It’s All In the Wrist (and the Blatant Lying) By Michelle Weber Highlight In these troubling economic times, you can’t amass a giant art collection without robbing a few hundred museums any more.
When Music Speaks to Our Experience By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Anton Webern’s Concerto, Opus 24 had the structure that was missing from one young musician’s life.
Los Angeles Plays Itself By David L. Ulin Feature In this land of constant reinvention, a longtime resident walks the streets to understand what the city was and what it’s becoming.
The New Old Hollywood By Soraya Roberts Feature The Hollywood establishment used to be dominated by old white men, but that’s changing fast.
The Problem with Nature Writing By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The sprawling Los Angeles Metropolitan Area is the best place in America to reassess the way we write and think about the natural world.
Stovetop Revenge By Michelle Weber Highlight Black women take power where they can find it, and sometimes that’s in a pot of hot, skin-searing grits.
‘We Are All Responsible’: How #MeToo Rejects the Bystander Effect By Soraya Roberts Feature The classic “Bystander Effect” blames a lack of intervention on diffusion of responsibility. That doesn’t fly anymore.
On Asylums By Lisa Chen Feature A problematic cat offered more insight into the author’s ailing father than you’d think.
Remembering Ken Nordine By Tom Maxwell Feature The ambitious radio personality created his own form of expression, called “word jazz,” to properly accomodate his musical voice and artistic ambitions.
How Do We Read in a Digital World? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Digitization has changed the way readers experience literature — and examine themselves.
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing By Longreads Feature The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
Teen Girls Finally Get to Touch Themselves By Soraya Roberts Feature Pop culture loves to show teen boys jerking off, but girls never seemed to get the same attention. They are getting their happy ending now.
Shelved: Sonny Rollins Live at Carnegie Hall By Tom Maxwell Feature The saxophone colossus recorded two concerts at the same venue fifty years apart. Only one recording emerged from the vault.
Writing for the Movies: A Letter from Hollywood, 1962 By Longreads Feature In this classic essay about a classic American art form, legendary screenwriter Daniel Fuchs reflects on his lifetime learning the trade.
Why Must We Tarnish the Glittering Legacy of Italo Disco with Petty Squabbles By Michelle Weber Highlight There’s no “I” in “Disco.” Oh wait, yes there is. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Remembering James Ingram By Tom Maxwell Commentary The R&B singer and songwriter made it look easy, even when it wasn’t.
The Paths of Rhythm By Longreads Feature A Tribe Called Quest’s pioneering music is one of many filaments that connects Americans of color with each other now and back through time.
Accidental Music History: How Jeff Gold Saved Rare Iggy & the Stooges Recordings from the Dump By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Sometimes this is how musical history gets saved.
Edward Gorey: A Highly Conjectural Man By Bridey Heing Feature When asked if there was “anything people don’t understand” about him, Gorey responded: “Yes. No. Yes. No.” A new biography by Mark Dery attempts to sort myth from reality.
Shelved: Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine By Tom Maxwell Feature How the songwriter’s abandoned third album became two albums.
Chimayó By Longreads Feature Esmé Weijun Wang discovers a new interpretation of faith while on two kindred pilgrimages: one to find an accurate medical diagnosis, one to a sacred site in New Mexico.
This Is the Excellent Foppery of the World By Michelle Weber Highlight Mercury’s in retrograde, so it’s a great day to read this post.
This Post Was Originally 200 Words Longer But They Weren’t Sparking Joy By Michelle Weber Highlight “Instead of homes, we live in commodities.”
When Black Male Singers Were Sex Symbols By Ericka Blount Danois Feature Teddy Pendergrass was the R&B singer women wanted and who men wanted to be. And the one whose life-sized cardboard cutout stood in one family’s living room.
Carvell Wallace on ‘Moonlight’ Writer Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Next Acts By Danielle Jackson Highlight Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Broadway debbut,, “Choir Boy,” is a tender coming of age story about a queer Black boy at a prestigious boarding school.
True Crime and the Trash Balance By Soraya Roberts Feature True crime has a reputation for being trashy, but a recent renaissance has it tipping into advocacy.
‘Rhyming Was No Longer a Symptom, But a Cure’: From Stroke Survivor to Rap Legend By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight For stroke survivor Sherman Hershfield, rapping and rhyming kept his seizures under control.
Fruitland By Steven Kurutz Feature Privately made records enjoy a cult following among collectors, but few are as legendary as Donnie and Joe Emerson’s 1979 LP Dreamin’ Wild.
Musicians Come Clean on How They Live, Create, and Thrive While Sober By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Chris Heath at GQ interviews nine sober musicians on thriving creatively.
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