As the apology tour hits New Orleans, our correspondent wonders who is watching—and why.

Bots are listening to $TARFACE. Are you?

An investigation

Finding peace with the world-beating New York Knicks

gold toilets & chandeliers. Click to read Never Hungover, by ock sportello, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

In Egor Dëmin, the Nets find a future star. But it is not just the novelty of investing hope in a teenager that has rendered 'The Dëmin Show' so psychedelic.

You're now rocking with the best

Plus AI, the busted algo, Your Name Here, and Armand Hammer's Mercy

This year, Tim Robinson and Conner O’Malley have reached the peak of their comedic aims, toeing an impossible line between analyzing modern masculinity and falling prey to its more odious features

Harry and I did not know that Nico Harrison was about to be fired when we invited famed blogger Ock Sportello back on Nothing But Respect this week, but the timing worked out perfectly, as our…

This morning, in a political stunt meant to distract the sports-watching world from Egor Dëmin going 4 of 6 from deep in his NBA debut, Kash Patel’s FBI arrested Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, and a ...

The 2025-26 Never Hungover Brooklyn Nets season preview; or, how and whether to keep loving a team that hates your guts

An inside look at Power Slap, Dana White's next big bet.

Jack Lubin considers state censorship and New Orleans rapper B.G.’s album “Freedom of Speech,” in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”

On Friendship, Eephus, Vulcanizadora

Considering the NBA's swag crisis, Zyn, and the West Village Girls

A quick appreciation of Amalia Ulman's Magic Farm, my favorite movie of the year so far

Ock Sportello speaks to the Backwoodz frontman about his new album, fatherhood, the infamous orchestra-backed Nas concert at Carnegie Hall and more.

Ock Sportello speaks to the Backwoodz frontman about his new album, fatherhood, the infamous orchestra-backed Nas concert at Carnegie Hall and more.

Concerning The Shrouds, The Rehearsal, Wolves-Lakers Round 1, and Savannah Bananas Great Replacement Theory

Thinking about Skrillex, Baby Invasion, and Galaxy Gas

Some loosely collected thoughts on Playboi Carti's MUSIC

Jack Lubin reports from Super Bowl week in New Orleans.

Against the sports quote graphic industrial complex

For his POW debut, Ock Sportello reports on how Timothée Chalamet has become the first genuinely inescapable movie star of his generation.

Tracing the dismal history of banger-hunting from Ellen DeGeneres to the present

Tracing the dismal history of banger-hunting from Ellen DeGeneres to the present

"Lamelo...to himself...oh yeah," or; toward a theory of LaMelo Ball as the first great Zoomer athlete

Music, Movies, Books (Book?), Moments

Another explanation for the conservative turn among young men