We spoke to the filmmaker about biking in Paris and running in Athens, how her curious nature helps her find her subjects, and balancing motherhood and her career.
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The food historian has long believed that food is as much about satiation for the soul as for the stomach. She told us about food as a tool for political expression, sharing meals, and eating two breakfasts.
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When she’s not in her studio, the artist can be spotted on a walk through her neighborhood or a nearby park or visiting an exhibition at a museum. We spoke with Lynn about using her phone to find unexpected connections to fuel her art, befriending paintings, the algorithms underpinning society, and more.
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We met up with Grace Yi Tang, a receptionist at KEISY in Chinatown, to talk about her childhood in Malaysia, taking a parental role from an early age, and finding a sense of peace in life’s most stressful moments.
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We talked to activist Leah Faria about the campaign to close Riker’s, working out with Remy Ma, and what Faith Ringgold means to her.
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Rachel Seville Tashjian is a true flâneuse, often spotted on a walk through the city. We met up with Rachel in her Midtown apartment to talk about dressing for the symphony, watching three movies back-to-back, and more.
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You can often spot death doula Virginia Chang at the Union Square Farmer’s Market. We talked to Virginia about grief as an expression of love, leaving her career as a scientist, and learning to play the harp.
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Between bike rides around Barcelona, art director and editor Eleonora De Chiara spoke with us about the importance of patience, her favorite item in her archive, working at Paloma Wool, and more.
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You might spot fashion writer Liana Satenstein on a run around Prospect Park or food shopping in Brighton Beach. We chatted with her about working at Vogue, getting into fights at school, and spending time in Ukraine and Russia.
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Yasi Salek, host of the podcast Bandsplain, has made a career out of loving music. But before she was a podcaster, she was a kid in Torrance, CA, singing along to Madonna with her mom and saving her allowance money for CDs. Here, she shares the songs associated with some of her strongest memories, from first love and first-generation iPods to bad breakups and looking for the divine.
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You’re unlikely to spot painter Huong Dodinh on the street, as she’s nearly always at her home studio, working on her next painting. We visited Huong there for a chat about seeing snow for the first time, painting in total silence, and coming out of a coma.
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Sarah Ben Romdane's family produced olive oil in Tunisia from the end of the 19th century until the 1950s — and with her brand, KAÏA, Sarah has picked up the family legacy, producing olive oil on the same family-owned estate. We caught up with Sarah about olive oil, Ottoman stews and Levantine rice dishes, and nostalgic eating in diaspora.
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We caught up with Human Rights Policy Analyst Marianna to talk about immigrating from Georgia to the Netherlands as a child, expanding her French vocabulary through 90s rap, and the role of fashion in diplomacy.
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If you find yourself wandering through the stacks at The New York Public Library, you might run into Hiba Abid, the Library’s first-ever curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies — though she prefers Curator-Librarian. We stopped by Hiba’s apartment to chat about working at The New York Public Library, the traces of history left in manuscripts, and clubbing alone.
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We stopped by political organizer Kifah Shah’s home to chat about becoming a mother, student organizing, reading Marx when she was ten, and more.
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Where you’ll spot Tiana Rainford depends on her food cravings — she might be in Chinatown for vegan dumplings or in Williamsburg for pizza. But she’ll always come home to East New York, where she welcomed us into her apartment to talk about food and family, the ancient art of phone calls with friends, and being a reformed tomboy.
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Writer and activist Carol J. Adams, the pioneer of feminist-vegan critical theory, spends a lot of time thinking about the ethics of what we eat and how we care for one another — and she also spends a lot of her time cooking and eating with those she loves.
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On a rainy Friday in Brooklyn, we sat down with multidisciplinary artist Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter to discuss histories of Black refusal, adultification bias, systems of care in our society, and much more.
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We spoke with photographer Pia Riverola about her tenuous relationship with her iPhone, her favorite newsletter, a tradition of making phone calls with no purpose from her childhood in Barcelona, and more.
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We talked to boxing coach Colline Laninga about starting college at 16, going from periods of homelessness to the apartment where she met her friend and business partner, her ‘polycule elixir,’ and more.
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