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6:50pm, 20 miles from Malibu, California, high above the water – the scene of the perfect American sunset. I’m walking up a steep winding cement road with my friend in […]

Loving too hard always felt like more of a liability than a point of beautiful character. She’s a freelance stylist who lives off of the Myrtle Broadway J and M […]

Like many American cis femme girls, I was pretty young when I fantasized about the idea of romantic partnership. “True love”, “husband”, “king”, “fairytale ending”, were all highly elusive terms […]

A major facet of modern day optimism sprouts from this idea that if you’ve experienced a certain number of bad events in your life – heartbreak, death, famine, injury, poverty, […]

I remember when I first read the story about Frida Kahlo’s bus accident. When she was 18 years old, the bus she was riding in got hit by a trolley […]

I recently took the stage at Smalls Jazz Club this past weekend – a hallmark of jazz tradition, rites of musical passage and cutting teeth through jam sessions, a jazz […]

I took AP Psychology in high school. I didn’t retain an incredible amount of info from that class due to my constant sleep deprivation and perpetual stress at the age […]

“Different Trains”  is a Steve Reich recording I essentially discovered by accident. When I first heard it, it made a severe, unsettling impression on me. I recognized polyphonic strings playing […]

Ethan Iverson (and presumably, the rest of the jazz world), I’m going to start with some disclaimers. I know you didn’t mean to cause any harm by your Robert Glasper […]