The word “timeless” has become a cliché, a selling tool for luxury goods. And yetKind of Blueis a timeless album, and “So What” arguably its signature number. What is this about? For sixty years and more, jazz and popular music had consisted of songs that told stories, either explicitly—in lyrics—or in their construction. You knew how it turned out—maybe you knew before the song started—but hearing about it could make you forget your troubles for a while or identify with the singer’s or the musician’s troubles. But with Miles, in life and in art, it was always the thing withheld. The essence of “So What” was that you had no idea how it turned out, or if it turned out. Which was pretty much the way the world was looking at that moment, and maybe the way (you had to think) it was going to look from then on. |
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| TheLupinstar on getting into character, personal style, and his custom Louis Vuitton look at the SAG Awards. |
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Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Mariupol, Ukraine. The siege was so quick—and the violence so indiscriminate—that only one video crew managed to get footage out of the city. Led by videographer and documentarian Mstyslav Chernov, a team ofAssociated Pressjournalists later put together video of their experience on the ground for a documentary titled20 Days in Mariupol. The film, which debuted in August, has since been nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards. “What you see on the screen is real,” Chernov tells Esquire. “It’s a symbol of what is still happening." |
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| A Knight of the Seven Kingdomsis the announcement we needed. |
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The ever-essential Jay Rosen took to the electric Xwitter machine to vivisect truly terrible campaign journalism from the gang at NBC. Taking on the character of a "post-publication editor," Rosen has some notes for the sextet responsible for the aforementioned landfill. The first one is the most basic question of all: How did it possibly take six people to write this mess? |
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