The new election denialists can’t cope with Trump 2.0 — Washington Post
March 14, 2025
Nov. 5 has come and gone, but some Kamala Harris supporters are refusing to believe the results. First, the voters noticed that women around the country seemed to have woken up at 4 a.m. with a strange feeling. A vibe shift, if you will. When they grabbed their phones, they… Read More
Your hair looks gorgeous. It cost … what?! — Washington Post
March 13, 2025
Salons are implementing hourly pricing, billing more for basic services and handing hairdryers to customers, all to future-proof their businesses and prevent stylist burnout. Some customers say it’s out of control. Over the pandemic, I did what many anxious and bored women did: I messed with my hair. By which… Read More
Chappell Roan Booked a Tour. Then She Blew Up. — New York Times
March 13, 2025
The rising pop star now has five songs on the Hot 100. The venues her team picked out months ago are struggling to fit her ballooning audience. In September 2023, Chappell Roan opened the tour for her debut album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” in Roseville, Calif., at… Read More
Taylor Swift’s latest is ‘a downer’ for some. Enter the DIY remix. — Washington Post
March 13, 2025
The sad songs on “The Tortured Poets Department” are being remade into emo, EDM, hip-hop and hard rock thanks to creative fans Nick Reiner had a problem. Reiner, a DJ and producer who goes by the moniker Major Vibes, was planning another Taylor Swift-themed party for the club Tellus 360… Read More
Missing Joe Wood — Alta magazine
March 13, 2025
Over two decades ago, one of the most promising writers of his generation went for a walk on Mount Rainier and was never seen again. The last time anyone saw New York writer Joe Wood Jr. was on July 8, 1999. Wood was one of 6,000 writers and editors who… Read More
Last Rites for the Village Voice, a Bohemian Who Stayed On Too Long
May 18, 2020
The death of the storied alternative weekly isn’t just the end of a newspaper. It’s the end of New York as the lodestar for new and uncomfortable ideas. The death last week of The Village Voice, the storied alt-weekly, was in some ways to be expected. When its latest owner,… Read More
Russell Wilson Is Worth Every Penny
February 22, 2020
RUSSELL WILSON IS THROWING FOOTBALLS TO ME. Well, not to me, exactly. I am standing just behind Mark Baysinger, Wilson’s barber, who is the one catching the balls Wilson is throwing for a photo shoot, so it’s an optical illusion—albeit a thrilling one—that I’m the recipient of a football thrown… Read More
How Gavin McInnes Went from Vice to the Far Right
March 14, 2019
The original Proud Boy built a media empire on racism, homophobia, and sexism. The world changed and he didn’t—and no one’s laughing now I enjoy talking to Gavin McInnes even all these years later—after he called single motherhood “child abuse” and said feminism makes women ugly; after insisting trans people… Read More
We Came Here to Get Away From You: Gentrification in the Gayborhood
March 28, 2018
It was 3 in the morning last March when Adé Cônnére was attacked. Cônnére had been performing at the gay bar Pony on Capitol Hill and was wearing a shiny black coat over a dress. Cônnére, 36, is tall and lean and exudes a certain elegance, even without makeup or… Read More
How the Seahawks Became the Social Justice Warriors of the NFL
March 28, 2018
They were on the plane when they heard what Trump said. On a late Friday night in September, the Seattle Seahawks were en route to Nashville, where they would face the Tennessee Titans, when the news started blowing up with President Donald Trump’s comments about NFL players who had been… Read More