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How Eric Adams Started Mentoring a Con Man | The New Yorker
How Eric Adams Started Mentoring a Con Man
The mayor’s friends and allies have puzzled over his relationship with Lamor Whitehead, a fraudster Brooklyn church leader.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-eric-adams-started-mentoring-a-con-man
Bruan, who was already negotiating Abdullah’s surrender with the N.Y.P.D., believes that Whitehead’s intrusion alarmed the authorities, prompting officers to pounce on Abdullah, guns drawn, outside a Legal Aid office downtown, where he had gone to meet with Bruan before surrendering. After Abdullah was taken away, Whitehead got into an argument with Bruan. “Stay away from my client,” she told him, to which Whitehead had responded, “What did you say, you dumb bitch?”
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‘A Wild Card’: Son of Uganda’s President Jostles to Succeed His Father – The New York Times
‘A Wild Card’: Son of Uganda’s President Jostles to Succeed His Father
Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been positioning himself as Uganda’s next leader. But his provocative tweets have unnerved Ugandans and put his father in a bind.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/world/africa/uganda-president-son-muhoozi.html
He has boasted that he could capture the capital of neighboring Kenya in two weeks. He has offered a dowry of 100 cows to marry Italy’s new female prime minister. And he has claimed that the majority of “non-white” people around the world supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The Enduring Metal Genius of Metallica | The New Yorker
The Enduring Metal Genius of Metallica
On the road with the band in its forty-first year.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/the-enduring-metal-genius-of-metallica
For Metallica, the idea was never to seduce an audience, but to push it away. The fans who stuck around—who perhaps understood this as a kind of love—became devoted, and received devotion in return.
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The Wildest Art Stories of 2022
The Wildest Art Stories of 2022
The unbelievable, hilarious, or just plain mind-boggling things that happened in the world of art in 2022.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/790214/wildest-art-stories-of-2022/
Many moons ago (May 2022), back when tomato soup was but a comforting and inexpensive supper option and museums did not have to de-attach climate activists from their art historical masterpieces, there was this man who disguised himself as an elderly woman, entered the Louvre in a wheelchair, and smeared cake on the Mona Lisa. “Think of the planet,” he wailed, before museum security wheeled him away from the glass-protected paintings.
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Orion Magazine – A Failed Hunt for Meaning in Wartime Ukraine
Orion Magazine – A Failed Hunt for Meaning in Wartime Ukraine
IN CHIȘINĂU, MOLDOVA, ON THE CRACKED asphalt of the wide but empty central street, a wrinkled old man sold a hammer, a rusty screwdriver, two Soviet
via Orion Magazine: https://orionmagazine.org/article/ukraine-invasion-meaning-in-war/
N CHIȘINĂU, MOLDOVA, ON THE CRACKED asphalt of the wide but empty central street, a wrinkled old man sold a hammer, a rusty screwdriver, two Soviet history textbooks, an old VHS tape, and a bunch of rainbow-colored rubber balls in a crinkled plastic bag. The objects, arranged at an even distance on a red tablecloth, looked like Inquisition torture tools, surgical instruments, or an exhibit of communist artifacts.
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How the Artist Kehinde Wiley Went from Picturing Power to Building It | The New Yorker
How the Artist Kehinde Wiley Went from Picturing Power to Building It
His portrait of Obama sparked a nationwide pilgrimage. Now he’s establishing an arts empire of his own.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/02/how-the-artist-kehinde-wiley-went-from-picturing-power-to-building-it
The paintings begin life in Photoshop. Wiley sends initial shots of models to a graphic designer, along with decorative motifs and detailed instructions for creating a backdrop. After the mockup earns his approval, assistants trace it onto the canvas, then begin their painstaking work on the fashion, the flora, and the filigree. Individuals focus on particular works, but also serve as floating detail specialists. The bird painter was brought on for her knowledge of Japanese landscape painting; the clothing expert, who has worked at the studio for seventeen years, doubles as a quality-control inspector, insuring that every Wiley looks like a Wiley. The process has become intuitive, she told me: “I’m his hand, almost like a human printer.”
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She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk. – The New York Times
She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk.
Sasha Solomon, a software engineer, joined others in the media business who lost their jobs this year after publicly taking on their employers.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/style/twitter-elon-musk-sasha-solomon.html
On Nov. 10, during a week of frequent meetings on changes at the company, Ms. Solomon tweeted: “we will be scheduling multiple all-hands every day until morale improves.”
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Volodymyr Zelensky’s Critical Visit to Washington, D.C. | The New Yorker
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Critical Visit to Washington, D.C.
The Ukrainian President’s trajectory is often cast as surprising, but what makes him compelling as a political leader is the former comic’s talent for exposing the crux of the matter.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/volodymyr-zelenskys-critical-visit-to-washington-dc
What had made everyone laugh was that the Presidents’ initial responses—and, indeed, the reporter’s question itself—had been obscene: they exposed what is usually hidden. The United States and its allies have not done enough to stop the war in Ukraine. They could, but they have not, and so for ten months Russian troops have tortured and executed Ukrainians, erased entire towns from the face of the earth, and targeted civilian infrastructure in order to deprive civilians of heat, light, and running water in winter.
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My Year of Reddit and Relaxation | The New Yorker
My Year of Reddit and Relaxation
I misjudged the Web site, which can be a pleasing oasis of text-based communication.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2022-in-review/my-year-of-reddit-and-relaxation
On a bleak day, the signs are everywhere. Books are chiefly useful insofar as they generate source material for podcasts or streaming shows. Those streaming shows are most successful when they generate gifs and memes for social media.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Argentina’s World Cup Victory | The New Yorker
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Argentina’s World Cup Victory
Suffering is an essential part of the story that we Argentines tell about ourselves.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-argentinas-world-cup-victory
My family is Argentinean. We screamed so hard in our Harlem apartment that later we found our tortoise upside down in her cage