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“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

Steven, one interesting thing that happens in the movie is the fact that your activism with the March For Our Lives is used against you in the campaign. The idea of actually physically going out to change something is framed as a negative. Since the film, protests have affected the nation dramatically. Were you involved

From Drake’s Laugh Now Cry Later music video, 2020.Courtesy of UMG / Republic / OVO The Nike Company Store Drake takes his companion on a shopping spree at a closed-down Nike Company Store—the mythical on-campus outpost available only to Nike employees, guests, and visitors where everything’s on significant discount. From personal experience: it might look

On Thursday, Belarusian authorities began releasing prisoners from the jails. These were people who had been arrested during the days of protest following Sunday’s presidential election, which European officials said “was neither free nor fair” and in which Aleksander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus for 26 years, claimed to win over 80 precent of the

This is Wait, What?, a column that explains the seemingly incomprehensible. One week ago today, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion blessed our weary nation with their video for “WAP,” a gleefully filthy sonic and visual ode to their genitalia. It features an infectious hook lifted from Frank Ski’s 1993 Baltimore club track “Whores in

In the second season, he does get some more agency and independence, but his development is still intrinsically tied to Klaus. He has the potential to be the most powerful member of the family, but that can never be fully realized because he’s essentially trapped. I could sit here and talk about a million different