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1 week ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
How did porn, paparazzi, and Britney Spears all reshape feminism in the early 2000s? Author and Atlantic columnist Sophie Gilbert interrogates this and more in her new book released earlier this week, Girl on Girl, an incisive critique of early-aughts pop culture’s impact on the young female psyche, something she experienced firsthand.
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2 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
When Drain Gang member Ecco2k first met the boys behind the mysterious musical duo Nation, they weren’t quite what he expected. “You looked really crazy, but you’re some of the most sane people that I know,” he joked to Funball and Frank Jame (Will Wadhams and Frank Nadolny) when they reunited a few weeks ago.
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2 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Sausha, Pressure Point, and Eli Roth. This week’s installment comes from SoCal barbie Chase Icon, the hitmaker and former Twitter troll who made her musical debut with “SRS” in 2021 and hasn’t let up since.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Mekala Rajagopal
The 15 Best Travel Pants Our Editors Wear on Planes, Trains, and AutomobilesTraveling can be challenging, but deciding what to wear and bring on your next trip shouldn’t be. Gone are the days of worrying about how to fit an …
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3 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Tina Knowles is a mom to many, but it took a lifetime to put herself first. In a memoir out this April, the entrepreneur recalls her triumphs and traumas, from an impoverished childhood in the segregated South to building a family-run music empire alongside daughters Beyoncé and Solange—and a husband who couldn’t stay faithful. “I got tired of everybody else telling our story and judging us,” the 71-year-old reveals to Ellen Pompeo.
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3 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
To Vybz Kartel, born Adidja Palmer, “New York [City] is Jamaica 2.0.” So it’s no surprise that the dancehall icon’s blowout weekend at Barclays Center evoked the same feeling as his Kingston comeback a few months ago. The Freedom Street bash was Kartel’s first performance since his imprisonment 13 years back—and the largest music event in Jamaica in half a century—but he never let circumstances slow him, relentlessly dropping music from behind bars until his release last year.
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4 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Jordan Firstman won’t guard your secrets, but he might remix them. The writer, filmmaker, and comedian, known for Big Mouth, the Sundance-nominated Call Your Father, and the feature film Rotting in the Sun, started collecting his followers’ various secrets on Instagram around the time his pandemic impressions series started to go viral.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Colin Self is tapped in with their trickster self. It’s an archetype the multidisciplinary artist has had a lifelong relationship with, a mischievous spirit-world manifestation of the sentimentality that comes out in their work. From puppetry school to avant-drag with Hari Nef to opera with Raúl de Nieves, there are no limitations to Self’s expression. But their latest brainchild is the most pure and poignant yet.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Pressure Point, Eli Roth, and Benny Blanco. This week’s installment comes straight from the USB of New York nightlife vixen Sausha de la Ossa.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mel Ottenberg |Mekala Rajagopal
How does the daughter of two megastars end up so grounded, quick-witted, and sharp? Never mind that her mom built a wellness empire and her dad fronts one of the biggest bands on the planet—Apple Martin just has it. She grew up singing and playing guitar, and now, at 20, the Vanderbilt Law student splits her time between the library and the stage. On campus and at Interview, where she interned two summers ago, she’s just a regular girl with a private Instagram.
