No!!
been working on this story for a (very) long time. there’s been a ton of change at sxsw, now owned out of california, over the past year. lot of people who left the company think it’s doomed. current staff insist it’s about to enter a renaissance. i tried to understand how they can both think that.
Corli Jay, The TRiiBE’s community investment reporter was terminated by TRiiBE leadership on March 9 alleging that she had broken nonexistent company ethics rules.
Let’s build a small cheval
My campaign begins now
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
These shows are coming up
“The government could end all of the suffering in our country… We could have health care and access to food, healthy foods, fresh food, we could have good doctors. We should be asking, ‘Why are we investing billions of dollars into another war across the seas?’”
I have a column at @thecut.com now where I’ll be writing about fatherhood, and I figured I’d kick it off by talking about how I decided to start taking Zepbound because I want to do everything possible to be able to annoy my daughter for at least another 50 years. www.thecut.com/article/figu...
I bet @robertloerzel.bsky.social has a recommendation…
Oooh comparable to Low Life! That is a tough one!
The Aadam Jacobs Collection giveth
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UNEARTHED: Texas Democrat admits to feeling LOVE, an emotion that is WOKE and GAY
That’s right
Attacks leave dead vs killed
Been thinking about Sirāt a lot since I saw it at the Music Box the other night, and man this score goes kangdingray.bandcamp.com/track/kathar...
A good reminder that an authoritarian in power to rage against doesn’t make great art, providing people with affordable living spaces does more to incubate cool weird fringe shit that’s internationally renowned decades later
i’m outside the ice jail in broadview, illinois, where community members and electeds are holding a press conference after six people, including three u.s. citizens, were abducted from o’hare airport and detained for more than 40 hours.
feds took the six people to wisconsin before repeating them.
The Sun-Times abandoned film criticism once Roeper left the paper last year, so it’s particularly sad that this is the form of film commentary they’ll run: Oscar predictions by the former columnist oriented towards betting
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Everyone should not have to have a direct line to elected officials in order to ensure that we are not kidnapped by the government.
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below
Anyway here’s a whole lotta stuff happening in Chicago’s music scenes in the next week or so, and also some rad new music you can buy on B*ndcamp today
I love to read about local music news
I wrote about Lost Legion, who aren’t playing a record release show but a gathering of likeminded punks eager to be more involved in community organizing around jail support and ICE observation
Huge news for me personally
