
If Social Media Dies, I May Have to Blame Myself for Things Completely in My Control
By Erin Gruodis-Gimbel
It is the fear of burnt focaccia, the memories of ninth-grade math class, and the draft of a vulnerable essay that can be charitably referred to as drivel that keep me on Twitter.

American Apparel Savior Complex
By Grayce Toon
American Apparel was everything I wanted to be, and everything I was so far from.

I Am Such A Carrie
By Sarah Gallegos
As I finished rewatching the series, I couldn’t help but wonder if I would one day miss this version of myself—33, tenacious, imperfect, vulnerable.
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Studio Diaries
By Tasneem Sarkez
Even if you’re not making anything in the studio, you’re still being productive.
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Down & Out on a Thursday
By Dillon Cranston
I see I’m not the only one at this diner who brought a notepad and pen.
His drawings are better but I have made the better order.
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British Home Cooking at Lord’s in Greenwich Village
By Stasia de Tilly
The menu takes the mundanity and pleasure of comfort food and elevates it for the intrigued masses.

In 10 Years’ Time
By the Music Team
It’s one thing to line up the best albums of a given year, but to name the most “formative” is something more personal and elusive.

It Isn’t True Until It Ends
By Davis Dunham
Chaos and peace can coexist when there’s no end in sight, but the pressure to rush off to one makes the two enemies.

Damien Chazelle Is in His Reputation Era
By Brooke Metayer
“Oh, I’m sorry, the old Damien can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, ‘cause he’s dead.”

What Do 2022’s Hardest Working Bands Have in Common?
By Raynee Hamilton
Touring the eclectic indie artists at Baby’s All Right: “These bands don’t seem to care!”

As Told By
By Lizzie Racklin
A new collaborative project. A place for memories of music live.

The Art of Intangible Optimism
By Raynee Hamilton
Laila Sakini’s new album Paloma is a minimalist meditation on hope for the sake of itself.

Silence of the Dogs
By Davis Dunham
By the time I get home from work, the concept of even thinking in words exhausts me.

My Year of Mirrors
By Taylor Stout
By writing through my year, I don’t feel that I’ve drained my days of anything. I’ve created something new alongside them.

Spotify Wrapped: Expectation vs. Reality
By The Music Team
You’ve got to have an idea of what you’ve listened to most this year, right?

COPY’s Favorites of 2022: Music
By The Copy Team

COPY’s Favorites of 2022: Film & TV
By The Copy Team

COPY’s Favorites of 2022: Literature
By The Copy Team

Death in Our Hands
By Natalie Duerr
Making sense of death isn’t a burden that anyone carries alone. Discussing it might actually make it feel more bearable.

What We’re Listening To: Songs That Could Convince Us To Join a Cult
By The Music Team
In the music world, devotion takes many forms.

Give a Dog a Bone
By Margaret Davenport
At the risk of being foolishly optimistic, I am adding social media to my list of spiritual practices.
I Know All My Friends’ Secrets
By Margaret Davenport
I want my platonic love to matter in the way that romantic love does.

Let’s Make a Playlist Together
By The Music Team
With the world of music at your fingertips, the possibilities can be overwhelming.

shame, Viagra Boys, and Kills Birds at Brooklyn Steel
By Layla Passman
Shame has managed to bring together those who are full of it, and those who don’t realize they have “it” at all.

Our Thoughts On: AFI’s Top 100
By The Film Team
The “Great” Films We’re For And Against

What We’re Watching: Emotionally Numbing Television
By The Film Team
TV for when we’re tired of feeling our feelings.

With Great Power Comes Goth Responsibility
By Elias Kotsis
Photos by Melissa McLaughlin
A Stone Pony show review and interview with Little Hag

What We’re Listening To: On the way home from the party
By The Music Team
It’s a time to relax, wind down, and overthink every conversation you had that night. Here’s what we listen to after a night out, on our ways home.

Love in the Time of COVID-19
By Diane Roman
Divorce and dating during COVID-19 after a 30-year marriage ends over Zoom.

If Loving This Is Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be Right
By The Music Team
Maybe they’re “tacky” or “melodramatic” or simply “terrible,” but we don’t care. these songs make us feel. What’s “good” anyways?

Don't Ever Go Somewhere You Can't Leave
By Layla Passman
Over my party-going tenure, I have developed one cardinal rule: never go somewhere you can’t leave.

Your Biggest Fan
By Lily Crandall
On being young and old and loving Voxtrot.

Studio Diaries
By Isabelle Perkins
On progress, strife, and my biggest painting to date.

The Sense of Movement Keeps Us Alive
By Taylor Stout
Saying goodbye to Brooklyn venue Wild Birds

The Unlikeable Fuckups of Edy Modica
By Lizzie Racklin
Nicole shows the frustration and bitterness that can come out of being left on the margins.

“2 Years” Music Video
By Brooke Metayer
Alex Bush and Mia Pak on collaboration, the catharsis of music videos, and invisible strings.

Studio Diaries: A Summer in Saint-Raphael
By Julie Kim
Searching in small spaces, lingual attachments, and lots of phthalo.

Translating The Yellow Wallpaper to Modern-Day Horror
By Natalie Duerr
J. Kiernan O’Brien treads familiar territory—but a notably different landscape—in her adaptation.

Stopping Time with Hiroshi Yoshimura
By Miguel de Laveaga
What does it mean to let time slip away? How do I unlearn all the ways that this feels so wrong?

Found in Translation
by Erin Kang
We trusted in music too much. We would not have it any other way.

