Knocked Out Loaded
...or some other untrue nonsense. It didn’t look good. Rape culture is complicated. Zelda and Frank’s situation became more preposterous, seemingly daily. Until one day, just like that, the case...
Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.
Open Wide
...them to music and turned them into a pair of successful albums in the 1990s. When entrepreneur Michael Birch was putting together social network Bebo.com in 2006, he reached out...
Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis
We Are Your Friends is not our youth, but it might as well be
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Solid Personal Achievements
...that you’re married. As an Igbo girl, you know our culture (Cuts in again) What does our culture do? Let me tell you about our culture. This thing that you...
Beautiful Weapons
...completely unredeemable. The good games people have made will be around still. We don’t need any of the bullshit misogynist racist culture. Games journalism is toxic, games writing is toxic,...
The Resentment Machine
...but they are equally unable to cast off the social-climbing aspirations that this lifestyle represents. Their parentage and their culture teach them to at once hunger for the material goods...
Cat Power
..."Cuties in Japan" remains the authoritative text on this. She writes, Cute culture started as youth culture amongst teenagers, especially young women. Cute culture was not founded by business. But...
Consent Mixtape
...Some of the songs in this mixtape are about yielding to music, some of them are about yielding to desire, and some of them are about the consent inherent in...
The Lossless Self
...of understanding fidelity. In genres such as punk, lo-fi, and noise music, unwanted sounds conventionally heard as impediments to fidelity are heard as signs of enhanced authenticity. Those who appreciate...
Together We Are None
...electro-fied disco tunes of traditional folkish songs like “Rasputin” or “Rivers of Babylon,” and selling it to a primarily white, German audience. It reminds me of music I heard from...
Paranoia at the Disco
...songs and as white singers invaded the playlists of black stations. If you asked the grumblers to come up with a conspiracy theory to explain the music’s rise, they might...
Finer Things
...pop music is always ultimately committed to. It's a shame Bateman didn't find the time in his general laying-waste to the shibboleths of 1980s culture to take down the single-most...
How the Bronx was Branded
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
it's not surprising that we get bitter, that we cling to gun control
...a kind of utopianism, the idea that if we got rid of the objects themselves, the desire for them, the need for them, and the culture that is built around...
The Dandelion and the Lucky Peach
...The column starts off with Bourdain recounting the basics of Chang’s biography: “After becoming disenchanted with work in the financial-services sector, Chang traveled to Japan to teach English and study...