W illie Nelson is sitting on a couch at his home, a modest cabin that overlooks his 700 acres of gorgeous Texas Hill Country, when he reaches into his sweatshirt and produces a small, square vaporizer, takes a hit and exhales slowly. “Wanna puff?” he asks. Nelson’s wife, Annie, setting …
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At age 43, the rapper Big Boi is enjoying the biggest hit of his solo career: a cheerful, reassuring and toothless number titled “All Night.” On a recent Tuesday, he brought the single toThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonwith help from longtime collaborator Sleepy Brown. Fallon head-bobbed with his usual …
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Chani Nicholas doesn’t care for the hulking Alex Katz painting, depicting a trio of suited white men, hanging behind the front desk of the Langham hotel in New York. It reminds her of the patriarchy, she tells me one rainy, starless night in February, as we take the elevator up …
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