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The Many Voices of Boots Riley |

On a recent afternoon in West Hollywood, at the front desk of the Standard Hotel, Boots Riley stood underneath a box-shaped glass tank where, in the evening, girls—sometimes men, occasionally drag queens, but usually women—sit in a floating, clear container.…

Why Artists Need Oddball Artist Residencies |

There may be no more trenchant metaphor for the creative process than the Artist in Residence program at the San Francisco Transfer and Recycling Center, a forty-seven-acre garbage dump on the western banks of the 101. Since 1990, select artists…

How Harry Potter changed the world

Almost exactly 20 years ago, on September 1, 1998, Scholastic published Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first US edition of the UK’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Harry Potter has since became such an all-encompassing phenomenon that…