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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Kathleen Hanna’s Girl Style, Then and Now
As a kid I had this Winnie the Pooh dress—my grandma worked at Sears for like forty years so we got a discount, and everything came from there. I used to put pieces of fabric on it with safety pins and...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Brandon Schwartzel’s Bucket Hat
I’ve never been a hair person, but I’ve always been a hat person. I don’t know if that’s because I like hats, or because I don’t like hair. But what I do know is that ever since I was a little kid I’ve...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Shana Cleveland’s Grandma’s Hats
My grandpa was in real estate. It wasn’t easy to find places where he could be successful. My grandparents moved around a lot, often through small towns in the Midwest where they were the only black...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Katie Alice Greer’s Found Magazine
When I was in college, I switched majors a few times, and ended up getting my degree in political science. I thought maybe I’d be a senator one day or something, but once I got up close to that world...
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Wanted/Need/Loved: Moby’s 30 Rock
Like everybody, I watch a lot of television. I’m fifty-three years old, so in the course of my life I’ve spent say fifty-two years watching TV, and in all that time there have been a lot of great...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Palehound’s Special Skateboard
As a kid I was never really into sports, but when I was about eight years old, I got really into the Tony Hawk games on GameCube and I was also really into Avril Lavigne—everything about skateboarding...
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Comics as Critique: Talking with Ezra Claytan Daniels
Ezra Claytan Daniels is a writer and illustrator best known for his collaborative multimedia projects, which include video games, animations, feature documentaries, and graphic novels. In 2012 his...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Snail Mail’s Beloved Books
I’ve always been a really avid reader and writer, and I planned to be an English major in college, even though I’ve put that on hold to pursue music. Wherever I go out on tour, I always have a book...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Sanae Yamada’s Favorite Foods
I spend a lot of time on tour, traveling all over the place for music, for many months out of the year, many years on end. I get homesick sometimes but it’s not really for a place—more like for a...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Donna Dresch’s World of Radio
I’m a Navy brat so we always moved around every year, sometimes even more often. When I was a kid my parents gave me this stuffed animal dog radio. It got AM stations, and I remember at night, which is...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Tom May’s Hiking Boots
Sometimes when you play festivals, different companies give out free shit to the artists. Once, and I think this might have been the first time this happened, someone said, “Hey, if the band wants some...
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Everything Is Happening All of the Time: Talking with Sven Ratzke
Cabaret superstar Sven Ratzke has performed all around the world, including Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble in Berlin, the Sydney Opera House, and Arts...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Erin McKeown’s Dress
From 1998-2001, I was a resident artist at this amazing, visionary community arts organization in Providence called AS220. I was still in college, but I was living in the communal residency studios and...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Alice Bag’s Queen’s Quilt
I grew up in East LA in the ‘60s. My parents were both immigrants and we were poor. My mom was a stay-at-home mom most of the time and my father worked in construction. The times when we had money, I...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thurston Moore’s 12-String Guitar
Two years ago I was commissioned to present music here in London at The Barbican. I had done work with them through the years in different capacities, but usually as a bit of a guest to somebody else....
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy is the founding member and leader of the Grammy Award winning American rock band Wilco, and before that the cofounder of the alt‐country band Uncle Tupelo. Over the course of his prolific...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Palehound’s Special Skateboard
As a kid I was never really into sports, but when I was about eight years old, I got really into the Tony Hawk games on GameCube and I was also really into Avril Lavigne—everything about skateboarding...
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Wanted/Need/Loved: Moby’s 30 Rock
Like everybody, I watch a lot of television. I’m fifty-three years old, so in the course of my life I’ve spent say fifty-two years watching TV, and in all that time there have been a lot of great...
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