Hans Niemann, the American 20-year-old chess grandmaster at the center of a scandal involving Magnus Carlsen, the game’s reigning superstar and former world champion, will not have the chance to seek damages over allegations of […]
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Simone Biles Is Ready to Return to Competitive Gymnastics After Olympics Exit
Simone Biles is set to return to competitive gymnastics for the first time in nearly two years after she withdrew from some events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. USA Gymnastics announced that Biles would […]
Daniel Penny Pleads Not Guilty to Manslaughter in Death of Jordan Neely
Daniel Penny, the man accused of choking Jordan Neely to death on the New York City subway, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, The New York Times reports. Penny, a former Marine, […]
The Red-Pilling of Rob Schneider: A Complete Timeline
Back in the halcyon days of the early 2010s, Rob Schneider was perhaps best known for being a Saturday Night Live alum, one of Adam Sandler’s BFFs, and the star of the (underrated) The Hot […]
Arthur Russell: Picture of Bunny Rabbit
Like his friend and colleague Julius Eastman, Arthur Russell was an artist with no spiritual homeland. He was a composer who made pop music, an introvert who haunted discos, an Iowa native who was neighbors […]
Young Thug: Business Is Business
A third of the way through Business Is Business, the record Young Thug released with little warning during his 14th month behind bars as he awaits trial following a 56-count RICO indictment in his native […]
Mike Dimes: Texas Boy
On paper, Texas rapper Mike Dimes has the resume of a rising star your teenage cousin won’t stop raving about. A year ago, the former basketball player was balancing a rap career with college, pursuing […]
Amnesia Scanner / Freeka Tet: STROBE.RIP
Nina Sun Eidshem begins her 2019 book The Race of Sound with a concept she calls “the acousmatic question.” When you hear a voice and you’re not sure of its source, your nervous system lights […]
The Battle for the Future of Psychedelics
“Welcome to the psychedelic twenties.” This is how Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), greeted a packed crowd on the opening morning of Psychedelic Science 2023 in Denver […]
Grady Kurpasi Went to Ukraine to Fight. Then He Disappeared
G rady Kurpasi and Andy Hill dove to the ground as the forest around them exploded. There was a rapid pop, pop, pop as rifle fire pounded the dirt and trees and Russian infantry edged […]
New Justice Dept. Report Details ‘Serious Failures’ That Led to Jeffrey Epstein’s Suicide
An extensive and detailed 128-page report from the U.S. Department of Justice details “numerous and serious failures” that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to die by suicide while in the care of New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center […]
At Oblivion Access, Heaviness Comes in Many Forms
You have to be a total maniac to go to a festival focused on uncommercial, loud, raucous, confusing music in the summer in Austin, Tx. Hopefully, like me, you are a total maniac. Oblivion Access, […]