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Tom Scocca and Maria Bustillos on the latest media flimflam; advice for travelers from Trevor Alixopulos| Flaming Hydra
Tony Hawk’s office parties, dazzlingly photographed by Tod Seelie; Efe Paul Azino and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún discuss a NYC festival debut| Flaming Hydra
Efe Paul Azino is the Director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival, now in its tenth year. He is a spoken-word poet and writer. He is also the founder of a new literature festival based in New York City. In this conversation, we discuss the new New York Black and| Flaming Hydra
Normally, photographers are not allowed to share private events that we photograph for celebrity clients—weddings, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, engagement parties, etc. But in the case of Tony Hawk’s holiday office parties, that veil has been lifted. Thanks to some recent publicity on these events, I’| Flaming Hydra
A visit to the Getty Villa with Diana Moskovitz, and a rollicking podcast recap of Alien: Earth| Flaming Hydra
On a perfect L.A. day recently—warm but not hot, barely a cloud in the cobalt blue sky, cool breeze rolling in off the Pacific Ocean, the kind of day that makes you understand why Whitey Bulger hid out in Santa Monica—I made my way across| Flaming Hydra
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Joe MacLeod and Maria Bustillos ponder politics, alien biology, rebellion, slavery, and the third weirdly absorbing episode of Alien: Earth in this the second installment of our recapapalooza. Joe pressed the REC button and also he talked. A lot. We had fun, please join us. (SPOILERS galore, though). Listen| Flaming Hydra
Zito Madu considers the career of Manchester City striker Erling Haaland| Flaming Hydra
The manager of Tottenham Hotspur might have changed, and the club may have lost out on some high-profile transfers to their rivals, but at least Thomas Frank and his Spurs have continued the tradition of being Manchester City’s bogey team. Spurs have beaten City eight times out of| Flaming Hydra
Diana Moskovitz and Maria Bustillos pod with guests on the summer’s fantasy musical sensation| Flaming Hydra
Maria Bustillos, Carmen Johns, and Diana Moskovitz geek out on KPop Demon Hunters (and the soundtrack). Joe MacLeod pressed the REC button. KPop Demon Hunters fans Diana Moskovitz and Maria Bustillos join cartoonist Carmen Johns to discuss the summer’s Netflix blockbuster. Related: Don’t miss| Flaming Hydra
Tasty new fiction from Nathan Munn| Flaming Hydra
Extracting Value: One Startup’s Quest to Monetize Your Biology Jules Stringham, New York I’m looking around the fashionably cluttered apartment of Akari Kato while she cooks, admiring the floor-to-ceiling shelves brimming with books on biochemistry, brining, oenology, mycology, and natural medicine; collections of kimono silks and| Flaming Hydra
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Tom Scocca and Maria Bustillos on the latest media flimflam; advice for travelers from Trevor Alixopulos| Flaming Hydra
The future wasn’t just foreseeable but foreseen; some selected and presently relevant excerpts from Richard Hofstadter’s 1965 essay on The Paranoid Style in American Politics as “time is forever running out.” There is a style of mind, not always right-wing in its affiliations… I call it the paranoid| Flaming Hydra
On Thursday, July 17, 2025, my friend Hussain Ahmed sent me a Daily Mail article written by Sonya Gugliara headlined, “Straight white author’s career finally takes off after he tells woke publishers he’s gender queer Nigerian.” The piece describes the exploits of literary hoaxer Aaron Barry, a Vancouver-based| Flaming Hydra
Since it is impossible in my experience to condense a life or the love that one has for that life into literature, I would like to refuse the chance at attempting the impossible or the desire to make a life mean something beyond the fact and miracle of its own| Flaming Hydra
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Parker Molloy is the author of The Present Age, a newsletter about the intersection of media, politics, and culture.| Flaming Hydra
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Sludge produces investigative journalism on money in politics. A two-person, reader-supported newsroom—help us follow the money:| Flaming Hydra
When I finished undergrad in 2021, I quickly discovered that “rent eats first,” as housing costs gobbled up half of my $4,500 income from a summer internship at the Museum of Fine Arts. Later I found a full-time job working for the Massachusetts state government, where I made twice| Flaming Hydra
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