One of the main reasons why many clothing items are no longer popular is their impracticality for the lifestyles of students, office workers, and the working class. Mainstream fashion is no longer dictated by the upper class, but by runway fashion (which borrows from subcultures and history), filtered through pop culture, before evolving downstream into an affordable, corner-cutting, milquetoast version through fast fashion. If a garment hinders work, taking public transport, driving, or carrying a bag, it will be relegated to the niche corners of fashion. Mainstream retailers do not want to stock underperforming designs, thereby limiting consumer choice. As much as I love a good cape from an aesthetic perspective, I am biased toward clothing with sleeves. My work involves manual labour and carrying heavy loads on my shoulders, so I would rather wear a large, drapey coat that mimics the flow of a cape.

Brittle Paper is making a horror anthology! We want short stories, poetry, and nonfiction that will make readers’ skin crawl. Submit by May 31 for one of 15 spots available to writers from the continent and diaspora 🕸️🕷️🌘 brittlepaper.com/2026/05/sub…

the way some people work/the politics in the art world make working in us politics a damn cakewalk.

CUNY in New York City and GSU in Atlanta

some... adjustments are about to be made at the hawks. they gotta figure out that cap table.

Instead of another round of "online media salary discourse" have you considered reading this incredible package of short essays......published in The Baffler thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends…

Dude couldn’t even run an arts org with an outsize, congressionally backed budget. Good luck on the next failure.

Let's just call autonomous pods and rideshares what they are - anti-social transit. Designed to keep you in your own bubble, never experiencing the good mental friction that keeps critical thinking and social skills alive. In ATL, it's giving the Monorail ep. of the Simpsons.

(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase @washingtonpost's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive. The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead. More in this week's issue of Regulator...

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. After nearly fifty years under wraps, the film conceived and filmed by the legendary William Greaves and restored/directed by David Greaves, spotlights footage from a 1972 gathering of luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. Coming soon to theaters.

Not every journalist can be their own brand, business, and distribution channel. Its unsustainable for journalists AND readers We saw this with streaming. Fragmentation and subscription overload drove costs higher than the bundled systems they replaced That could happen to news

It’s not as simple as “everyone should just start a Substack.” That’s a surface-level answer to a structural problem, and it ignores how media ecosystems, labor protections, and audiences actually work. It’s a bandaid, not a serious solution.

The Hazel Scott Show lasted three months because she was blacklisted after appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hazel was only 30 years old and a superstar at the time. She lived another 31 years, but her career never really recovered from being exiled.

Jazz at Lincoln Center announced today that, after nearly 40 years of visionary leadership, @wyntonmarsalis will transition from his current role at JALC. nytimes.com/2026/01/29/arts/…

i want people to understand that what you see on this website is not real life. dudes like this guy are far more representative of the median voter than people who keep spamming "yeah i voted for this" here and get 30k botted likes.

colonization. what they're describing is colonization. all for the oil.

Kidnapping heads of state by the US is not unprecedented. They did it with Aristride in 2004

Bombardeo patrocinado por el Premio Nobel de la Paz.