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How the Chiefs Became the Last Great American Dynasty

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Did you really think that the Kansas City Chiefs were not going to win the Super Bowl? It’s true that they struggled offensively this season, and entered the playoffs as a…

A Fuller Picture of the Oscars’ Best Picture Race

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Paul Valéry wrote that taste is made of a thousand distastes. Generally, it feels better to share the former than the latter, and toward the end of each year, when distributors…

Remembrances of Queer Auteurs Past

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Welcome, queer babies, to this reverse-conversion-therapy session! Our goal this evening is to make you queer.” It was a Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the playwright and…

Chelsea Wolfe’s Eclectic Hauntings

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The forty-year-old musician Chelsea Wolfe has roots in folk and country, but her music is imbued with the sonic weight of doom metal, with sludgy guitars and droning bass notes that…

A Pioneering Wizard of West Coast Photo-Conceptualism

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Robert Cumming, a pioneering wizard of West Coast photo-conceptualism, died in 2021, at the age of seventy-eight. He achieved brief semi-stardom in the nineteen-eighties, when he mounted solo exhibitions at both…

Roger J. Carter’s Toy Soldiers and Black Revolutionaries

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch Justin Fairweather’s “Roger J. Carter: Rebel Revolutionary.” One spring day in 2021, Justin Fairweather was driving around Los Angeles and stumbled upon an art exhibit of what appeared to be…