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The Americans
You can’t enter a New York City museum without engaging with the concept of “American art” this summer.
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Not This Fucking Shit Again
My friends and I were enjoying a stellar first-day-of-summer night outside of a dive bar in lower Manhattan when we learned the United States is headed…
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Materialists Is Authentic And Boring
Celine Song took on a difficult task in her effort to make a rom-com about pragmatic 30-somethings looking for love.
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Hari Hari
How far would you go to escape your deepest well of pain?
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Self Sells
I can’t remember the first time I published something incredibly personal on the internet, but I can tell you about the time that doing so upended my…
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I Hate My Own Work
Three days ago I wrote a piece about Turnstile, a band that I don’t like.
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Heroes And Villains
In my late teenage years, I had a digital bootleg version of “SMiLE” that has now been lost to the graveyard of my old laptops.
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Road To Nowhere
A few years ago, David Byrne — a New York City mascot who once had a band — took a planned break during his Broadway run of “American Utopia” to ask…
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Past The Gates
I’ve never needed Turnstile.
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Lust For Life
On a rooftop in Brooklyn recently, Christopher Owens stood on stage with his guitar, a bouquet of flowers, and songs about sadness, solitude, and…
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Pod On My Blog
Over the weekend, I was scheduled to be a “guest host” on Staffcast, a podcast hosted by my friend, Richard Staff. Five years into our friendship, I…
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Knicks Take
“There it is again, that funny feeling."
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