Sam Franzini is a Eugene M. Grant Fellow at Moment Magazine.
For these artists, being funded isn’t the problem so much as making songs that people connect with. An audience is surprisingly astute at sniffing out a phony, and just like any musicians, the actual quality of the songs here is quite a mixed bag. ...
In the first episode of 'Jewish Matchmaking,' a cross between 'Love Island' and 'Supernanny,' a shadchan was no longer ancient and religious, but vibrant and accommodating. ...
People joked about Göring, who was fat and vain. They said he had his medals made of rubber so he could wear them in the bath. ...
Goyslop naturally oozed out of this toxic environment, making its first appearance in 2016 on the online forum 4chan, where someone called In-N-Out burgers “greasy goyslop food.” ...

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“When you think M.I.A. is done and Satan puts a full stop, God puts a comma and says, ‘To be

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When I told my cousin I had listened to the new Kanye West album, BULLY, he was surprised. Ye is

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My Lover, the Rabbi By Wayne Koestenbaum Farrar Straus and Giroux, 464 pp.   It could be wisdom, it could

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Azealia Banks, the controversial rapper who once sacrificed chickens, publicly feuded with Elon Musk and claimed she was stuck in

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Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation By Michael Lowenthal Mad Creek Books, 296 pp   I, too, have been

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“You don’t know any shows or movies?” Adam Friedland asked Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, on The Adam

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