Kelsey McKinney

1 week ago | defector.com | Kelsey McKinney

There is one feed—a remote line described as a "long extension cord"—that connects the radar for air traffic above Newark Airport to the air traffic controllers in Philadelphia, who make sure that planes take off and land safely. The line has gone down at least twice before, and last week, on Apr. 28, it went down again. “We use floppy disks. We use copper wires,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Friday.

1 month ago | buttondown.com | Kelsey McKinney

As the dowager queen, it is my duty to alert you that NORMAL GOSSIP premiered its brand new season last week. I’m so excited to see what Rachelle & Se’era do with this season, and it is such a fuckin’ treat to actually get to listen to the episodes like everyone else!Last week, my own broken brain reminded me of Jo Ann Beard’s 1996 essay “The Fourth State of Matter” about her dog dying and a shooting she missed because of it.

1 month ago | defector.com | Kelsey McKinney

In late February, I caught wind of a salacious rumor involving students at Ole Miss. Obviously, since I do not make a habit of keeping apprised of the sex lives of college students, it came to my attention because it had already garnered a lot of attention online. The rumor was spreading via a photo of a paragraph of text from someone’s Snapchat DMs that had gone viral on YikYak, a social media app primarily used by students.

1 month ago | defector.com | Kelsey McKinney

In 2018, I went to Pompeii. I did not particularly want to go to Pompeii, but we were on vacation in Italy, and my partner wanted to go, and so I obliged. We could eat in Naples, I reasoned. Then even if I did not have fun in the hot sun amongst the rocks and ruins of an ancient town, I would still be happy. But I was wrong; I enjoyed it. How do you not fawn over a perfectly preserved mosaic floor laid carefully in the entryway to a opulent home almost two thousand years ago?

1 month ago | airmail.news | Jim Kelly |Kelsey McKinney

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 Edited by Joanna Cannon, with Caroline Campbell and Stephan Wolohojian Those who missed this remarkable exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art this past winter can still catch it at London’s National Gallery this spring. If you can’t make it there (and even if you can), this sumptuous book should be in your home since it amply illustrates the wonders of a city’s art that shaped European art for centuries to come.