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Jay-Z and Marina Abramovic
Are a Hustler, Baby

“There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you’re getting in,” Pace rep told my editor. She’s been getting calls about Jay-Z all day. “It’s a closed set.” Jay-Z was shooting a Mark Romanek-directed music video inside a gallery in Chelsea, lip-syncing and dancing with half the New York art world as cameos. When Tweets alleging “Jay-Z is doing performance […]

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An LES Vintage Boutique Got a Cease-and-Desist Letter From Jodeci, of All People

Osvaldo “OJ” Jimenez, aka SLUTLUST, is the co-owner of La Petite Mort, a Lower East Side lifestyle shop that sells, among other things, vintage rap t-shirts from the ‘80s and ‘90s. On June 3rd, OJ got a weird surprise in his email inbox: a cease-and-desist from the legal team of ’90s R&B group Jodeci, a […]

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Satanists Demand Religious Exemption From Anti-Abortion Counseling

The Satanic Temple organization is challenging Oklahoma’s state mandatory anti-abortion counseling law, using a Hobby Lobby-style religious exemption. Today, TST spokesperson Lucian Greaves argued that the Hobby Lobby decision demonstrates that the Supreme Court “has decided that religious beliefs are so sacrosanct that they can even trump scientific fact.” This was made clear when they allowed Hobby Lobby to claim certain […]

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Inside Prince Rama’s “Now Age”
Art Party Cult

“We’re going to do a lot of things the museum said we can’t do.” That we did. Last Saturday, Prince Rama held court at the Brooklyn Museum. It got spiritual. There was also glitter. The Brooklyn band’s life-philosphy/religion/budding cult the Now Age may not totally alleviate our post-2012 existential paranoia, but it does provide some […]

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