Jeff Ihaza

In a video circulating online, a white woman at a production of Slave Play has a certifiable meltdown. Jeremy O. Harris’ bombshell work, which centers on interracial couples in an experimental form of counseling that involves antebellum role-play,…

Tom Dixon is known for making home goods that captivate your attention carefully. The self-taught designer's signature brand is an emporium of sensation. Candles that tingle but never burden, lights that dazzle only when they need to, furniture that…

Lil Nas X is a fitting avatar for the shifts in pop culture that have taken place over the past decade. The 20-year-old musician's ascent to viral stardom occurred with the efficiency of a tech startup. His single "Old Town Road" first crept, and…

For a certain stratum of millennials, Disney Channel's original movies represent the peak of American cinema. Titles like Brink, about a group of young rollerbladers faced with the dilemma of "selling out" are stories that resonate to this day.…

In Barbarians at the Gate, the 1993 HBO film based on the best-selling book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, the victims of capitalism’s more visceral excesses are gestured to but never represented. The film follows the leveraged buyout of RJR…

The internet is obsessed with the Succession theme song. There are memes setting the Nicholas Britell-written score to everything from Kermit the Frog dancing to scenes from Billy Madison. The consensus online being that, yes, the Succession theme…

The prominent Democratic donor and political activist Ed Buck was arrested in Los Angeles on Tuesday in connection with the overdose of an unidentified man last week. Buck, who was the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit in 2017 after a man died…

Rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie released the single "Mood Swings" from his upcoming album, Artist 2.0, last week. The track, produced by Atlanta producer Wheezy, is a sparse but rousing display of the Bronx-born MC's versatility. Much of the song is…

Like a certain Instagram influencer making the rounds this week, I too am a proponent of radical vulnerability. I once subjected every one of my Instagram followers to an unhinged series of stories posts about how the characters on the Netflix show…

It's hard to imagine not having come into contact with Yaeji's music in the past two years. Her single "Raingurl" quickly became ubiquitous on streaming playlists, and her performances at festivals and clubs around the world would eventually…

In the first season of HBO's one-percent drama Succession, a potentially explosive controversy quietly threatens the Waystar Royco empire. It is by now a familiar story. The company's cruise ship division had apparently spent years covering up…

More details have emerged surrounding the release of A$AP Rocky from Swedish custody earlier this month. The rapper, who was arrested in July after a street fight in Stockholm was captured on video, spent nearly a month in jail, spawning countless…