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View ArticleIt’s Time To Leave Philip Seymour Hoffman Alone
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View ArticleAmy Winehouse’s Manager Nick Shymansky: “The 27 Club Needs to Disappear”
Amy Winehouse, via Flickr When Nick Shymansky was 19, he met a 16-year-old Amy Winehouse at a pub in North London. He was struggling to get a foothold in the music industry; she’d dropped out of high...
View ArticleBrew School: Or Everything You Want to Know about Coffee But Were Afraid to Ask
Photos by Alex Srp Most of us take coffee for granted. We drink it liberally, mindlessly, day in, day out. Does it have caffeine? Great. Is it hot? Perfect. Can I have it as soon as I get out of bed?...
View ArticleWorst Year: My Brother’s Death Is An Open Door
After losing my brother to a heroin overdose this past fall, I now have an Inside Out-ish perception of how my brain functions. I imagine my mind stocked with little men in khaki jumpsuits, packing...
View ArticleKeeping The Demons At Bay With Mass Gothic + “A Run” (Premiere)
It’s a cutesy trope used in romantic comedies. It might evoke eye-rolls from perpetually single friends. But in a caricature of coupledom, there’s a standard measure of closeness between two...
View ArticleThe Daily Mail Is Thrilled That Lou Reed Is Dead
On a day filled with sincere tributes, the crazy change of pace that absolutely no one asked for: The Daily Mail’s bizarre, posthumous takedown of Lou Reed, entitled “A VERY debauched walk on the wild...
View ArticlePhilip Seymour Hoffman and the Tragedy of Addiction
“Everyone’s life is grotesque if you look close enough.” Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose yesterday at the age of 46. Hoffman had long talked about the addiction problems he’d...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Leave Philip Seymour Hoffman Alone
My morning routine of browsing the Daily Mail while I wait for the caffeine to kick in always feels at least a little bad—c’mon, it’s the Daily Mail–but today’s offerings were an entirely new level of...
View ArticleAmy Winehouse’s Manager Nick Shymansky: “The 27 Club Needs to Disappear”
Amy Winehouse, via Flickr When Nick Shymansky was 19, he met a 16-year-old Amy Winehouse at a pub in North London. He was struggling to get a foothold in the music industry; she’d dropped out of high...
View ArticleBrew School: Or Everything You Want to Know about Coffee But Were Afraid to Ask
Photos by Alex Srp Most of us take coffee for granted. We drink it liberally, mindlessly, day in, day out. Does it have caffeine? Great. Is it hot? Perfect. Can I have it as soon as I get out of bed?...
View ArticleWorst Year: My Brother’s Death Is An Open Door
After losing my brother to a heroin overdose this past fall, I now have an Inside Out-ish perception of how my brain functions. I imagine my mind stocked with little men in khaki jumpsuits, packing...
View ArticleKeeping The Demons At Bay With Mass Gothic + “A Run” (Premiere)
It’s a cutesy trope used in romantic comedies. It might evoke eye-rolls from perpetually single friends. But in a caricature of coupledom, there’s a standard measure of closeness between two...
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