Favorite Needle Drops in Road Trip Movies
by The Music Team
When your seat at the theater transports you to that journey across the country and everything else stops. Hands tight on the steering wheel, hair flying out the window, or just loitering in a motel parking lot. Here are the scenes and tracks that take us there.

Beer, Berries, & La Boyère
By Ava McCoy
My summer spent in five countries and the songs that guided me through it.

Life is Short: The Micro Miniskirt in the Age of Irony
by Sarah Norcross Hough
It’s a culture confused about its message and shocked by its message’s reception.

I Will Be a Memory
by Lizzie Racklin
I often feel a dissonance between who I am and who I was. Isn’t it frustrating To not relate to yourself?

The Expansive Land-Locked Room
by Catherine Spino
Chatting with frontman Ian McNally of Moon Hound on the duality of New York and thrashing in a different way.

On the First Sweaty Night of July,
Momma became Rockstars of the New Age
by Layla Passman
Momma tugs at the desire to be known in a space that is becoming increasingly unknowable.

Reach Out Your Hand and I Promise to Take It
by Anna-Lena Dressman
My body felt like a traitor, as if it had suddenly, unbeknownst to me, exposed some insidious truth within.

On Dancing Through a Pandemic
by Naava Guaraca
We punctuate every word with the landings of our feet. It feels like an exhalation, like the outpouring of a sigh we’ve been holding in for these past three years.

Music for Time Travel
by The Music Team
We may not have actual time travel figured out (yet), but put on the right song and you can feel suddenly transported—to freshman year, to childhood, to a different generation.

The Next Hit Jukebox Musical
by Brooke Metayer
From the writers room that is my humble living room, I bring you my pitches for the next smash-hit jukebox musical.

Right Name, Wrong Girl
by Margaret Davenport
In a shocking turn of events, I will not be the Margaret marrying Jack Antonoff.

How to Capitalize on Being Sad
by Josie Brandmeier
On being sad, watching yourself be sad, and making a shit ton of money off of it.

What We’re Listening To: Music for Spiraling
by The Music Team
Here’s what we listen to calm our worries and drop a roadblock mid-spiral. Or, just something that puts to music how we feels inisde and fuels our unrest.

Stories of Stories
by Margaret Davenport
I am made up of scribbled notes and dream journals and all the little things I am scared I’ll lose.

Of Hollywod and Men
by Natalie Duerr
Another film examines the horrors of being a woman, yet Hollywood is as unaware as ever.

I Found god at the Ethel Cain show
by Layla Passman
Review of the breakout goth rock star’s record release show at Market Hotel.

Our Thoughts On: The 10-Year Anniversary of Frank Ocean’s channel ORANGE
by The Music Team
Frank Ocean’s debut studio album has the power to change you.

Oh, Are You Going to Any Festivals This Summer?
by Julia Vassallo
I have a desire to see a paradigm shift in the way festivals are run, sometimes the easiest way to learn is through the examination of failure.

Twilight: A First Read
by Elias Kotsis
I’d be lying if I said I haven’t always been curious (Twi-curious, if you will).

Film Review: Petit Maman
by Harish Krishnamoorthy
Céline Sciamma’s latest film feels like a palliative—a short, cozy breath of French air.

Our Thoughts On: Peeing During A Movie
by The Film Team
Do you??!?!

Thoughts on Balletcore
by Mickey Galvin
Does this recent trend defy or reinforce ballet’s complicated history?

Summer 2016 Energy
by The Music Team
What is it? Is it back? Why?!

Fritz Kühn, Ospace, and 393 Broadway
by Julia Vassallo
“The goal is to give people an alternative to the gallery world and the nightlife world.”

Theater We’re Excited For
by Mickey Galvin & Sterling Gates
The theater is back, and we are oh so ready. Here is a look into what we are looking forward to seeing this year, and how we see it for CHEAP.

The Armpit of America
by Margaret Davenport
Shifting the Zeitgeist: Battle Mountain, Gene Weingarten, and Americana.

Emerson Rosenthal Has A Lot of Ideas
by Lizzie Racklin
It makes sense that the mind that has generated more than 2,500 ideas in the last four years loves movies that are actually “a hundred different movies in one.”

What We’re Watching: In Flight
by The Film Team
Pick something you would never watch normally, because in-flight entertainment is an experience of its own.

Music For Portable Speakers
by The Music Team
The city’s getting warmer. Gather your friends and head to the park.

Writing This is My Version of Fangirling:
On Sarah Ramos & Autograph Hound
by Sammy Bluth
A recent exhibit by Sarah Ramos explores the vital connection between fame and fandom.

Sofia Coppola: Forever Young Review
by Natalie Duerr
Author Hannah Strong imbues personal experience into a critical survey of a filmmaker known to do the same.

Reviewing Media I’ve Found on The Streets of BK
by Taylor Stout
Go outside with open eyes and an open mind, and the streets seem to speak to you.

Private Time, Public Transport: Reading, Writing, and Lauren Elkin’s No.91/92
by Jack Petersen
A mechanical flaneur, the bus provides a windowed eye for the contained organism of the city. Original art by Mahaut Marin-Price.

Studio Diary: Regina Sinnott
By Regina Sinnott
Regina takes us through her painting process as she begins and meddles with a new piece.

A Fairytale Breakup
by Brooke Metayer
If you’re gonna get dumped, you might as well make it interesting.

Our Phantom Tails and the Liberating Meadows of Spring
By Julie Kim
On Elizabth Glaessner’s recent solo show and the changing of the seasons.

Saying Goodbye to Night Falls Over Kortedala
By Lily Crandall
Reflecting on the “Retirement” of Jens Lekman’s 2007 Album