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Jul. 3rd, 2020 Paradise is a cliché term bandied about when the natural landscape in front of the viewer is beyond any other descriptor. The South Island of New Zealand is such place of crisp fresh air, majestic snow-capped alpine mountains, emerald forests, and crystal-clear fjord lakes where to describe it as paradise could be

Brooklyn drill generally, and Pop Smoke’s music in particular, follows a now-typical pattern for regional rap subgenres, growing and splintered off from their source material. See the way Los Angeles G-funk was repurposed by rappers in Texas, the way up-tempo bounces from the Bay Area were meshed with Detroit’s electronic music traditions when they reached

As she captured images of her fellow protesters, she felt a connection to them: She’d grown up in Harlem, where her parents ran a successful beauty-supply store. They’d come to New York from West Africa in 1992, and through their acumen and sheer tenacity, they found a way to send her to Horace Mann, the

“I’m having a ball,” Yahya Abdul-Mateen II says, not for the first time today. It’s early March, the handshake is still a standard greeting instead of a bygone custom, and the two of us are sitting in a classroom at the New York Academy of Art, studying a Still Life 101 setup: a pitcher, an

Right. After 9/11, he came out of retirement because people wanted to ask him, “What do you say to a child when there’s a disaster?” And Mister Rogers said, “Well, in a disaster my mother used to always say, ‘You can always look for the helpers.’” So my question, right now, is: Who are the

In his new song “Wash Us in the Blood,” Kanye West makes reference to a being I’m not sure we’ve ever properly met: “They wanna sign a fake Kanye / they tryna sign a CalmYe.” Calmness might not crack the top 100 reasons Kanye’s fans love and adore him. Yes, his hyperactivity has occasionally gotten

Kellyanne Conway is famous for a few reasons: She’s the first woman to head a successful presidential campaign. She aggressively and unrelentingly defends Donald Trump’s most racist and inane claims to reporters. And her husband, George Conway, very publicly hates the president whose White House Kellyanne works in. It turns out that her husband isn’t

Protests against police brutality continued across the country this weekend, including a march of around 500 people demanding the mayor’s resignation in St. Louis. Earlier in the week, Mayor Lyda Krewson read the names and addresses of individuals calling to defund the police, basically doxxing people who sent letters to the mayor’s office. In response,

As you’ve gotten older, has Judaism remained an important part of your lives, as it seems like your experience was largely cultural? Alana: When it comes to Judaism, the thing that really kept us together was the family aspect. It was the High Holidays, coming together as a family for an event. A meal. Este

With the release of Rough and Rowdy Ways last week, Dylan’s first album of original songs in eight years, I found myself wanting to track down and talk to the person who had both written the greatest Dylan parody song of all time and inadvertently changed my relationship with his entire catalogue. That would be

Hip Hop Harry aired on Discovery and TLC from 2006 to 2008. Imagine Barney and Friends, but if you replaced all of the songs about learning and processing your emotions with … rapped versions of songs about processing your emotions. Oh, and if Barney wore a tilted wide brim hat and an enormous chain. (Coincidentally,

Since police officers murdered Eric Garner in New York in 2014, his last words, “I can’t breathe,” have become a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement. High-profile figures like LeBron James have worn the words on T-shirts, and protesters have chanted them at anti-police-brutality demonstrations. “I can’t breathe” aren’t just Eric Garner’s last

Do you think it’s important that Biden choose a Black running mate? [laughs] The choice of VP has been an issue of intrigue. The beautiful thing about the options on the table is that all of them are more qualified than the current occupant of the White House. Whatever the choice is, I think we

“When I was in college, I was so paranoid going to a track meet. I would look up in the stands and assume that someone knew my sexuality,” he says. “At one point, I was so afraid to utter the words ‘gay’ or say ‘I’m gay.’ ” He credits his best friend with helping him

Madeline Hotel & Residences, Auberge Resorts Collection If a Rocky Mountain getaway sounds tempting, Hotel Jerome, Auberge Resorts Collection in Aspen and Madeline Hotel & Residences, Auberge Resorts Collection in Telluride are now accepting reservations for overnight stays. A slew of new outdoor adventures (there’s a three-day climbing immersion camp in Telluride), culinary experiences (Aspen gets a Noma pop-up),

As of Wednesday morning, things don’t look good for older, more centrist Democrats in New York state. In a showdown that’s reminiscent of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s huge 2018 upset, former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman seems poised to unseat Eliot Engel, a 16-term white incumbent representing the majority-minority 16th District, right next to AOC’s. Bowman had