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Portrait of the Critic as a Mucus Factory: A Feverish Night with Dorian Gray
Sarah Snook's kaleidoscopic performance on Broadway
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AI Really Is Coming For Artists
What the new WEF report tells us about the impending AI-induced bedlam.
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Postponed Parade: How I Turned Musicians' Isolation into Visual Chaos (Without Therapy)
The process of designing a jazz album cover for one of my favourite musicians.
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Projections of Grandeur: Confessions of an Accidental Theatre Set Designer
Process: 12 years ago, projection technology wasn’t the AI-fueled fever dream it is today— but I got to push the limits during a show in Melbourne.
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Chatfield X Waking Up: The Most Fulfilling Collaboration Project of my Career.
On Sam Harris, Meditation, & The Most Fulfilling Project of my Career.
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ANZAC Day in New York
Lest We Forget (...what we have, while we have it.)
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Book Creation Process: from Concept to Finished Book
A peek behind the curtain: How does a book get made?
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'That Moment When You Realize You've Ruined Your Resume Forever'
Nick Hornby's Listening Party at Generation Records featuring Jon Ronson, Kimbra, Alison Moorer, Margaret Glaspy & Sam Kriss
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The New Yorker Cartoonists Centoonial Party
A hundred New Yorker Cartoonists walk into a bar...
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Small Circles: On Drawing Numismatists and Finding Your Own Kind
An eventful night between the New Yorker 100th Anniversary Cartoonist Show at The Society Of Illustrators & the New York International Numismatic…
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3 Covers to Celebrate the 100th Birthday of Eustace Tilley
The very first edition of The New Yorker was published on this date in 1925.
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Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York
So many good boys and good girls. So many.
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Sketchbook: The Launch of The Metropolitan Review
My attempt to put words together about a new publication reviewing the putting together of words.
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Last Call at the Brickyard: A Comedy Post-Mortem
Fear and Loathing in Radiator Country
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Gary Gulman: Grandiloquent - When Words Take Flight
The Gul's unmissable new show at the Lucille Lortel Theatre is an ode to the written (and spoken) word.
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Silencing the Court Jesters.
10 years ago, cartoonists were murdered for drawing offensive things. Things have not been getting better since.
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A Tale of Two New York Cities: From Hudson Yards to Hell's Kitchen
Notes on a 4-year sojourn among Manhattan's blue glassed sky castles
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A Night at Radio City Music Hall
A shooter on the loose, a new comedy special, and the journey of NYC's longest Banh Mi. Ronny Chieng's "Love To Hate It" tour kicked off with several…
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Spilling Ink at the Hotel Chelsea
Substack invited me to live-sketch a rare night with iconic writers, Mary Gaitskill and Tavi Gevinson.
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3 Hot Hours Stranded on New Jersey Transit with Livid Passengers
"I repeat: There are no trains goin' in or out of New York. We don't know when service will resume. We apologize for the inconvenience..."
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MAD Magazine Finally Gets the Curtain Call it Deserves
The Usual Gang of Idiots were Demigods in my Pantheon growing up; The exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum is a perfectly curated collection of…
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NYC Is 'Dead' Forever: Here's Why Not
There are no single "Why I'm leaving NYC" essays that have aged more poorly or well than those of James Altucher and Jerry Seinfeld, respectively.
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A New York Burlesque Show, A Crotch Muppet, The Stripper Police & A Belarusian Prison Guard
A Tiger Queen and a sexagenarian stripper on a Ukulele- What more could you want from a Burlesque graduation show?
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A Botched Audition, a Hair-Dryer, and a hunt for Piña Colada mix.
Another idiotic day in my life in New York, circa 2017.
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