Issue
No. 131
January 15, 2022
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Red Rocket
Mikey Davis, a charming, once successful porn star, flees Los Angeles. With nowhere else to go, he returns to his hometown, Texas City, …
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Ta Khut at Posada Ayana
In José Ignacio, a quaint Uruguayan seaside town, South America’s first freestanding Skyspace…
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Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera
Over six episodes, Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera, a new…
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Adidas by Prada Re-Nylon
Just in time for These Times, Prada and Adidas have teamed up for the third incarnation…
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Tracie Martyn
According to Kate Winslet, a Tracie Martyn facial makes “you look like you’ve been on a two-week retreat to Thailand.” Since tropical…
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Wordle
In today’s online world of incessant pop-ups and ads, there’s something comforting about a plain white screen with 30 blank squares…
Watch
Red Rocket
Mikey Davis, a charming, once successful porn star, flees Los Angeles. With nowhere else to go, he returns to his hometown, Texas City, …
Visit
Ta Khut at Posada Ayana
In José Ignacio, a quaint Uruguayan seaside town, South America’s first freestanding Skyspace…
Listen
Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera
Over six episodes, Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera, a new…
Wear
Adidas by Prada Re-Nylon
Just in time for These Times, Prada and Adidas have teamed up for the third incarnation…
Apply
Tracie Martyn
According to Kate Winslet, a Tracie Martyn facial makes “you look like you’ve been on a two-week retreat to Thailand.” Since tropical…
Play
Wordle
In today’s online world of incessant pop-ups and ads, there’s something comforting about a plain white screen with 30 blank squares…
Man Out of Time
“I want you, I’m going to say it once again ’til I instill it / I am goin’, goin’ feel this way until you kill it.” Elvis Costello sang these relentless lines in 1986. He was younger then, and some of us were younger still. Yes, he sounded like a stalker, but for many of us that was our kind of fun. Costello, now 67, is presumably happily married (to chanteuse Diana Krall) and domesticated, but his muse still brims with bitterness and bile. And while he may have accepted an O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire), his songs sound miles from Buckingham Palace. READ ON
Architecture’s Avant-Garde A look at the transgressive styles that disrupted and remade 20th-century architecture
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The Best “Bad Girl”
A collection of magnificent songs by—and otherwise related to—the late, great Ronnie Spector, rock ’n’ roll’s original “bad girl”
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