Sleeveen
Sly culture critique from Chris Norris—Spin, New York, NYer, NYT Mag, Film Comment, Rolling Stone, co-author RZA’s The Tao of Wu. Flashbacks, jumpcuts, cheap heat.
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Infinite Stroll (opens the original)
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How to Survive in South Central (England) (opens the original)
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Welcome to the second half of our impromptu series, Let’s Go England, Sleeveen! That is, an NYC-based recovering hipster’s impressions of a late-August visit to that sceptered isle. Made as the U.S. slid further into its own Madness of King George era. But let’s try and keep this light, upbeat, and as summery as possible in this first full week of NYC public school.<div class="subscrip
The View (opens the original)
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London Bye Ta-Ta* (opens the original)
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“Where to start exploring London for the first time, a city of roughly 10 million people with its endlessly diverse and trendsetting culture?” So begins the fold-out travel package of today’s NYT, which goes on to mention Buckingham Palace, drop the inevitable Samuel Johnson quote, and offer four pages of reco’s ranging from blue chip to basic to sucker cut (pubs! black cabs and double-deckers! fish and chips! etc.).It’s all good. But having just been there myself—for my first time as a tourist,
The Queen Is Dead (opens the original)
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Like most people who admired her from afar, I was surprised and really sad to learn about the passing of singer Cassandra Wilson yesterday, one week after another vocal giant, Dolly Parton, passed away, just ten years older. None of this makes much sense, and I don’t any have theories about whatever harmonic convergence took these two women from us now, at a time that still feels too soon. I just want to celebrate the one that I knew slightly better. I wrote two published articles about Wilson t
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