Content Type: Personal Profile

June 19, 2021

Gerald Stratford Knows How to Garden

His quiet life in England brought fame. He wasn’t asking for it. Gerald Stratford’s big vegetables and ordinary life changed with a tweet. He posted two […]
June 18, 2021

The Stylist Akeem Smith Turns Jamaican Dance Hall Into Art

As a fashion influence, his creative orbit includes Hood by Air, Helmut Lang and his own label, Section 8. Name: Akeem Smith Age: 29 Hometown: the […]
June 14, 2021

‘C Is for Code Switching’ and Other Lessons

The artist Topaz Jones mined his personal education to create an award-winning visual album. The rapper Topaz Jones recently decided to cut the locs he had […]
June 12, 2021

¿Quién es Khaby Lame, la estrella italiana de Tiktok?

Antes de convertirse en el creador de contenido que más crece en TikTok fue obrero en Italia. En marzo de 2020, durante los primeros días de […]
June 11, 2021

‘Betty’ Skates Into Season 2

The young stars of the HBO skate comedy discuss how pandemic-era New York shaped the new season. “Our show grows with us and changes with our […]
June 10, 2021

In Covid’s Early Days, Her Loss Resonated. She Hopes Her Hope Does, Too.

LOS ANGELES — Amanda Kloots is not surprised that she’s famous. You don’t move to New York from Ohio at 18, go to countless thanks-but-no-thanks auditions, […]
June 5, 2021

Symone of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ On Drag, Her Win and Self-Love

For years, Symone — the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin — has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black […]
June 5, 2021

Symone of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ On Drag, Her Win and Self-Love

For years, Symone — the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin — has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black […]
June 2, 2021

How Khaby Lame Took Over TikTok

A former factory worker in Italy has become the fastest-growing content creator on TikTok. In March 2020, during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Khabane […]
May 31, 2021

Maureen Dowd Talks ‘Mare of Easttown’ With Kate Winslet

Philly’s a tough town. If there’s a quintessential story about the City of Brotherly Love, it’s this one: In 2015, when Canadian researchers developed a child-sized […]