People & culture
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NOT JUST BEEF
THIS IS NOT Beyond The Ropes: Shields, Ali, Baumgardner, and The Mirror We All DodgeJUST BEEF: IT’S BLOODLINES, PRIDE, AND THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY Let’s strip away the lace, the legacy talk, the statistics lobbed like warning shots. What we’ve got here is women’s boxing reaching for a reckoning, teetering between progress and drama, support…
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The New Currency: What We Can’t Touch, We Can Still Build
We’re living in the age of the intangible.Not in the clouds — but close enough. The barbershop’s still there. The beauty salon, the corner store, the gas pump — they’re not going anywhere. But most business now lives in the ether. It’s been moving that way for decades, and if you’re still waiting for a…
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The Sympathy Weapon: How Lames Trap You With Tears
Peep the game. You got a big heart, and the streets will bleed it dry if you let ’em. You see somebody struggling and your first instinct is to reach out, to pull ’em up. But you gotta ask yourself: are they reaching for your hand, or are they tryna pull you down into the…
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Stop Chasing Love. Start Stacking Leverage.
Real talk, too many of y’all are out here moving like fiends, chasing a feeling. You’re begging for a crumb of attention, a drop of affection, and getting played by lames who see your desperation from a mile away. You think the game is about love? Nah. The game is, and always has been, about…
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New Musical! “COFFEE” is Now Streaming Everywhere!
☕ Coffee: The Musical ☕Not just a drink — a whole mood. This show takes the daily ritual we all know and spins it into a soulful, steamy, full-bodied musical experience. Each song is like a fresh brew: bold, smooth, and sometimes bittersweet. Expect harmonies that hit like a double shot, humor that bubbles like…
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12 of the most striking images of 2025 so far
[ad_1] Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images 10. Ballet students, Tembisa, South Africa A photo of two 5-year-old ballet students, Philasande Ngcobo and Yamihle Gwababa, posing in July outside a dance academy in Tembisa, South Africa, was powerful and touching. The stark contrast between parched ground, chiselled shadow and delicate dresses recalls the rigorous aesthetic angularities of Degas’s countless…
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Reparations — Since 1776: The Musical
Some stories don’t sit quietly on the page. They demand rhythm. They demand harmony. They demand a stage. That’s where Reparations — Since 1776: The Musical begins — not as entertainment, but as a living score to a debt America never paid. From the fields where cotton once grew to the mics we stand behind…
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Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like …
[ad_1] Image by Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons When New York City hosted The World’s Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would look like 50 years hence — assuming the world survived the nuclear threats of the Cold…
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Not epistemic enough to be discussed
[ad_1] The following text is a chapter from Decolonising Art: Beyond the Obvious (2025), a publication that summarizes and documents a public programme of the same name from the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. academia will talk about decolonization it will talk about it all the time…
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Games, Souls, and the Problem of Arbitrary Social Relations …
[ad_1] Note: This article contains potential spoilers for The Snow Girl. Miren: I’m not a very good journalist, you know. Nacho: [Laughs]…No? Miren: No… The rules, the… technique… I’m not the best at that. But I know how much you suffer when [expletive] your life. Victims don’t have to be perfect. We shouldn’t ask that…