At his home in the Bronx, where he lies in bed with a fever, Jose Peralta keeps replaying the scene in his head. It was Monday, March 16th, the start of an unusually hectic week at a Walgreens in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Peralta, a senior pharmacy …
Read More »Watch Anderson Cooper Eviscerate Rod Blagojevich During Heated Interview
CNN’s Anderson Cooper blasted former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich after the now-free, corrupt politician said that he had been a political prisoner. Blagojevich, who President Trump granted clemency to on Tuesday, said during an interview on Friday, “I am a political prisoner. I was put into prison for practicing politics.” …
Read More »'This Is Disastrous': How the Vinyl Industry Is Responding to the Apollo Masters Fire
The day that everyone in the vinyl-manufacturing world has been worried about for years finally arrived. Earlier this month, Apollo Masters Corp., one of the two places in the world that produce the lacquer discs needed to assemble master plates for pressing records, burned down. The blaze reportedly took 82 …
Read More »The Joy of Lizzo
L izzo knows that security guard was checking her out. It’s a crisp November evening in downtown Los Angeles, and she just breezed through a Sam Ash music store to see if they had a flute-studies book by Danish composer-flutist Karl Joachim Andersen; she wants to get back to practicing …
Read More »Mac Miller's Posthumous Album 'Circles' is a Fitting Coda to His Career
It is to Mac Miller’s great credit that he became more compelling the further his career progressed. He would have made millions if he had stayed true to his humble teenage beginnings as a sentient snapback hat, Lord Finesse admirer and legal opponent, and Pittsburgh’s sauciest white boy since Terry …
Read More »Why Do We Still Pay Only $10 a Month for Music?
Of the litany of things you can buy for $10 — a sandwich, a box of pens, and a print magazine among them — unlimited access to a catalog of 50 million songs is one of the most bang-for-your-buck options out there. But that’s how much music-streaming subscriptions have cost …
Read More »That Time Donald Trump Left Halfway Through a Performance of 'The Wall'
Long before Donald Trump was our omnipresent, problematic president, he was New York City’s omnipresent, problematic gadfly. He flexed his supposed billions to attend any number of events around town, from WWE WrestleManias at Madison Square Garden to baby-boomer rock concerts. In 2008, he went to so many Neil Young …
Read More »Coming Out in Uganda Was a Death Sentence. The U.S. Border Was a Trap
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MEXICO — Margaret didn’t know what was going to happen when she approached the bridge between Juárez and El Paso, but she knew she couldn’t wait anymore. Six months since fleeing her home after being raped and repeatedly beaten for the crime of being a lesbian, the 20-year-old …
Read More »What to Know About the World of 'Watchmen'
HBO’s upcoming drama Watchmen, debuting October 20th, is at once a huge deviation from the 1986 comic book that inspired it and a faithful sequel. It takes place 34 years after the events of the comic, many of its characters are brand new — as is its thematic focus on …
Read More »The Next Recession Is Going to Be Brutal
Market-watchers enjoying their first sip of coffee around 6 a.m. might have done a spit-take. For a brief period Wednesday morning, yields on two-year Treasury bonds were higher than those on ten-year ones — a short-term investment was seen as riskier than a long term one, and the return therefore …
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