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Nina Vasquez

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Why the Inventory Podcast Is Essential Listening for Design Lovers
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Why the Inventory Podcast Is Essential Listening for Design Lovers

The Inventory podcast, hosted by Highsnobiety founder David Fischer and creative director Christopher Morency, occupies a unique niche in the design media landscape.

2024-11-05

How Ice Spice Changed the Sound of New York Rap
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How Ice Spice Changed the Sound of New York Rap

When Ice Spice's Munch dropped in 2022, it was immediately clear that something had shifted in New York rap.

2024-11-04

Why Astro Bot Proved Platformers Still Matter
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Why Astro Bot Proved Platformers Still Matter

When Team Asobi released Astro Bot in September 2024, the gaming discourse was dominated by live-service shutdowns and open-world fatigue.

2024-11-03

The Best Gaming Headsets That Don't Look Ridiculous
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The Best Gaming Headsets That Don't Look Ridiculous

The gaming headset market has a design problem.

2024-10-30

How Hidetaka Miyazaki Became the Most Important Game Director Alive
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How Hidetaka Miyazaki Became the Most Important Game Director Alive

Hidetaka Miyazaki's influence on video games is so pervasive that an entire genre bears his creative fingerprint.

2024-10-28

How Travis Scott's Concerts Became a Cultural Event
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How Travis Scott's Concerts Became a Cultural Event

Travis Scott built his career around the idea that a concert should be an experience so overwhelming it rewrites your sensory expectations.

2024-10-25

Why Barry Jenkins Makes the Most Beautiful Films in Hollywood
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Why Barry Jenkins Makes the Most Beautiful Films in Hollywood

Barry Jenkins makes films that look like memories feel.

2024-10-18

How Donald Glover Built the Most Ambitious Creative Empire
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How Donald Glover Built the Most Ambitious Creative Empire

Donald Glover operates across more creative disciplines at a higher level than almost anyone in entertainment history.

2024-10-16

How Mk.gee Made Lo-Fi Guitar Cool Again
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How Mk.gee Made Lo-Fi Guitar Cool Again

Michael Gordon, recording as Mk.

2024-10-13

Why You Should Be Playing Hades II Right Now
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Why You Should Be Playing Hades II Right Now

Hades II entered early access in May 2024 and immediately proved that Supergiant Games understood what made the original special while having the ambition to expand it significantly.

2024-10-13

Why Slow Cinema Might Be Exactly What You Need Right Now
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Why Slow Cinema Might Be Exactly What You Need Right Now

Slow cinema is exactly what it sounds like: films that move at a deliberate, unhurried pace, often featuring long takes, minimal dialogue, and extended shots of landscapes.

2024-10-03

The Case for Going to the Movies Alone
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The Case for Going to the Movies Alone

Going to the movies alone carries an undeserved stigma.

2024-09-13

Why Everyone Is Watching Korean Dramas Now (and You Should Too)
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Why Everyone Is Watching Korean Dramas Now (and You Should Too)

Korean dramas went from niche subtitled imports to global mainstream entertainment in under a decade.

2024-09-10

How Ayo Edebiri Became the Internet's Favorite Person
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How Ayo Edebiri Became the Internet's Favorite Person

Ayo Edebiri didn't follow the usual Hollywood playbook.

2024-09-09

The 15 Best Podcasts for Guys Who Hate Bro Podcasts
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The 15 Best Podcasts for Guys Who Hate Bro Podcasts

The podcast landscape is cluttered with shows that mistake volume for insight and controversy for content.

2024-09-08

Why The Gentlemen Is the Best Thing Streaming Right Now
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Why The Gentlemen Is the Best Thing Streaming Right Now

Netflix The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie series expansion of his 2019 film, follows Eddie Halstead, played by Theo James, an aristocratic British army officer who inherits his father estate and discovers it sits atop a massive cannabis operation.

2024-08-30

Why Ripley Is the Best Thing Streaming Right Now
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Why Ripley Is the Best Thing Streaming Right Now

Netflix Ripley, an eight-episode adaptation of Patricia Highsmith 1955 novel, reimagines the story in stunning black-and-white cinematography that transforms 1960s Italy into a noir dreamscape.

2024-08-28

Why Pachinko Is the Best Thing Streaming Right Now
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Why Pachinko Is the Best Thing Streaming Right Now

Apple TV Pachinko, adapted from Min Jin Lee bestselling novel, spans four generations of a Korean family from Japanese-occupied Korea in the early 1900s to 1989 Tokyo.

2024-08-26

Why Beef Is the Best Thing Streaming Right Now
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Why Beef Is the Best Thing Streaming Right Now

Netflix Beef, created by Lee Sung Jin, starts with a road rage incident between two strangers and escalates into a darkly comic exploration of rage, shame, class anxiety, and existential emptiness.

2024-08-24

How to Dress for a Gallery Opening
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How to Dress for a Gallery Opening

Gallery openings are one of the few social events where both overdressing and underdressing are equally common.

2024-08-22