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Rosalía Doesn’t Want to Take It Easy
Sometimes it seems as if everyone wants to be a pop girlie. Last year, Taylor Swift counted herself among the “tortured poets,” but nowadays she is a self-described “showgirl,”...
John Early Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Ronny Chieng Enters the Caption Contest
The actor and comedian tackles The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. Source link
Florence Welch Learns How to Scream
The title track on “Everybody Scream,” the new album by Florence and the Machine, opens with a synth organ layered over an eerie choral harmony. In the video, directed...
Complete Checklist for Car Warranty Claims
Have you ever purchased a vehicle that started causing you trouble sooner than expected? It is frustrating when a car you have invested in does not perform as desired....
Do We Need Hobbies?
We’re all busy. But are we busy in the right ways? Source link
At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital
In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The venue was a disused Anglican church where...
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so father-haunted. “What the hell is wrong with you?...
Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart?
That being said, I want to be clear. The victims of this Administration are not the comedians. We are a visible manifestation of certain things, but the victims are...
James Van Der Zee’s Dreamlike Images of the Departed
You could tell that he was getting back to work when the drinking stopped and the parties stopped. Sitting in uneasy silence—he hated being alone, but, spiritually, he was...
Essay by Patti Smith: Art Rats in New York City
Finding my own words. Source link