SMOKE BREAK
“Twinks Are Persisting”: A Ten-Minute Cig With Club Rash Boss Jen Sillen
May 16, 2024
For this week’s edition of Smoke Break, we lit one up with the nightclub don diva who recently revived Bushwick hotspot Rash after an arson attack left the club in ruins.
RORSCHACH TEST
Bruce LaBruce on Gen Z, GHB, and Double Penetration
May 16, 2024
In this week’s Rorschach Test, the artist and pornographer sounds off on Pride Month, steam rooms, campus protests, and his “deep sexual fetish for rough trade.”
IN CONVERSATION
For Jane Schoenbrun And Richard Kelly, Making Movies Is a Religious Experience
May 16, 2024
The director of the coming-of-age film “I Saw The TV Glow” talks to their idol Richard Kelly about suburban youth and making movies in an era of “Marvel hegemony.”
BACKSTAGE
How Maia Novi Turned Her Mental Breakdown Into the Season’s Buzziest Play
May 16, 2024
The writer and star of the off-Broadway phenomenon “Invasive Species” talked to us about Argentinian main character syndrome and chasing the American dream.
WUB WUB
A. G. Cook on EDM Bros, British Snark, and Rihanna’s Comeback
May 15, 2024
The prolific artist and producer, whose new album “Britpop” dropped last week, is joined in conversation by his former PC music pupil, multimedia artist Matt Copson.
TOUR DIARY
BLP Kosher Will Sign Your Positive Pregnancy Test
May 15, 2024
In this week’s Tour Diary, the NJB of Florida rap takes us behind the scenes of his headlining tour, from getting detained at the Canadian border to living on a bus full of Hot Funyuns.
LIT
In Her New Story Collection, Author Pemi Aguda Invites Readers For a Haunting
May 15, 2024
“I have not experienced ghosts personally, but perhaps my stories are an invitation to them,” says the author of “Ghostroots,” a collection of haunted stories set in her native Lagos.
SOUND ADVICE
Tom Krell of How to Dress Well Is Pop Music’s Resident Philosopher
May 14, 2024
In this week’s SOUND ADVICE, the multimedia artist rang in the release of his new album by curating us a playlist of his faves: Mariah Carey, 1010benja, and Nirvana.
it-girl
“There’s a Massive Disco Ball”: Alexa Chung Reviews Gucci Cruise 2025
May 14, 2024
After Sabato de Sarno’s first Cruise collection for Gucci, we recapped the show with fashion’s favorite it-girl, from the suede jackets down to the dreamy ballet flats.
RIOT GRRRL
“We’re Trauma Bonding”: Kathleen Hanna, In Conversation With Brontez Purnell
May 14, 2024
Before publishing her memoir “Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk,” the Bikini Kill singer looked back at her place in the Riot Grrrl movement with fellow punk rocker Brontez Purnell.
OPENING
Lucky DeBellevue Paints the Sexy, Tortured Worlds of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
May 13, 2024
“I didn’t want to shy away from sexuality,” says the downtown painter, who painted stills from a number of the German director’s films for his new solo exhibition.
STUDIO SESH
“Music Is an Act of Service”: Willow Smith, In Conversation With St. Vincent
May 13, 2024
After dropping their respective albums, the musicians linked to discuss self-love, self-producing, and why you don’t have to earn money from your art to truly be an artist.
OFF MENU
“Flick That Bean”: One Night in Times Square With Blizzy Mcguire
May 10, 2024
Ten days before bottom surgery, the professional Twitter troll joined us at The Edition to talk gooners, furries, New York gays, and life as a Long Island Italian legend.
PANEL
For Artist Diedrick Brackens, Weaving Is An Act of Religion
May 10, 2024
“Ritual in some sense is about repetition, and repetition is a holy act,” says the 35-year old artist about what drives his textile practice.
CLICK
“You Ghosted Andy Warhol”: Magdalena Wosinska, in Conversation With Christopher Makos
May 10, 2024
The two photographers got on Zoom to talk about celebrity egos, making it in Tinseltown, and Wosinska’s new book “Fulfill the Dream,” a document of the 90s skate scene.
BDSM
Joanna Arnow Tells Sean Baker How to Direct a Movie While Getting Spanked
May 10, 2024
The director of “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” got on Zoom with fellow filmmaker Sean Baker to talk Letterbox’d, BDSM, and working with her parents.
VROOM VROOM
Francesco Ragazzi of Palm Angels Is Putting the Fashion in Formula 1
May 9, 2024
Last weekend, Palm Angels invited Interview to the Miami Grand Prix, where the Milanese streetwear label dressed drivers on the Moneygram Haas Team.
OPENING
Artist Nikita Gale Is Watching You From the Nosebleeds
May 9, 2024
The LA-based artist’s new exhibition at Petzel Gallery imagines a stadium’s nosebleed seats as “not just a position and a space, but a theoretical, philosophical position.”
search history
Harry Jowsey of Too Hot to Handle Wants You to Know He’s 6′5″
May 9, 2024
In this week’s Search History, the “OnlyFans” hottie and star of “Too Hot To Handle” sends us his Tinder bio and reveals the famous couple he wants to have a threesome with.
SMOKE BREAK
“Explore Page Realness”: A Nine-Minute Cig With Artist Kiernan Francis
May 9, 2024
For our inaugural installation of Smoke Break, we caught up with artist and filmmaker Kiernan Francis at his raucous LES opening.