With fewer than 700 undergraduates, New College of Florida’s student body is small enough that most of it fits on one reply-all email thread. On Jan. 6, the day news broke that Gov. Ron DeSantis […]
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Mandy, Indiana: i’ve seen a way
Mandy, Indiana don’t make sense. Three Mancunians and a Parisian came together under a name inspired by Gary, Indiana—a Rust Belt symbol of post-industrial American decline—to make a sound that thrashes like an angry Hydra. […]
Lewis Capaldi: Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent
In one scene in the recent documentary Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now (no apologies to Charli XCX!), the Scottish singer’s uniquely graceless manager shares his fears over the slow gestation of his act’s second album, and […]
Isolée: Resort Island
Triangle of Sadness, The White Lotus, The Resort: The luxury holiday has taken a cultural battering over the past few years as creators have explored the tensions between escapism and exploitation, opulence and poverty, that are inherent […]
An Evening at Macri Park
For as long as gay bars have existed in New York, they have lived under threat of extinction. The police brutality of the Stonewall era led to the religious right moralizing of the Reagan ascent, […]
LA Pride Pulls Out of Dodgers’ Pride Night After Team Rescinded Charity Drag Group Invite
LA Pride will not be participating in this year’s Los Angeles Dodgers Pride Night following the baseball team’s decision to disinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a nonprofit charity made up of drag nuns, from […]
Music Groups Call Supreme Court Ruling in Warhol Case a ‘Massive Victory’ For The Business
In a case with potential implications on a wide range of creative industries, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, May 18, that Andy Warhol infringed on a photographer’s copyrights for his portraits of Prince. The […]
From Playwright to Pandemic Queen: How D’Arcy Drollinger Became the First Drag Laureate
D’Arcy Drollinger didn’t always plan on being a drag queen. San Francisco’s new drag laureate lived in New York for years trying to make it as a playwright. After assisting in Broadway numbers and later […]
DeSantis Officially Enters the ‘Find Out’ Phase of His War With Disney
If there’s one rule that all Floridians live by, one credo that everyone in the Sunshine State must follow, it is this: Don’t fuck with the Mouse. (Also, something about alligators. But mostly, don’t fuck […]
Dive Into A Rhythmic Wonderland With Luna O’Cero’s Come n’ Try Latin
Luna O’Cero, originating from the Dominican Republic, has once more captivated his dedicated global fanbase with the unveiling of his newest record, Come n’Try Latin. This gifted artist is revolutionizing the Latin music landscape through […]
Kesha: Gag Order
Kesha was embattled from the beginning. On her 2009 debut, she played a hard-partying dirtbag and became a glittery avatar of harmless depravity; critics, missing or ignoring her quasi-feminist lampoon of male behavior, wrote her off as […]
Sqürl: Silver Haze
Music suffuses the films of Jim Jarmusch, sometimes not so much complementing as completing them. He has prominently cast Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, RZA, GZA, Meg White, John Lurie, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Briefly, he played no wave at peak CBGB. And he’s always […]