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This article originally ran in early March, when First Cow first debuted in limited release, shortly before movie theaters across the country shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. We are re-running it for the film’s VOD release on July 10th.  In First Cow, director Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, a reserved loner cook named Cookie

“[Jack] was real innocent, real quiet,” Mizrahi said of that 1992 meeting. “But also wanted to learn the culture and anything that came his way.” In short order, Jack was attending balls, his first coming two weeks later when Mizrahi debuted the House of Mizrahi. Jack quickly went from being the house’s photographer—using the skills

The lyrics: “You only want me for my body.” Imagine saying that to somebody! I would literally never say that to anybody. That’s what is so beautiful about it. “How Simple” by Hop Along This song was on our playlist on tour, so I could sing every word of it. This whole record is amazing.

His aspirations—whether they be in music, TV, politics—are all integrated into who he already is. There is no big plan. He sits on the board of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art and drops in on classes at Morehouse not out of ambition but because, to him, it’s the right thing to do. His guiding passions

“I was, like, not totally sure it was done,” Brady says, “and then it was out, and I was like, ‘It’s done, I guess.’ ” Les laughs. “When it’s out, it’s definitely done,” she says. In person, they’re visually similar—pale skin, lots of bitchin’ blond hair—but Les (on a couch, in a zipped-up black hoodie)

Visit Mendocino Fine food, fine wine, and an even finer coastline; Mendocino County, located about halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Oregon border, remains one of our favorite destinations in recent memory. With its abundant natural beauty, incredible shoreline drives, and towering redwoods, it’s less touristy than other scenic parts of California

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,