The Stoop and the Street
...for this conversation,” Lacy said. She paused. “I think that’d be Washington.” *** An hour and a half after we began talking on the stoop, the sound of music seeping...
The voice is Ricky’s voice
...to try on some black and pink lingerie, the photog briefed me. it’s for richardson, i want you to be like music, intelligible and inexplicable at the same time. totally...
God’s Dice
...of violence? He tried out his theory on hundreds of the most elusive variables: the type of music listened to, favorite sexual fetish, being an early morning or night person....
Google's Macchia
...in music it is not the attached words, the libretto, but the character of the melody that produces emotion in the listener...” Imbriani’s was an argument for the inner life...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
...days to spare, we could dot the planet with a series of mile-long conga lines. I'd be the first to say, Let's fill every available music studio with every aging...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.29.12
...homemade beauty remedy piece, from makeup artist and friend of The Beheld Emily Kate Warren: Use beets as a lip stain. It works! I first tried it after reading about...
Media and Consumer Desire
...attention on the objects which formed part of its decor. The lingering closeups, the use of music to emphasize mood, the employment of objects and sets as significant aspects of...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
...days to spare, we could dot the planet with a series of mile-long conga lines. I'd be the first to say, Let's fill every available music studio with every aging...
Placebos and Noisy Bodies
...to self-medicating my aches and pains—the sprains, depressions, anxieties, flus—with mix-and-matched doses of alcohol, friendship, romance, sex, food, coffee, writing, sleep, the Internet, exercise, pop music, critical theory, literature, art,...
In Motion
An interview with director, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about her film What is Democracy?
Kjerstin Gruys, Ph.D. sociology student, Bay Area
...how our culture kind of shaped my experience. Having an eating disorder, you’re always aware of your own body image, but it’s not until you’re recovering that you’re really forced...
Cooperative Kitchens of Yesteryear
...rooms on the first floor into a music room, another into a library. The largest room they made into a dining room that could accommodate 60 people. “It is the...
Sunday Reading
...Flesh The Slow Death of Turkish Higher Education Gecekondu chic? Informal settlements and urban poverty as cultural commodity What Was Left Behind: Music of the Ottoman Empire Repetition and Death...
Fruits and Vegetables
...that it is hard to imagine a world worth living in without them. Humor, music, poetry, recycling, and failed recreational drug use all owe quite a good deal to the...
Ramadan Diaries: Looking Backward, Looking Inward
...who was once involved in arranging a piece of mine to music. In the sturdy pews my body fell into a state of such severe pain that I doubled over....
If You Are Lucky Enough To Be In LA...
...and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. But more recently, defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits...