Nico Muhly’s Glorious Beyoncé Review

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Composer Nico Muhly works well beyond the confines of classical music, collaborating with everyone from Diplo to Bjork. The breadth of his musical taste is as strong as his skills in creating it, and from his recent review of Beyoncé’s new album, writing about it as well. While in rural Iceland, he was awoken in the night to join hundreds of thousands online in downloading …

Architect Dream Homes

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Though architects aren’t ones to lack creativity, they’re sometimes unable to express it at its full potential. It’s only in dreaming up their own homes that they can draw and build without construction and client restrictions. So why not ask them to build their dream homes? In his “Solo Houses” experiment, developer Christian Courdais gave 10 architects a blank slate to work from for fantastical …

Etymology of “Shorty” in Hip Hop

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A perfectly over analyzed look at hip-hop’s beloved “shorty,” Matthew Daniels’ investigative website dedicated to the term takes a look at its debut via Too Short in ’85, the popular use throughout the mid ’90s when it changed spelling to “shawty,” as well as its shift in meaning at the beginning of the current century. With heaps of quotes and credible research, the site breaks …