Mekala Rajagopal - Journalist Profile - Intelligent Relations (2024)

The 37-year-old actor, who scored a Tony nom for his hilarious turn as the sound engineer in "Stereophonic," caught up with his "Skintight" co-star Idina Menzel.

Diamond Stingily wears Dress, Top, Pants, and Shoes Balenciaga. Earrings

“I’ve never even called myself a photographer. I just do what I do,” said Reynaldo Rivera when he reunited with his old friend and fashion designer Willy Chavarria to play dress-up before his new exhibition. Fistful of Love/También la belleza

Honor Levy wears Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories (worn throughout)

"We're at church with our fans and we're gossiping," declared the literary it-girl at her sold-out Secrets reading last week. "It's very Southern Baptist."

Crackhead Barney has been rocking diapers and menacing conservatives for years, but it wasn’t until the performance artist went head-to-head with Alec Baldwin in a New York coffee shop in April that she gained true notoriety. Following a dramatic guest appearance on Piers Morgan, the self-identified white woman called up her biggest stan, the author Brontez Purnell, to talk Trump rallies, Black titt*es, and babysitting men.

Zsela is always in motion. The musician and muse is inspired by chaos, much like the constant transition of her native New York. For the past few years, she’s taken it to L.A. to simmer in a different type of inspiration, but in writing her latest album, Big For You, her swelling, soulful studio debut which dropped last week, she found herself longing for a certain flavor of New York stillness that she only finds on the ferry to the studio or on a train to her childhood home. To conjure some of that feeling, she took it back to her borough before a weekend performance and showed us a day in the life in the whirlwind that is Brooklyn.

TikTok runway critic Lyas tries on some trends we love to hate.

In this edition of Smoke Break, we caught the fashion legend after a screening of "Queendom," a new documentary by director Agniia Galdanova.

Downtown, the performance artist hosted an off-the-rails live version of the presidential debate, so we stopped by to hear from the candidates—or their alter egos.