Desus & Mero on Beyoncé at Coachella

Entertainment Weekly – "Early Emmy plea: Desus & Mero is a late-night contender"

Jeff Bezos's Washington D.C. Home

Town & Country – "Jeff Bezos Is Renovating the Biggest House in Washington, D.C."
Washingtonian – "Here Are the Floor Plans for Jeff Bezos’s $23 Million DC Home"

"In 2016, the Amazon founder and Washington Post owner paid $23 million in cash for the former Textile Museum in Kalorama (yes, his neighbors are the Obamas and Kushner-Trumps). At 27,000 square feet, the mansion was already the biggest home in Washington before he began a $12 million renovation and expansion last year."

"Overseen by the Barnes Vanze architecture firm, the reno project covers 191 doors (many either custom mahogany or bronze), 25 bathrooms, 11 bedrooms, five living rooms/lounges, five staircases, three kitchens, two libraries/studies, two workout rooms, two elevators—and a huge ballroom."

"The mansion actually comprises two homes, the Pope and the Wood, which date back to the early 1900s and are joined by a connecting walkway."

New York City, 1981 - 1983: 36 Months That Changed the Culture

T Magazine – "New York City, 1981 - 1983: 36 Months That Changed the Culture"

"Of course, inhabitants of other great metropolises experience similar sensations, but the feeling is more intense in New York, in part because the city is both younger than and smaller than many other places that have at one point of another determined the global cultural agenda. How is it, then, that a town with millions fewer people than Tokyo, Mexico City, Beijing, Sao Paulo or Mumbai has been responsible for such a disproportionate amount of the aesthetic language and iconography of the modern age? Perhaps the answer is that this city – like this country – is composed significantly of migrants, and New York has always been the place to prove your mettle. Our fierce, collective ambition – our determination to be the "best," however you define the word – contributes not only to the city's thrum (and everyday brutalities), but is also responsible for the excessiveness of our output. Anyone who comes here knows that time is merciless and life is brief; one is always aware (sometimes consumingly so) of one's place in the race."

- T Magazine Editor Hanya Yanagihara

Wild Wild Country

Sorry to Bother You

July 6, 2018
Written & Directed by Boots Riley
Starring Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer

Gizmodo – "Sorry to Bother You Is the Most Surreal, Important Scifi Movie in Years"

The Philadelphia 76ers Practice with a 4-Point Line

Wall Street Journal – "The NBA Team With a 4-Point Line"

Prince's Original Version of "Nothing Compares 2 U"

Pitchfork – "Listen to Prince’s Original Version of “Nothing Compares 2 U”"