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This week, find out why we’re walking around the office repeating the phrase ‘Cross-festooned Chrome Hearts birdcage’ to ourselves. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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It’s Friday, there are only 26 days left in the year, and we’re going to make it to the end of Q4, people—with equanimity, gratitude, and maybe even a little grace.
In this, we can take a note or two from singer, songwriter, and true American legend Willie Nelson, who, at age 92, while lamping in Maui waiting for family members to show up for Thanksgiving, took thirty minutes to talk to Grayson Haver Currin about writing with Bob Dylan, normalizing weed, and remaining grateful—for his ability to sing, and for literally everything else. Strongly suggest you click through for the photos of Willie going full hypebeast in a jacket from GQ Designer of the Year Haider Ackermann’s latest collection for Snow Goose by Canada Goose—paired with the bandana, as if that needs to be said.
Meanwhile: Mia Khalifa ranked her top ten films of the year for us and in doing so became, to our knowledge, the first film critic to compare Jacobi Jupe to a young Deion Sanders. The first-season finale of The Chair Company broke our brains. We ranked all the different lengths a movie can be and chose the best one. We talked to 50 Cent about why he produced a Netflix docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs, who we’re beginning to suspect might not be a great guy. Chef and writer Eddie Huang shouted out some iconic “dirtbag LA” locations that figure into his funny and raw first novel Come Undone. Southern Charm star Craig Conover talked to Chris Black about restaurants you can golf-cart to in Charleston and what really goes on behind the scenes at BravoCon. And Death By Lightning creator Mike Makowsky talked about why his tragicomic TV miniseries about the assassination of James Garfield (d. 1881) by the grifter Charles Guiteau feels so weirdly topical.
Plus We itemized the craziest Chrome Hearts pieces (“Cross-Festooned Wooden Birdcage” FTW) in Jesse Jo Stark’s new Lil Yachty-assisted video. We unpacked West Coast rappers’ rapper Jay Worthy’s voluminous personal lore (he’s the Kevin Bacon-like figure that Grimes, Sarah McLachlan and “Freeway” Ricky Ross have in common, among other things) and marvelled at Billy Crudup giving a master class in acting while playing an actor giving a master class in acting. We talked to TikTok sensation Nathanial Young about blowing sax in liminal spaces. And now we’re going to go finish (okay, fine, we’re going to start) our holiday shopping. Spoiler: Everybody’s gettin’ Chrome Hearts birdcages. See you back here in this window next week. —AP |
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