Ziwe Fumudoh is not performing at BKLYN Clay, but glimpses of the eponymous character she took from buzzy Instagram Lives to a late-night premium cable show emerge as soon as she arrives. She’s direct, clear […]
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‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’ Is the Best Superhero Game in a Decade
“Anyone can be Spider-Man.” Related That sentiment, often attributed to creator Stan Lee in some form, has always been the core of what makes the character — perhaps the world’s most famous superhero — so […]
Israeli Government Blasts Gigi Hadid’s Extremely Mild Pro-Palestine Post
One week ago, Gigi Hadid condemned the “terrorizing of innocent people” in light of the Israel–Hamas war, a comment sparked by the Hamas attack in Israel that killed more than 1,200 Israelis. In the days […]
Man Charged With Hate Crime in Stabbing Death of Six-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy
A 71-year-old man is facing first-degree murder, hate crime, and battery charges for allegedly killing a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, and seriously wounding his mother, Hanaan Shahin, in Plainfield Township, Illinois, over the weekend. […]
Troye Sivan: Something to Give Each Other
On his 2015 debut, Blue Neighbourhood, Troye Sivan pitched himself as a dreamy outsider torn from the pages of a YA novel, taking in the world with a wide-eyed gaze that saw far beyond small-town […]
Helena Deland: Goodnight Summerland
Helena Deland’s stirring new record Goodnight Summerland opens wordlessly, with a measured, melancholy piano sketch played by Lysandre Ménard. On the next song, Deland admits: “Saying something isn’t easy.” The introduction is a small moment […]
Call Super: Eulo Cramps
Something secret is happening in JR Seaton’s work as Call Super. Over the last decade, they have developed a private language for their largely instrumental electronic music, which skirts the edges of the dancefloor like […]
Slauson Malone 1: Excelsior
Excelsior is Jasper Marsalis’ first album under the moniker Slauson Malone 1, but it’s his second solo album since leaving the Brooklyn-based collective Standing on the Corner. Where that group fashioned their tastes in jazz, […]
The Waitresses: Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
Chris Butler hadn’t actually formed the Waitresses when Village Voice columnist Robert Christgau came to watch them play a showcase of local bands in Akron, Ohio. It was 1978, and Butler had been mailing Christgau […]
Hiroshi Yoshimura: Surround
Hiroshi Yoshimura was sitting with his eyes closed. Beneath him, a mat. Beside him, several stones. In his hands he held a soprano saxophone. It was September 1977, and he and the musician Akio Suzuki […]
Bill Cosby Faces New Lawsuit from Woman Claiming Actor Raped Her in His Dressing Room in 1992
Bill Cosby is being sued by a new Jane Doe accuser who claims the disgraced 86-year-old actor drugged and raped her in his dressing room in 1992 while an NBC employee stood outside the door, […]
Tex Crick: Found In Translation
Ever wanted to skip down the street even when you’re kind of bummed out, or felt the need to put on a happy face when you’d actually prefer to hide from the world under the […]