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What Boxing Taught Me About Love
I was 32 and living in Washington Heights the year I should have fallen in love. Something else happened instead: A man tried to rape me on my way home from work. It was mid-October, and I was walking in a park near the George Washington Bridge. I...
Watercooler Pick: Squid Game
This deadly-survival-game series is so popular that SK Broadband sued Netflix shortly after it debuted, claiming the show led to such a surge in traffic that the streamer should pay network usage fees. So what gives? For starters, maybe we’re all s...
Watercooler Pick: Gossip Girl
Set eight years after the original Gossip Girl ended, this sequel series is set at the same private high school in Manhattan, where a pair of estranged half-sisters try to forge a friendship amidst the pressures of their social-media-driven milieu.
How to Make Drums Quieter for Practice, According to the...
Let’s say that you—like a significant, nonzero percentage of adults—impulsively bought yourself a drum kit during the pandemic, hoping to hone your chops or learn a new instrument. But let’s say you also just saw the Oscar-winning film Sound ...
Beat Boxing: How Hip-Hop Changed the Fight Game
It’s often the case that fight fans are hip-hop fans, and vice versa. Todd Snyder is no exception. Growing up in a small coal mining town in Appalachia, he first encountered the two pursuits during his formative years and was hooked. Snyder, who...
Watercooler pick: RRR
One elaborately choreographed fight scene – a showdown between the two main protagonists — involves gunfire, fireworks, plain old actual flames, and arcing sprays of water, all deployed during a massive crowd-fight scene involving real horses alo...