If you’ve ever been for a big night out in Vegas (is there any other kind?) then there’s an excellent chance you’ve experienced the work of Ryan Labbe and Jason ‘J-Roc’ Craig. Individually, Labbe and J-Roc were renowned kings of Vegas’s nightlife scene, curating experiences and spreading the word for […]
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Bill Heck on the Tender, Dusty Romance at the Heart of Buster Scruggs
Picture a cowboy. Some of you might see John Wayne, walking across a saloon like his legs are made of tin. Some of you might have conjured up Clint Eastwood, the tail end of a smoke clinging on to the corner of his lip, a dirty poncho draped around his […]
Actor John Hoogenakker on Being Yourself in Any Situation
It’s not always easy being an actor. John Hoogenakker has been directed by Michael Mann, Steven Soderbergh and Clint Eastwood, he steals scenes from John Krasinski in Amazon’s Jack Ryan series, but nothing will bring him to mind quicker than one nonsensical phrase: “Dilly dilly”. Yes, that’s Hoogenakker as the […]
Artist Gabriel Starobinski on His Art, Joy and Crying on the Dancefloor
Gabriel Starobinski is a visual artist from Basel, Switzerland who uses his canvases to explore the boundaries of gender, sexuality, and the spectrum between femininity and masculinity in his art. Starobinski’s work is vivid and arresting, neon-bright collages where the deeply personal and the universally socio-political sit side-by-side and speak […]
DJ Herobust on Making Music and Packing for the Unknown
We chatted with Hayden Jerome Kramer, better known by his stage name Herobust, who is an Atlanta, Georgia-based record producer and musician. Hiss hip-hop inspired bass music has been featured in Rolling Stone, Vice, and MTV and Insomniac credits him as “one of the hottest voices in the trap-dance movement.” […]
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Fantastic Negrito
Most of us have one story to tell. Xavier Dphrepaulezz has several, any one of which would be more than enough for the rest of us. Whatever he’s been through (crime, near-stardom, near-death), the word that keeps coming back is “survivor”. One of 15 children of a Somali-Caribbean immigrant, Dphrepaulezz […]