Category: Whitney Mallett

Being from New York, D3AD6OY has had many strange encounters — it can get crazy here, sometimes very manic — still the musician doesn’t miss when it comes to being a vibe. His new video for the track “Strange” (the song’s title references its sampling…

Two sisters is, at its most fundamental level, the sorority effect, a cognitive bias that makes individuals appear more attractive when they are in a group. Sisters are always hotter than the hot girl sum of their parts.

Tamara Faith Berger writes the best similes. Like the rest of her prose, they’re visceral and utilitarian. “My mouth felt like wallpaper glue” or “the smell from her shorts was like milk on the verge.” The pleasure of Berger’s language, the way it grabs you—you can flip open a page at random and it’ll still sink its hooks into you.

Mexico City is the new Berlin. A few years ago I heard someone announce it. All the kids who show at Berlin galleries show here too. All the same techno DJs play. I’m pretty convinced the world doesn’t need any more artists.

REPORT BY WHITNEY MALLETT PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17  You can buy lots of things in Dubai that you can buy in other places around the world: Tim Hortons Timbits, Louis Vuitton backpacks, Samsung VR headsets. In the malls, the stores are the same as everywhere…

Gobby’s music evokes a cartoonish sense of possibility, where the laws of physics don’t apply and people and things can stretch like elastic bands. Noisy, electronic, and approaching ominous, an intuitive pop sensibility permeates the mental-as-hell music he makes. In his newest track “Northeastern Promises”—a…

Do you suffer from wry neck, also known as torticollis or turtleneck syndrome? Now you don’t have to give up your interconnected life as a networked global citizen for a healthy supple spine. Text and scroll for hours from a comfortable, supported position with this…

“Maybe we’ll see Yoko Ono,” said Orlando Estrada when I ran into him at the Perez Arts Museum Miami. Yoko was nowhere to be found but famous artist Chuck Close was there. I didn’t get a picture because I’m not a very good party photographer,…