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Our money plant is dying, but we'll have bud by fall
All the things I did this summer.
Sep 1
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Alessandra Schade
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August 2025
Avenue Queer—home is in the Bushwick streets
At Pink Metal, Nikki Sweet debuted her new single for a crowd huddled around a laptop on a barstool.
Aug 25
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Alessandra Schade
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Funeral faux pas and other unspoken rules of grief
A personal postscript to my TIME piece on digital mourning etiquette.
Aug 5
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Alessandra Schade
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July 2025
Grief is no match for a crystal-embellished heel
Credentials: I'm in bed but it's okay because I own a fabulous shoe.
Jul 24
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Alessandra Schade
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The secret bathhouse rave where the sluts, gays, and A-listers schvitz under one roof is back this summer
On August 23, Steamroom is coming back to Brooklyn.
Jul 22
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Alessandra Schade
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The thinking man's porn star
At 78, Veronica Vera reflects on five decades of kink, feminism, art, and rebellion.
Jul 14
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Alessandra Schade
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She’ll kidnap you and read you The Communist Manifesto in her dungeon
Paula Dreidemie, a Barcelona-based dominatrix, runs a dungeon out of a storage unit, where men pay to be dominated, degraded, and assigned homework.
Jul 2
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Alessandra Schade
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June 2025
Ugly hot shoes for stomping around NYC in the summer
Credentials: I walk everywhere and hate how my legs look in most shoes.
Jun 30
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Alessandra Schade
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I'm not a photographer. I just want to take photos in exchange for money.
Apparently you can get paid—in cash and on time—for taking photos. What about the months-long game of begging people for the money they owe you? It's…
Jun 27
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Alessandra Schade
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The best mermaids are in Coney Island
According to Irish folklore (kind of), when my boyfriend dies, he will return to sea as a merman. I had to do some research…
Jun 24
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Alessandra Schade
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I didn't want to make a Substack
As a journalist I'm terrified of unpaid work and self-promotion.
Jun 19
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Alessandra Schade
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