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My Dimes Square Think Piece January 20, 2025
Dimes Square (the revival) is introduced as a period piece, both at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research and in the preliminary murmurs I hear about the return of this play. It's an absurd concept at face value. The play was written and first per...
The Sordid Scene January 14, 2025
A thirty-something indie rocker gallantly holds the hair back for his much younger girlfriend as she rails a line of coke off the coffee table in the opening moments of Matthew Gasda’s gleeful, scathing play Dimes Square. The pair flirt, bicker, talk...
Get in the Crystal November 11, 2024
“Are you on the list? We’re at capacity.” I wasn’t. The election night party at Sovereign House, a new-right event space in downtown Manhattan, was co-sponsored by Polymarket, the Thiel-backed online betting market, and Remilia Corporation, a crypto ...
Emailing With Matthew Davis November 08, 2024
Matthew Davis released his debut novel Let Me Try Again in August. Formerly a computer scientist for the multinational hedge firm Citadel, he has become a fixture of the New York alt-lit scene. He introduced himself to me via Instagram DM, a networki...
Crushing White Claws With MAGA Hipsters on Election Night November 07, 2024
As I arrived at New York’s biggest cryptocurrency and art-adjacent edgelord election watch party, a young man in a shaggy blonde wig and suit was pulled past a spread of cold McDonalds to deliver a mediocre Trump impersonation before a set of flash-o...
Rebels With a Religious Cause June 25, 2024
Salomé slides her svelte figure through a cracked-open double door near the front of the dark sanctuary.Click clack. It’s the first moment of the vigil of Easter at Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Manhattan’s East Village. Worshippers at this his...
Her First Book May 06, 2024
What is a voice of a generation?” Honor Levy asks me at Corner Bar on Canal Street. “Is it the most controversial voice? The first person to write in the way that everybody writes? The person that most people hate or love?”She’s not quite sure she qu...
