I was, sitting in the dark, behind the messy desk in my unfinished home office, head in my hands. The only light in the room was coming from the screen in front of me, I was in another late afternoon meeting, hiding behind my avatar.
View OriginalDakota Johnson Can’t Fake ItDakota Johnson isn’t very online, but she’s sometimes tempted. “I occasionally think of something or say something that I feel would be really great on Twitter,” she says, grinning. She’s probably right.
View OriginalScenes from My Open-ish MarriageThere’s a scene in Molly Roden Winter’s debut, “More: A Memoir of Open Marriage,” that should come with a warning. Winter is at her home in Brooklyn. She has just had sex with her boyfriend while her two children sleep upstairs.
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View OriginalI’m an expert in the end of the world. The Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer made me cry in terror.As it heads into the Oscars, what Oppenheimer gets right — and wrong — about the threat of nuclear weapons. My wife and I went to see Oppenheimer on opening weekend in July, and I wore my best Los Alamos-themed costume.
View OriginalThe Royals Are So Bad at ThisTwo things can be true at the same time: Something weird seems to be going on with Catherine, Princess of Wales, and the internet has entirely broken our collective ability to see perfectly plausible explanations as likely scenarios.
View Original“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood CrisisIndustry pros sweat the possibility that many digital files will eventually become unusable — an archival tragedy reminiscent of the celluloid era.
View OriginalOptimising your design system with Figma’s variablesHello, codesigners. I‘m happy to share how I utilised Figma’s variables to create tokens and variables for our design system.