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How Condé Nast bought and destroyed America's iconic music publication | Semafor

At Maxwell we’re trying to reframe social clubs to be around this idea of inclusive exclusivity - you may not be able to get into the Soho Maxwell, maybe it’s full or you just aren’t friends with those people. Or maybe you can’t afford it, but that’s ok because we’re creating a system within which multiple Maxwells can be started at various price p... See more

David Litwak • Inclusive Exclusivity - Self-Cancelling Greek Life And Our Broken Vocabulary Around Curation (Cafe Society Dinner Discussion #11)

Depp vs Heard trial offered a window into the future of media, where content creators serve as the personalities breaking news to an increasing number of viewers — and, in turn, define the online narrative around major events. In this new landscape, every big news event becomes an opportunity to amass followers and clout, and the money that inevita... See more

The Pop Craveification of Breaking News

‘Clap for the Bitch’, ‘10,000 Screaming Faggots’, ‘That Butch Queen Don’t

Matthew Collin • Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music

For his bold judicial opinion he received bushels of letters threatening to kill him and telling him he’d burn in hell for eternity. Kramer had to live with twenty-four-hour police protection and wear a bulletproof vest under his judicial robes. He also strapped on a gun.41

Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

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The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel

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Meat Loaf might have been sincere, but he was just a fat goofball who was cool in spite of himself. But Bruce was trying to save you. He appealed to the kind of desperate intellectual who halfway believed that—when not recording or touring—Springsteen actually went back to New Jersey to work at a car wash. Before he even utters his lyrics, people a