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The Day Ram Dass Died

The Day Ram Dass Died 1

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I woke up every thirty minutes the night before Ram Dass died. Stretching my perception through the big divider that separated his study—where I lay on a narrow couch—from his bedroom,…

Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere

Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere 4

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I’m quite different from other people,” the legendary eighty-six-year-old Czech photographer Josef Koudelka was saying the other day at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea, where his first solo American show in…

Trump’s Social-Media Potemkin Village

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last Tuesday, the day of Truth Social’s I.P.O., under the ticker symbol DJT, the social-media company co-founded by Donald Trump reached a short-lived market capitalization of more than six billion dollars.…

Kodi Professional: Подорож у світ професійного манікюру

Kodi Professional: Подорож у світ професійного манікюру 24

Kodi Professional: Подорож у світ професійного манікюру В современном мире красоты и ухода за собой профессиональная косметика для маникюра занимает важное место. Среди лидеров отрасли – бренд Kodi Professional, который предлагает широкий спектр продукции для создания идеального маникюра. В этой…

Conductors Had One Job. Now They Have Three or Four

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I love my three orchestras,” the twenty-eight-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä said the other day on WQXR, during a broadcast from Carnegie Hall. Mäkelä was leading an all-Stravinsky concert with the…

Can Beyoncé Ever Burn Down the Barn?

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Here she comes round again, the horse goddess. When Beyoncé released “Renaissance,” in the summer of 2022—a paean to house music and disco, and to the Black queer people who invented…