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Miguel Is Making R&B Look -- and Sound -- Damn Good Again.
Shirt by Alexander Wang, bracelets by The Great Frog and Shayan Afshar. (Click to Enlarge)Last year at this time, Miguel was a relative unknown. The 26-year-old singer was working on his second album, Kaleidoscope Dream,…
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Writer Elliott Holt Composes Thank You Notes and Tweets Short Fiction
Self-portrait and notes created by Elliott Holt "I have expensive taste in paper," says writer Elliott Holt of the personalized stationery she orders annually from London. " I write thank-you notes. You have to…
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MM's Travel Tips, Plus How to Roadproof Your Relationship
Dear Mr. Mickey, I recently started dating a guy who I really like and we're planning to go on a cross-country trip together. We're going to be spending a lot of quality time together in…
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Weird, Smart, Funny, Yummy: 10 Food Blogs to Know Now
We round up some of the best food blogs making us hungry right now...monicatramos.tumblr.com This illustrator's blog is fixated on food, placing it in playful contexts with human figures (who ride Asian eggplants, or float…
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Vevo President Rio Caraeff Is Bringing Back Music Television
Self-portrait photographed by Rio Caraeff"Man, remember when MTV actually..." Yes, even those raised on The Real World know that there once was something called "music television," which guzzled record labels' marketing dollars and…
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LaQuan Smith's Bold Designs Have Taken Him From the Five Boroughs to Lagos
LaQuan Smith (center) with models (l-r): Andrea Tanner and Natalia Solovieva at MUSE / Hair: Jawara Wauchope Makeup: Alana J Discovered when he was only 21 by former Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley, self-taught fashion…
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A Pittsburgh Restaurant Serves Up Food With a Side of Political Discourse
When President George W. Bush uttered the phrase "Axis of Evil" in his 2002 State of the Union address, his words were aimed squarely at Iran, Iraq and North Korea. North Korea's foreign minister fired…
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Not Since Balenciaga Has a Spanish Label Generated As Much Buzz as Delpozo
Not since Balenciaga has a Spanish fashion house generated such buzz as the recent New York debut of Madrilenian label Delpozo. An austere Westside Highway office space covered in plush floral carpet set the…
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At 22, RJ Rushmore Has Become One of Street Art's Premier Chroniclers
Portrait of RJ Rushmore created by Elbow-ToeStreet art, more than many other forms of visual communication, is at the mercy of location and timing. You can never really know when someone will paint over…
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Lorenzo Martone's New Bikes Are as Chic as Their Designer
Here's a genius way to get the word out about the collection of stylish, retro-inspired bikes you've just designed: Make like plugged-in fashion publicist Lorenzo Martone and ride up on one of said bikes…
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All the Loot We're Craving This Month
ALL MIXED UP Shoes top to bottom by: Adidas x Opening Ceremony. $235 at Adidas Originals, 136 Wooster St., New York. Kenzo. Price upon request at kenzo.com Puma by Mihara. $180 at Puma Black, 421…
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Note From Kim: Going Back to the Land -- and Posting About It
It fascinates me to no end as I watch the newest generation of digital native super-hipsters embracing what many are calling today's "new industrial revolution" -- an age filled with futuristic innovations like 3-D printers…
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DIY Guru Bre Pettis Has Invented the First Affordable 3-D Printer
Bre Pettis (and other items) printed in 3-D. photographed by Ryan Kobane "Be very careful if you make a great slingshot for your hovercraft," advises Bre Pettis, DIY guru and a founder of the first…
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These chefs, farmers and bakers are so ahead of their time, we had to make up a new word for them.
There's plenty of good food in New York, but it's on the West Coast where food movements really take shape. From Los Angeles to Washington's Lummi Island, it's not enough to be 'artisanal' anymore. We…
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Awkward Black Girl's Issa Rae Is About to Blow Up
Issa Rae photographed by Christopher Dibble "Why couldn't Seinfeld have black people? Did they think black people wouldn't find it funny?" This was the question the producer/director/writer Issa Rae asked herself when creating her…
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Five Ordinary-Folk Parody Accounts to Follow on Twitter
The world doesn't need another @GrumpyCatPope parody Twitter account's take on the Super Bowl. These Twitter accounts tweet as if they're ordinary people who might actually exist in our world, which is the funniest parody…
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From Tumblr to Fashion Week, #been #trill Have Their Hands In All That's Cool
Self-portrait created by #Been #Trill For anyone with even a remote interest in music, fashion or the Internet, it might be hard to suppress feelings of intense jealousy when talking about #Been #Trill. Lately,…
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VFILES' Julie Anne Quay Brings Fans Into the Fashion Party
Portraits of Julie Anne Quay photographed by David Toro for Vfiles When Julie Anne Quay was the executive editor of V magazine she never missed one of the fashion magazine's legendary parties. "There'd be…
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How to Eat Your Way to Peace in the Middle East
We invited Israeli-American chef Lulu Kalman to document her favorite dishes from both Jewish and Arab cultures.The fight over who invented hummus goes back ages. Chickpeas have been around for 9,000-ish years and hummus has…
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Note From David: Living in Real Time, Dealing with the Digital Juggernaut
A technology issue of a print publication? How oxymoronic! Print is a medium under siege, its nearly 600-year hegemony challenged by the upstart digital media -- a brutal, speed-defying force capable of spitting out…
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