LAST MINUTE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
The holidays always tend to sneak up on us. First, it's Black Friday and we don't want buyers remorse so we hold off on buying gifts. The next thing we…
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NEW AGE DATING APPS GO BLIND TO BEAT INHERENT PREJUDICES
It's been just 53 years since Loving V. Virginia made interracial marriage legal across all 50 states. With the topic of race abuzz in the US, as well as the…
photos / Brandon Hicks
ALYCIA PASCUAL-PEÑA IS ‘SAVED BY THE BELL’
Everybody remembers watching the 1990s sitcom classic “Saved By The Bell” starring some of our all-time favorite actors and actresses from Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Lark Voorhies, and Tiffani Amber-Thiessen. Now,…
photo / Steve Zeitzoff
BEYOND THE STREETS: IN CONVERSATION WITH MISTER CARTOON
Los Angeles in the 1980s found itself simultaneously unraveling at the hems of social unrest and flourishing in amorphous creative prosperity. A teen at the time, Mark Machado expended…
photo / Michael Creagh
NATURI NAUGHTON IS TAKING CONTROL & OWNING HER ‘POWER’
The world was first introduced to Naturi Naughton as a member of one of the staple girl groups of my childhood, 3LW. “No More (Baby I’ma Do Right)” had…
photo courtesy of Monte Stevens
ON DAY OF MOURNING
I have been to so many funerals, I have lost count. I am not trying to say that death, or rather, my exposure to it, has made me a stronger…
photo / Walter Wlodarczyk
CUQUITA THE CUBAN DOLL CHALLENGES THE WHITE ART WORLD ELITE
It is 2018. In front of the 14th street Union Square stop, Yali Romagoza sits in complete stillness. The sign next to her reads: “Hello, my name is Cuquita…
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? QVEEN HERBY
There’s just something about Qveen Herby. I don’t know if it’s her feel good music, her glowing personality, the fact that she can rap about anything in the world and…
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? DONNA MISSAL
Donna Missal has big fans. Like, big fans. Shania Twain, for example. But having fangirls means being a role model, and Donna knows how to be one. She is…
THE OTHER SIDE OF ME
THE OTHER SIDE OF ME When you google search phrases relating to the fashion style of this shoots concept, for example, “leather fetish fashion shoot” all you see are white…
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? DEATHBYROMY
DeathByRomy is no stranger to the unconventional. She’s been referred to as a goth-pop star, and “Gen Z’s dark princess of pop” by PAPER. But if there’s anything she…
photo / LADYGUNN
PASS THE MIC WITH ALICE GLASS & THE 83RD
Enigmatic alt musician Alice Glass's latest single is as grotesque as we'd expect from her. "Nightmares", a crunching, glitchy and delightfully chaotic lambast, was crafted alongside Jupiter Keyes. The single…