SMOKE BREAK
“I’m Just Ready to Fucking Dance”: Kicking Off the Mayhem Era With Nick Gaga
February 25, 2025
Over a pack of Capri Blues, we talked wigs, cigs, and “Mayhem” with Nick Gaga, the world’s premiere Mother Monster impersonator.
IN CONVERSATION
Obsessed With Awards Season? Then Daniel D’Addario’s The Talent Is For You.
February 25, 2025
The author and Chief Correspondent at Variety joined Katie Kitamura to talk about his debut novel, “The Talent,” and the dark underbelly of a Hollywood awards season.
BACKSTAGE
“The Laughter Is a Trojan Horse”: Behind the Scenes of English With Tala Ashe
February 25, 2025
At the Todd Haimes Theater, the Iranian-American actor joined us to talk about bringing Sanaz Toossi’s play to Broadway in today’s charged political climate.
RORSCHACH TEST
“That’s a Red Flag for Me”: Owen Thiele on Screen Time, Self-Tapes, and Cybertrucks
February 24, 2025
The actor and host of the “In Your Dreams” podcast lets it all out.
DESIGNER
How Todd Oldham Built a Fashion Empire With 50 Bucks and a Bolt of Fabric
February 21, 2025
“You know when you can do something but you don’t understand why you can do it?” said the American designer when he joined us for a look back at his career. “That was my thing with patterns.”
VISION
“What Are You Crying About?”: Quenlin Blackwell, by Rachel Sennott
February 20, 2025
The content creator talks to her future costar about Capricorn energy, past life regression, and the business of being funny.
XXX
“What a Ride I’ve Had”: Peter Berlin on Sadness, Immortality, and Good Sex
February 19, 2025
“I’m constantly entertained by my thoughts,” the legendary 82-year-old artist tells writer Brontez Purnell. “Usually, I find myself more interesting than the people I’m dealing with.”
ICON
Inside Goodbye Horses, the First Documentary About the Mysterious Q Lazzarus
February 18, 2025
Filmmaker Eva Aridjis Fuentes joined us to talk about her serendipitous friendship with the most elusive of rock icons, the late Q Lazzarus.
IN CONVERSATION
Haley Mlotek and Jia Tolentino on Gossip, Longing, and Literary Love Stories
February 18, 2025
What is romance? “All forms of longing,” the author of “No Fault” tells her friend and fellow writer Jia Tolentino. “And definitely a healthy amount of uncertainty or nervousness or hesitation.”
BLOB
Kenny Scharf on Trash, Artificial Intelligence, and the Golden Days of New York
February 18, 2025
“I dislike it intensely,” the 66-year-old says of A.I. art. “I can tell it’s devoid of anything as far as the soul goes.”
THEORY
Author Sophie Lewis Wants You to Be a Better Feminist
February 17, 2025
“Kamala, Hillary and others offer no critique of markets and the economic dependence of heteronormative women,” argues the author and theorist, who joined us to discuss her latest book, “Enemy Feminisms.”
COVER
Benny and Selena Against the World
February 14, 2025
As they get set to release their new album “I Said I Love You First,” Hollywood’s preeminent power couple take Mel Ottenberg inside their whirlwind romance.
DIRTY
“The Men Were His Life”: Inside the Sordid World of Photographer David Hurles
February 13, 2025
To mark the first large-scale exhibition of the photographer’s work, our editor-in-chief called up curator Dian Hanson to talk about the well-endowed men that made David Hurles tick.
XXX
Photographer Del LaGrace Volcano on Cruising, Community, and the Dyke-Fag Alliance
February 13, 2025
“My role as a photographer or as an artist is to be a creator of spaces where people feel safe enough to give me what they’ve got,” says Volcano, whose 1988 monograph, “Queer Dyke Cruising,” has been reissued with Climax Books.
ART
Get a Load of Jamian Juliano-Villani, the Chaos Agent of the New York Art World
February 12, 2025
Last December, the larger-than-life artist and her friend Borna Sammak spent the night in her Flatiron studio, drawing, rolling joints, and talking the night away.
SHARE LOCATION
“The Bachelor’s Gay!”: In Bed With Lovebirds Gabby Windey and Robby Hoffman
February 12, 2025
To mark their first Valentine’s Day as a couple, the Brooklyn comedian and the “Traitors” star took us on a tour of the L.A. haunts where they fell madly in love.
DANCE
“There’s Some Bloody Stuff There”: Behind the Scenes of Florentina Holzinger’s Body Horror Ballet
February 11, 2025
“Of course the patriarchy is going to complain and suffer from a show like this,” says the Austrian choreographer, whose show “TANZ” premieres in New York this weekend. “But for us it’s like, then we’re doing something right.”
N.Y.C.
Do You Want to Be Famous?
February 11, 2025
The next gen of downtown performers make their red carpet debut.
WOW
Meet Wesley Glouchkov, TikTok’s Most Devoted Fitfluencer
February 10, 2025
The devout Texas boy tells Chris Black how his love of lifting and clean eating fueled his booming personal training business and an unexpected rise as a fitfluencer.
ACTORS
“We Are Our Own Piano”: Fernanda Torres, in Conversation With Jessica Chastain
February 10, 2025
Just after she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Fernanda Torres joined Jessica Chastain to discuss how they’ve navigated the entertainment industry and what they’ve learned from the women they’ve portrayed on film.