As he prepared to close his first decade of making music, Anthony Naples reached an impasse. Having established his club bona fides with a growing catalog of tough, distorted house and techno, the New York producer […]
How Cocaine Turned Me Bisexual
Zachary Zane has never shied away from discussing his own sexual exploits in (extremely) graphic detail, but it’s not just for the shock value. The Men’s Health sex advice columnist is on a mission to de-stigmatize sex for everyone, regardless […]
‘It’s a Huge Relief’: Trans ‘Shitposters’ on Bluesky Feel Safer Away From Twitter
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remarked Tuesday on the social app Bluesky — a decentralized alternative to Twitter that sill has under 100,000 users — that she hadn’t tweeted in days. But she had posted to Bluesky […]
Musk Threatens to Give Away NPR’s Twitter Handle Unless It Tweets Again
Temper Tantrum The public broadcaster quit Twitter after their account was labeled “state-affiliated” Elon Musk suggested he would re-assign NPR’s Twitter account because the company had stopped tweeting, NPR claimed on Tuesday. In a series […]
‘Kids Were Marched Everywhere. This Was a Concentration Camp.’
S itting at his dining room table at his home in Snohomish County, Washington, Matthew Warbonnet, 77, pensively flips through a binder of black and white photos. His long, salt-and-pepper hair is pulled into a […]
How Alix Earle Became TikTok’s It Girl
As the blond, willowy daughter of a New Jersey construction magnate, Alix Earle, 22, doesn’t seem like an everywoman on the surface. Yet, since her TikTok debut in early 2020, viewers have flocked to the […]
Payroll Giovanni Still Serves Game
Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that highlights exceptional rising rappers. To read previous columns, click here. There’s a universe where Payroll Giovanni, YG, and Jeezy release a group album scored by the Grammy-winning […]
‘We Exist’: Wellesley Trans Students Say It’s Not Just a Women’s College
When Ninotska Love donned her tight red dress and Selena sunglasses to graduate from Wellesley College in May 2020, it was a monumental day. She had moved to the U.S. in 2009 to flee gender […]
Sluice: Radial Gate
Sometimes it seems like Justin Morris wishes he were an eagle. Planes and birds of prey soar above Radial Gate, the Durham, North Carolina folk musician’s second album as Sluice. From the ground, Morris sings of dirt […]
Paul Flores Sentenced to 25 Years to Life for Murder of Kristin Smart
Nearly 27 years since Cal Poly student Kristin Smart went missing after attending a party near campus, former classmate Paul Flores has been sentenced to 25 years to life without parole for her murder. The […]
Lil Yachty: Let’s Start Here.
And the big pivot is… a highly manicured and expensive blend of Tame Impala-style psych-rock, A24 synth-pop, loungey R&B, and Silk Sonic-esque funk, a sound so immediately appealing that it doesn’t feel experimental at all. In 2020, […]
Nothing Can Cure These People Who Want to Bang the Mucinex Monster
“Rule 34” is an internet axiom which states that if something exists, someone has made pornography out of it. A corollary to that theorem may also hold: If a brand has a mascot, people will […]