Trent Moorman on the Mindfuck of Being in Love While Being on Tour
"I would miss her call, not return it quickly enough—and the cycle of doubt would begin. She thought I was with some 19-year-old college girl, doing my Led-Zeppelin-on-tour-at-the-Edgewater imitation, when really I was stuck driving in Cleveland rush hour, two hours late to a club..."

More Stories About Touring and the Way It Complicates Love by Ben Gibbard, Khaela Maricich, Sean Nelson, Jesse Sykes, Sabzi, and Others
"Being on tour and giving a piece of yourself to the audience every night could, through some eyes, be seen as engaging in a sort of affair. I mean, it's best when it's intimate, and you really can't be in two places at once..."

Joe Mallahan Is an Idiot: Dominic Holden Counts the Ways
"Any single example of Mallahan's lack of qualifications would seem like a reasonable mistake, a gap of knowledge, or an indicator that Mallahan is an ordinary guy who has focused on some issues but not on others. But collectively, this is a portrait of someone who didn't give a damn about the city until he saw a top vacancy at City Hall, then essentially paid his way into the general election..."

Jen Graves on an Art Gallery Literally on Fire
"On the eve of the show's opening, a house caught on fire in the side courtyard of the gallery. The house was a work of art called There Goes the Neighborhood by the performance trio SuttonBeresCuller, and the only thing convincing about their claim that this wasn't a performance was the fact that they seemed genuinely glum—and that the facade of the gallery itself was broadly singed, its windows blasted out, its insulation melted into a crawling still-life..."

Kelly O Interviews the Spits
"It's 2:20 p.m., and I'm at the TacoTime on Madison and 15th trying to score some magic Mexi-Fries for my hangover..."

Mistress Matisse Tries Vanilla Sex (Briefly) to See What She's Missing
"Once you're used to kinky sex, it's difficult to have strictly regular, vanilla sex. I was reminded of that recently, because I tried..."

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