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The 20 Most Influential Creators Right Now
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Dylan Mulvaney Addresses Right-Wing Backlash Over Bud Light Endorsement
Stronger Than Ever “Dehumanization has never fixed anything in history, ever,” said the popular content creator Earlier this month transgender actor and activist Dylan Mulvaney partnered with Bud Light to celebrate both March Madness and Day […]
Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good!
I’m told that we’re living in a sexless era—that Gen Z simply isn’t doing it and that everybody else is too busy or too addicted to their phones or just too freaked out to fuck. There are other […]
Bill Orcutt: Jump on It
Bill Orcutt is an unlikely elder statesman of traditional American guitar music. Though he looks the part, with his professorial eyeglasses and John Berryman beard, his confrontational work with ’90s noise rockers Harry Pussy offered little […]
James Ivy: Everything Perfect EP
James Ivy is trying to remember the world as it once was: listening to FM radio, rocking a pair of back-of-neck headphones, falling in love with someone in real life instead of online. The 23-year-old […]
Ron Morelli: Heart Stopper
Thirteen years ago, DJ and producer Ron Morelli began releasing records by friends and neighbors like Delroy Edwards and Traxx, quickly establishing a very New York take on Detroit techno and Chicago house. Their residue was both greasier […]
Bluesky Becomes the Hottest Club Online as Twitter Users Fight for Invites
Imagine a distant future in which humans compete for passenger seats on a spaceship headed away from this dying Earth to a more habitable planet. That’s more or less the current scene on Twitter — […]
Farewell Jerry Springer, the Patron Saint of American Dysfunction
R.I.P. to the great Jerry Springer, who died Thursday at 79. This man revolutionized daytime TV — he was the Martha Graham of afternoon talk-show slap-and-punch choreography. His eponymously titled show was a beautifully bizarre […]
‘It Is Easy for a Person to Disappear’: Accused Murderer Suggests Missing Wife Ran Away
Brian Walshe, who following his wife’s disappearance went on a cleaning-supplies shopping spree and reportedly Googled “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body,” has again pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ana Walshe. […]
WHO IS ALEXA DARK
The enigmatically named Alexa Dark is a Spanish-American singer-songwriter who grew up in Europe, the Old World spirit of which she has clearly absorbed. European influence notwithstanding, she admits she can’t cook — not essential […]
Gabe ‘Nandez No Longer Rides Alone
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