People & culture
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Street Stories with Gerald Kelly: The Unfiltered Voice of the City
Street Stories with Gerald Kelly: The Unfiltered Voice of the City In the heart of the concrete jungle, where every corner has a story and every shadow hides a secret, one voice rises above the noise. Gerald Kelly, in collaboration with Relentless Aaron, brings you ‘Street Stories’—a raw, visceral journey into the reality of urban…
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CoCo Kity: The New Princess of Pop: Soul
CoCo Kity: The New Princess of Pop & Soul The music industry is constantly looking for the ‘next big thing’, but CoCo Kity is already here, and she’s not just a trend—she’s a force. Her unique blend of infectious pop melodies and deep, soulful R&B undertones has created a sound that is both commercially viable…
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The Neverending Cycle of Crime & Punishment
These folks use to be our neighbors. Now they fill our phone, tablet and computer screens everyday in no particular order. And yet they form one steady rhythm: people choosing harm, again and again, in the space of ordinary days. And this past 10 days was A LOT. Start with D4vd, David Anthony Burke, twenty…
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Everyone Experiences Rampage
What now? You wake up to another one. This one hits your feed at dawn. Shreveport. A house you could have passed any Saturday. Eight kids gone. Their father pulled the trigger. Seven were his own. He ran, carjacked a ride, met his end in the street. Two mothers fight for breath in the hospital.…
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Grifter, Huckster, Preacher, or Scammer? (Part 1)
The line between a life changing pitch and a soul crushing hustle has never been thinner. You see them on your feed every day: the high energy speakers, the so called brand builders, and the lifestyle coaches promising a way out of the mud. We come from a history that makes us hungry for inspiration.…
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Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Te…
[ad_1] ?si=sPXB5teJO7wsm71F The Pacific Palisades fire of January 25 destroyed much of that coastal Los Angeles neighborhood, but it somehow spared the Charles and Ray Eames house. Anyone who’s paid it a visit, or at least pored over the many photos of it in existence, knows that it’s more than a preserved work of California…
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Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Pai…
[ad_1] No art enthusiast’s visit to the United Kingdom would be complete without days at the British Museum, the Tate, the V&A and the National Gallery. The fact that all those respected institutions are in London constitutes a plausible excuse never to stray outside the capital. But that capital is surrounded, lest we forget, by…
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Let’s Be Yearny: What Celibacy Taught Me about Sexual Desire
[ad_1] Asking a celibate guy for advice on intimacy feels, to many, like asking a vegetarian to judge a barbecue competition. But that assumption says more about our cultural scripts than it does about celibacy. In the ’60s, the sexual liberation movement argued that we needed romance and sex to be happy but that sex…
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I Could Never Afford an Executive Assistant—Until Claude Became Mine
For as long as I can remember, I’ve watched CEOs glide through their days while someone else held the wheel. The executive assistant wasn’t just an employee. She was the quiet architect of their entire existence. She knew the calendar better than they did. She spotted the money moves before they did. She turned raw…
