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Category: CULTURE

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New Music Monday: The Killers and Girl Friday

August 24, 2020

A lot of great new music just came out on Friday — here’s two of the albums that you need to listen to, according to Sylvia June. The Killers, Imploding The Mirage Release Date: August 21, 2020 Why I Like It: The entirety of Imploding the Mirage sounds like “Mr. Brightside” worked through that soul […]
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New Music Monday: Glass Animals, Phantom Planet and Bad Moves

August 6, 2020

Wanna get your groove on this week? Listen to this new music brought to you by our very own Sylvia June. Just do it. You’ll like it. Glass Animals, Dreamland Release Date: August 7, 2020 Why I Like It: I first heard Glass Animals in my best friends car on a road trip, and it […]
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Dinner and a Movie with the Moons

August 6, 2020

This month we watch the infinite time loop comedic gold of Palm Springs and grill that Iowa summer sweet corn. Mango BBQ Sweet Corn Ingredients: 6 ears of sweet corn ½ cup of red onion, finely chopped 1 lime, cut in half 1 cup of Mango Deadeye BBQ 1 tbsp olive oil Instructions: Turn […]
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Book Report: The Sinful Seven

August 5, 2020

Ever get just punched in the mouth by how awesome a book is? It happened to me, and it’s all Vox Media’s fault. They had the best sportswriters of a generation and they squandered them in the face of Covid. Not great for long term security of the writers who lost their gigs, but hugely […]
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New Music Mondays: Alanis Morissette, Brandy and Becca Mancari

August 3, 2020

I am an unabashed fan of strong female artists. Tori Amos will forever be the queen of music, but Alanis Morissette is right up there in the pantheon for me. The seething angst of her first (and decidedly most famous) song “You Oughta Know” debuted right around the time I turned 13. I still have […]
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Taylor Swift: Cottagecore Mode Activated

July 27, 2020

Taylor Swift heard we’re going to be in lockdown for the foreseeable future and dropped a surprise album, Folklore. Swift’s eight studio album is the perfect 2020 album for sitting alone in your room on the floor crying. The subdued instrumentals and lyrics of Folklore create an album of feelings that you’ll probably listen to […]
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What a Long, Strange Trip

June 24, 2020

This week, body care company North Coast Organics introduced a Grateful Dead line of deodorant. It will presumably enable you to bring your favorite smells of bong resin and grilled cheese sandwiches to the office and offend your cube neighbors’ olfactory senses without the added price of fuel and a concert ticket. The new line […]
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New Music Monday: Run The Jewels and Mourning [A] BLKstar

June 22, 2020

Our girl Sylvia June brings you recently released albums each week that she thinks you might enjoy. Or not. Whatever… Things are seemingly getting back to normal in many parts of the country. Or maybe our “normal” is changing forever. Either way, these two new albums are taking us into the future one beat at […]
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This is America…Still

June 3, 2020

When thinking about this system that keeps the voices of people of color at the fringes, I return to the Audre Lorde quote “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
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Forgotten Denzel Gems

May 27, 2020

Quarantine has driven me (and probably a fair number of us) down numerous movie rabbit holes, so it only feels proper that I share snippets from one of my favorite internet expeditions: Denzel Washington. He’s one of the most recognized and influential actors of our time, known primarily for movies like Remember the Titans, Training […]
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