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“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.
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“I’m a Jersey Girl”: A Ten-Minute Cig With Playwright Vogue Giambri
February 4, 2025
“I’m just a chaotic, spontaneous person,” says the downtown playwright of “I Can’t Make Sense,” her latest blackbox production. “This play doesn’t give you a second to be one thing.”
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“I’m Still in My God Body”: A Backstage Joint With Niambi
January 22, 2025
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we lit up with hip-hop singer before talking spirituality, bodega weed, and her brand-new EP, “Taboo.”
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“I’ll Dabble in the Cold”: 15 Minutes in Aspen With Billie Lourd
December 31, 2024
“My Aspen style seems to be leopard coats and boots,” the actor told us between caviar bumps and champagne sword fights. “But my ears feel naked. I should have earmuffs.”
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“Everyone Who’s Beautiful Is a Little Ugly”: A Ten-Minute Cig With Jemima Kirke
October 21, 2024
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we talked to the actress about Donald Trump, music festivals, Republican aesthetics, and the resurgence of the word “cunt.”
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“It’s Like, Baby Doll”: Backstage With the Performance Artist Narcissister
September 20, 2024
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we caught up with the enigmatic artist following her first performance commission in 12 years at Pioneer Works.
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“I Feel Like a Mother”: A Quick Cig With Mowalola After Her SS25 Spectacle
September 17, 2024
“I really just wanted to show out,” said the designer over a post-show cigarette at her SS25 presentation in London. “I wanted to approach fashion in a new way.”
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“That’s So Cowgirl”: A Nine-Minute Cig With Artist Emma Stern
September 6, 2024
In this week’s Smoke Break, we smoke Marlboros and talk magic with the painter outside her new solo show, “The Rabbit Hole,” now on view at Half Gallery.
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“No Free Toes”: A Cigarette Break With Photographer Emilio Tamez
July 29, 2024
For this week’s Smoke Break, the photographer stepped outside with us at her downtown monograph launch to talk diamonds, couture, and chameleonic muses.
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“Everybody Is Drunk as Fuck”: A Quick Cig With Alex Consani at Her 21st Birthday
July 25, 2024
“Tonight I’m trying to give a little more slut,” said the supermodel, who joined us for a cigarette outside her 21st birthday party to talk turning legal and ditching her fake I.D.
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“I’m Pro Soft-Launch”: We Smoked a Joint with TikTok’s Little Sister Ashtin Earle
July 24, 2024
We waked and baked with the Jersey-born influencer, who told us how she’s spending her Montauk Summer and who she’s recruiting for her coven of it-girls.
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“We’re Not Having No Boyfriends”: A Six-Minute Cig With Bronx Rapper Baby Osama
July 17, 2024
In this week’s Smoke Break, we joined the 21-year-old rapper in the back of a Cadillac Escalade to find out why she got jumped outside the airport.
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“Gentrification Is Fucked Up”: We Got Stoned With Artist Derrick Adams
June 28, 2024
At the trailblazing artist’s studio, we enjoyed a five-course meal, each with a cannabis pairing, and talked gentrification, cartoons, and his latest sculpture, “The Holdout II.”
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We Chainsmoked With Fashion Icon Michèle Lamy at the Queendom Screening
June 27, 2024
In this edition of Smoke Break, we caught the fashion legend after a screening of “Queendom,” a new documentary by director Agniia Galdanova.
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Three Drags of a Cigarette with Yohji Yamamoto
June 26, 2024
“I feel like a lost man.”
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“It’s Fucking Mental”: A Seven-Minute Cig With Bree Runway
June 24, 2024
Outside the Jolene Sound Room in Williamsburg, the Ghanaian-British pop star talked to us about leaving her label and returning to music on her own terms.
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“I’m a Natural Exhibitionist”: A Quick Cig at Church With Writer Rayne Fisher-Quann
June 19, 2024
“We’re at church with our fans and we’re gossiping,” declared the literary it-girl at her sold-out Secrets reading last week. “It’s very Southern Baptist.”
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“I’m On Some Leo Shit”: A Seven-Minute Spliff with DJ and Party Girl Dylan Ali
June 3, 2024
In this week’s edition of Smoke Break, we tracked down the DJ and model after her set at Silencio to find out why alcohol is like a “love-bombing boyfriend.”
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“I Had an iPod on My Pussy”: An Eight-Minute Cig With Artist Jacolby Satterwhite
May 24, 2024
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we smoked American Spirits with the 3-D artist and provocateur outside of The Kitchen’s Spring 2024 Gala.
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“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.