Category Culture

Kodi Professional: Подорож у світ професійного манікюру

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

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?

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…

Pascal Campion’s “Into the Light”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the April 8, 2024, issue, Pascal Campion, an artist who often discusses his interest in light, set out to capture a feeling that sometimes seizes New Yorkers…

In Praise of the Benediction

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My husband’s parents had invited a revered pastor—or moksanim, in Korean—to participate in our wedding. “He’s known for his benedictions,” my husband said. I didn’t know someone could specialize in benedictions,…

Diamond Dallas Page Tells America to Breathe

The retired professional wrestler preaches a positive message of person-centered self-improvement. With his grit and populist charisma, legendary wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, aka DDP, rose to the height of pop culture in 1997–1999 as he brought the wrestling world to…

Piecing for Cover

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Mark Darrell’s life began to unravel on a Tuesday morning in September, 2004, in Anbar Province. A marine staff sergeant, a steady, seventeen-year veteran with only a week to go in…

“Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show” Is Exhibitionism as Art

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last month, Tina Fey offered a warning to comedians on the cusp of stardom that swiftly went viral: “Authenticity is dangerous and expensive.” Guesting on the pop-culture podcast “Las Culturistas,” the…