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That’s not to say that she hasn’t been able to do a lot over the last six months; the raising of $1 million is a testament to that, after all. Now she and her staff find themselves in the enviable—though still challenging—position of juggling a lot. They’re hiring personnel, making plans for their new building,

If this were a one- or two-game boycott by the players and then they returned to action, how do you think this would be remembered? I think it would be remembered as symbolic, and from a collective bargaining position down the road, it would be a tell for the owners to realize that these guys

It’s why I do Eckhaus [Latta]: It’s honest, I know the designers, it’s super familial. But I had kind of capped it at that. I was fearful because this is something that I was less experienced in and so, of course, there was a little impostor syndrome. But I also felt that I’m less experienced

After the Los Angeles Clippers waxed the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of their first-round series, Clippers head coach Doc Rivers had very little to say about basketball. Earlier that day it was revealed that Jacob Blake, a Black man shot multiple times on Sunday by police in Wisconsin while his three children watched, will

Has Jerry Falwell been in hot water about anything else recently? Amazingly, before l’affaire Granda resurfaced, Falwell Jr. was already on administrative leave from Liberty university, following backlash from an Instagram photo he had posted. In the now-deleted image, his fly was undone, he was holding a beverage, and he had his hands around a

“It’s a mass grave, a dollar-fifty resting place / on the north face, it’s a rope I’ve gotta climb / I’m a stone’s throw from everyone I love and know / and I can’t show up looking like I do.” These are the lyrics that follow the clarion call of those C chords, and they

As we talked, I kept getting distracted by the video chat and my ability to move around in virtual space, the possibility that the two of us could make actual eye contact. Empowered, I tried out on him an idea I had about what unified his vast and myriad pursuits over the years. What holds

Aug. 24th, 2020 “The very air here is miraculous, and outlines the reality of change with the moment…. a dream hangs over the whole region….” John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, Los Cabos, Mexico In 1940, author John Steinbeck sailed from Monterey, California, to explore the narrow gulf  between Baja California and

Yesterday would have been Kobe Bryant’s 42nd birthday, and today is August 24th, the date that combines his two iconic jersey numbers. Bryant is being honored in several ways, from Nike’s release of Kobe-related items all week to Los Angeles and Orange Counties officially naming this “Kobe Bryant Day.” Over the past 20 years, Bryant

Last year, I spent five months in New York working on a TV show. I was lonely, and my preferred method for dealing with that loneliness was shopping online for shit that I didn’t need. One night, I found myself clicking around on eBay when a heavily used iPod caught my eye. The sight instantly

Over the next seven years, as Kendi dedicated himself to spreading the gospel of antiracism, he brought to his work such an all-consuming fervor that he often found peace with his loved ones to be in short supply. By late 2017, bouts of fatigue began to lay him flat; even after seeing blood clots in

We’ll likely never know who put the noose there, why that person felt compelled to tie it, how they learned to do such a thing in the first place. That’s just as well, I suppose, because the incident itself demonstrates something far more critical: that the awful history of that object looms so large in

My hate for the nebulous, jittery, and useless term “people of color” can at least partially be blamed on celery sticks, cherry tomatoes, and ranch dressing. It was 2017 (I think). I was on a panel about anti-Blackness, but I don’t remember exactly where. (Pittsburgh, maybe?) I do remember that the organizers said that there’d

Has becoming a father changed your relationship with your parents? “No, not at all, man. It’s actually cool, because now we have things to relate on, right? Just raising a daughter. I’m always talking to my parents. They try to remind me of how I was when I was a kid.” And how was that

While the rest of the music industry cancelled tours and pushed back record releases in response to COVID-19, Travis Scott pulled off the most ambitious concert of his career: as a floating plantoid head rapping to 27.7 million people in Fortnite. Like every one of the star’s concerts, it was electric and unforgettable. And like

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Rayburn is a real survivalist, with a well-earned reputation for hunting and trapping. Do you have any of those skills yourself? NCW: I have hunted, myself. I’ve always liked the outdoors. But Rayburn has a very specific way of surviving. He used a bottle of Jack Daniels to get through the day. I’ve never done