New York “media folks” are having a hard time scoring weed since GQ profiled their dealers
It’s a big week for weed in the media. The biggest. Everybody’s got their 4/20-friendly pieces dropping. Or they’re getting that evergreen (ever-green, you see) content back up on social.… Read more »
Buzzfeed re-allows unironic usage of the word “millennial”
“Millennial.” It sounds like a class of elusive flower that blooms once every thousand years. And while we know the word actually refers to the demographic born between the early eighties and the early… Read more »
You hip? This scratch-and-sniff weed book may be for you
“It’s a scratch and sniff book — about weed,” is something that someone, somewhere, uttered in an editorial meeting. Perhaps they even punctuated the sentence with an insouciant “maaaaan.” We can’t… Read more »
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden Sign Book Deal
As we near the symbolic hundredth day of our new administration, we can all relax as everything seems to be proceeding normally, and the gears of power are turning as if they… Read more »
National (Pastime) Poetry Month
Ahh yes. The fresh-cut grass. The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. These can only signal one thing: National Poetry Month is upon us. And in a happy coincidence,… Read more »
Chicken Soup for the Juggalo Soul
I do consume some media besides Cleveland Scene, but lately I have found that outlet consistently notable. Last week for example, Eric Sandy, managing editor and staff writer for that paper, wrote… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal newsroom staff demands diversity
The time for increased diversity in publishing is long overdue. And many corners of the industry have devoted this particular moment to addressing the problem, with literary agents, book publishers, festivals, and authors rising… Read more »
Bowie Studies vs. Bowieology: The evolution of a discipline
I’d be hard pressed to think of a pop icon whose oeuvre—indeed whose very being—attracts more critical inquiry than David Bowie’s. Even so, as cultural critic Mark Dery writes for the Los… Read more »
Donald Trump is pleased that his tweets may have sidelined Colin Kaepernick
We’ve now developed a pretty clear sense of where Donald Trump gets his news. In fact, we can often watch a reported story become a presidential tweet, or, God forbid,… Read more »
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Print What I Want: Morrissey’s James Baldwin merchandise
Donning my lintless white cotton gloves and taking to the MobyLives archive, I find a surprising many articles about Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey to those as close to him as… Read more »