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The Art of the Photo Dump

Lindsey Staub — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000

Culture is a pendulum swinging back and forth between tail ends of a spectrum. If the previous decade saw conservative politics, liberalism is on the forefront; if the starlets of yesteryear were curvy, today’s will be skinny; if your closet is stocked with skinny jeans, be prepared for the takeover of the straight leg. Culture […]

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Asking What’s Real and What’s Not

Marek Makowski — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:48:24 +0000

When I discovered her work, I was searching for a different Madeleine Gross. The days of lockdown wearied me; I lay in bed, at night or during the afternoon or morning (time was unbroken and the same), swiping to find how others had changed. I sought one of my many now-anonymous former coworkers from a […]

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An Unlikely Community

Bethany Nuckolls — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:30:00 +0000

Anything goes in Times Square. Drummers flay empty buckets and paint cans, smokers pass marijuana joints to random passersby, a shrieking frenzy of religious zealots lie on the pavement dressed in literal sackcloth and ashes . . . and in the midst of this, an assortment of stuffed animal toys convulse in a chorus of […]

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On a Screen, Darkly

Andrea Bianchi — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:30:33 +0000

In the first surreal stretch of the pandemic, when the whole world paused like one of the static squares of Instagram, I could see the man I loved only through the internet, where his face grinned up brightly beside the smug smile of his ex. She had left him in those last weeks of normalcy, when risking the unfamiliar to venture from the safe shelter of a relationship, of home, had still seemed an inconsequential decision. As his decision must have also seemed, more […]

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Reviving the Dinner Party

Laura Leavitt — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:17:12 +0000

There is a lot more that goes into a dinner invitation in my home than comes out in a casual, “you should come over for dinner!” Many see dinner at a friend’s house as no big deal, but the political history behind historical and even modern dinner parties cuts to the core of what it […]

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The Danger in Devotion

Kesia Alexandra — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:30:53 +0000

A few months back, a story broke about R&B singer R. Kelly’s alleged cult. There was, of course, an immediate divide between those who supported the singer and those who believed his career should have ended decades ago due to similar accusations. The situation reminded many of Taz’s Angels, an alleged escort service/prostitution group out […]

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Sacred Monsters

Ernesto Oyarbide — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:30:47 +0000

June can be the cruelest month in London . . . if you originally come from Spain. At this point in the year, most cities in the Iberian Peninsula showcase a splendid sun: a warning of the blazing summer that is to come. But this was not the case in the gayish Soho district. It was a […]

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