Spencer Kornhaber
Culture Writer at The Atlantic
culture writer for @TheAtlantic. member of @theatlunion. he/him. https://t.co/WBmcnD3nB3
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3 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Spencer Kornhaber
Over the past year and a half, I’ve kept finding myself in unexpected conversations about Diddy. Cab drivers, deli cooks, and far-flung uncles have all wanted to chat about the 55-year-old rapper who’s now on trial for charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Spencer Kornhaber
About two years ago, Ezra Furman gave up—first in her mind, and then, it seemed, in her body. The 38-year-old singer was nearly two decades into a prolific rock-and-roll career. Her nervy, poetic sound had earned devoted fans and critical acclaim, plus a job soundtracking the Netflix TV show Sex Education.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Spencer Kornhaber
Listen1.0x0:0048:16Listen to more stories on harkLast year, I visited the music historian Ted Gioia to talk about the death of civilization. He welcomed me into his suburban-Texas home and showed me to a sunlit library. At the center of the room, arranged neatly on a countertop, stood 41 books. These, he said, were the books I needed to read.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Spencer Kornhaber
His bodysuit fitted as tight as a tourniquet, his little mustache pert and shampooed, the 22-year-old Benson Boone looked the part of the consummate Gen Z rock-and-roll heartthrob on the first night of this year’s Coachella music festival. He rushed around the stage while executing glass-shattering wails, belly-deep croons, backflips, front flips, and some more backflips. Yet as I watched the livestream three Fridays ago, I felt a slight sense of unease.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Spencer Kornhaber
2 days agoThe Meta CEO didn’t run a PR on Sunday, but we're not ready to say he ran ‘Pretty Slowly.’ For the third year in a row, tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg ran the Stanford Medicine My Heart Counts 5K—this time crossing the line in 20:35 on Sunday. Zuckerberg, running under the name “Martin Salzberg,” …
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RT @EricMGarcia: The fact that people need to speculate unfounded rumors about Diddy shows that to the general public, his alleged abuse of…
"There’s a lot of fists in the air in our culture, and I’m a little fatigued in the arm area." I spoke with Ezra Furman about protest music, defeat music, and life as a trans person right now— https://t.co/8QJv45am5l
RT @Avi_WA: Today on Studio 2: Does pop culture kinda suck now? Or has our nostalgia-tinged pessimism just been sent into overdrive? We d…