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The unfortunate truth of exes and music

One thing I love about meeting new people is learning what music they listen to. From bonding over knowing the same artists/bands to being struck by how different a person can seem from the music they listen to, I get new music from every new relationship I make. Music and people become associated with one another, a blessing and a curse. For some, hearing Sabrina Carpenter on the speakers in a Target is enough to start the waterworks. Music taste is such a personal thing that it’d be nearly impossible to find a single relationship in which there wasn’t at least one playlist made for or about the other person. So when relationships end, oftentimes a person’s fondness of their ex-partner’s music taste ends along with it.
Pick up the PH0N3, it’s T3L3PH0N3: An Interview with T3L3PH0N3
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Pick up the PH0N3, it’s T3L3PH0N3: An Interview with T3L3PH0N3

Most teenagers have a hard time figuring out who they are. T3L3PH0N3 is not like most teenagers. He is loud, chronically online, and completely uninterested in sanding down the edges of his personality to make anyone comfortable. His music — a mix of electro-pop, rap, and chaotic internet references — feels like a direct extension of him: unfiltered and self-aware. T3L3PH0N3 makes no attempt to clean up his music; if something shocks you, that's your problem. When his single “Harajuku Hennessy” was released, we knew we had to sit down with him and pick at his brain. We hung up the ph0n3 just as confused as when we started, and that’s probably how he likes it. 
A Wikipedia editor’s unintentional autobiography
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A Wikipedia editor’s unintentional autobiography

Wikipedia pages are my tarot cards. I don't edit them; I read them at 1 AM when I'm trying to understand something I can't quite yet name. An article on Speech Act theory leads to one on memory consolidation, which leads to symbolic interactionism, which leads to one on a philosopher I've never heard of. By 3 AM, I have seventeen tabs open, and if you mapped them, you'd have a perfect diagram of whatever I'm avoiding thinking about directly.
CONCERT REVIEW: Mustafa @ Lincoln Theater, 4/24/25
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CONCERT REVIEW: Mustafa @ Lincoln Theater, 4/24/25

Beneath the intricate chandeliers of Lincoln Theater in DC’s famous U Street corridor, Mustafa’s simply decorated stage featured only spare guitars and ouds. Greeted by a black screen with white text that read Dunya in Arabic script, the audience gradually streamed into their seats as it drew closer to eight. Many attendees draped their keffiyehs over their shoulders or sported clothing in support of the people of Gaza and Sudan, for whom the Canadian-Sudanese artist has consistently advocated for amidst the ongoing genocides.