When it comes to Taylor Swift, everyone has an opinion. Is she one of the most talented, hardworking entertainers of our time or just another out-of-touch billionaire? Depends who you ask...

When we were young and the summers were hot, we had a ritual in my family. My Grandpa T would drive us out to get strawberries and watermelon in central Texas. It was a two-hour drive in the back of his Cadillac from our Houston suburb. We had to listen to....

The Black Dandy in America was born in the post-emancipation era, had its rebirth in the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, then resurged again with the likes of Dapper Dan, Queen Latifah, and André Leon Talley. As Ty Gaskins wrote for Vogue, it is “a defiant reclaiming of space in a world that has long sought...

As I watched SNL spoof “Signalgate” in last week’s cold open, I was thinking about a mythological dragon. In ancient times, this dragon was said to devour the Sun or the Moon during an eclipse...

Brash, unfiltered, spoiling for a fight — this Oscars season embodied the spirit of Venus retrograde in Aries. The planet of love, art, beauty, and sex work stationed retrograde in the sign of the ram on March 1st, one day before the Academy Awards ceremony. In Aries, Venus is a scream queen. Uncouth. Beholden to no one ...

A Mars-in-Cancer native like Kendrick Lamar attacks from the side. He cobbles together his forces en masse — not unlike the invasive crab species currently dominating New England this Mars retrograde — until they grow to become an unmovable, armored force. Last Sunday, Kendrick became the...