Tag: millennials

Every era bears its aesthetic burden. This is ours.

The manmade dream of owning a home wasn’t built on a solid foundation.

In the Bay Area, there are two migrations: young people in tech moving in, ready to disrupt, and young people with other dreams — the artists, teachers, blacksmiths, therapists, mechanics, musicians — who leave because there’s no longer a place for them.

Reniqua Allen — the author of It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America — on Black millennials, millennial burnout, and hope in a time of uncertainty.

Going to a hotel to have a place to sleep is for suckers: it’s influencing or bust.

A new essay and podcast series examines how attitudes toward age and aging have changed.

A new study shows that knowledge about the Holocaust is dangerously at an all-time low.

A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.

Searching for a teen girl who was once internet famous for her coding skills, a former fan uncovers a story of harassment.

A new audience finds comfort and meme-ready material in an old pseudoscience.

A millionaire falsely argues that millennials aren’t buying homes because they’re financially irresponsible.

The gospel of yoga, mindfulness, and organic-everything didn’t come out of nowhere. In a world in which once-cherished social safety nets rapidly disappear, taking care of oneself has become an increasingly privatized—and increasingly expensive—endeavor. At The Baffler, Laurie Penny unpacks the ascendant ideology of self-care, and explains why it’s so hard to find an alternative […]

In its growth, Governors Ball is benefitting from and contributing to the festival explosion of the past decade, a trend that a new Eventbrite study (on the “Top 2014 Music Festival Trends and Insights”) claims has resulted in one in every five millennials attending at least one festival per year. Though big, multi-day productions have thrived longer […]