Leaving the US
The Aggregator: the Best of March
What got read. What lingered. What I liked.
Newsletter
Soundtrack
The Time Warp, With Instructions—in French
Fifty years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the difference between chaos you fall into and chaos you’re taught how to perform
Leaving the US
You Don’t Start Over, You Continue
You don’t start over. You bring everything with you.
Soundtrack
They Don’t Live, They Just Wait
Asturias, after coal, and the sound of exhaustion
culture
Some Cities Have Markets Every Weekend. Most of France Doesn’t.
How we built a home, what to know, and where to start
Soundtrack
Before Punk Had a Name, the Band Was Already There
From Lima to São Paulo, South American rock forces a rethink of who gets to define music history
culture
Quinqui: The Word That Traveled from Hardware to Street Crime
Flea markets, quinquis, and how language carries a country’s history with it
Soundtrack
The Songs That Never Went Away & Never Should Have Been Made
Marujita Díaz, old songs, and what gets carried forward without question
culture
“Me Cago en Dios”: The Phrase You’re Not Supposed to Understand
In northern Spain, what sounds like blasphemy is just everyday speech—a reminder sometimes, translation will only get you so far
Soundtrack
Music That Defined an Era: Quinqui Rumba and the Sound of 1970s Spain
A playlist from 1970s Spain with stories from the edges before they were softened, exported, and repackaged
Oddities
A Parrot Became a Local Legend. Then It Died.
Inside the bizarre true story of Ravachol, Spain’s most infamous bird
culture
Nothing is Wrong. Nothing Works.
What it feels like to live in a place that wasn’t built for you