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Hello and happy weekend. My brain ran out of words this week so I did what I always do when I hit the creative floor: I took a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a nice day out, I browsed by myself, and I left feeling restored
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The most prescient record of the next four or infinite years is DIIV’s “Frog in Boiling Water,” which got a nasty review and a 7.5 from Pitchfork last year. I listened to “Frog in Boiling Water” a lot after its release, despite being totally uninterested in DIIV prior
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Hell is seeing your formative years performed as a costume by the generation behind you. Earlier this year, I felt those flames flickering in my face when I willingly made the choice to attend an “indie sleaze” nostalgia party at an 18-and-up nightclub in Brooklyn. I learned a lot that
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In my adolescence, I trusted the band Brand New — and specifically frontman Jesse Lacey — to help put words to the complicated feelings I couldn’t understand. He made no secret that he was often incredibly depressed, distrusting of those around him, and often cruel to them, too. His work grappled
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The United States has a strange relationship with train travel. The first transcontinental railroad finally helped connect the enormous amount of land our government had purchased or stolen as colonists made their way westward. Trains united our states, but passenger rail is inefficient or irrelevant now in most of our
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Americans have spent 18 years pondering one unanswerable question: Did Tony die in that diner or not? Over here in Lindseyland, I’ve been wondering about something else. Who bought Tony’s clothes? Did he hit the bowling shirt racks himself, or did Carmela do the clothes shopping for him?
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On a recent Saturday morning, my phone started lighting up with up-close images of the inside of an anonymous professional pitcher’s elbow. I was on the phone with Dr. Keith Meister, an orthopedic surgeon who is typically the first or second call for a baseball player who needs his
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I have a story in the New York Times today about skateboarding. Specifically, it is about vert (big-air) skating, which nearly died out in the years immediately following Tony Hawk landing the 900 at the X-Games. Now, kids across the world have discovered the joy of aerials, and Hawk is
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