Johnson frequently uses his saxophone to control a sampler or drum machine, triggering changes in loops and effects, but the technology is ultimately subordinate to physical expression.
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SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
9 Sep. 2026
Often rapping over drumless loops, Elsesser took inspiration from Yasiin Bey and the late Ka, the Brownsville MC and producer who spent his days as an FDNY captain and nights as a pillar of hip-hop’s avant-garde.
The tight cropping in the monochrome nudes isolates slopes, folds, shadowed recesses and curved planes that hover between landscape and abstraction.
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Tara Anne Dalbow,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, from Uçhisar's higher terraces and viewpoints, Cappadocia unfurls below in great geological folds, with Göreme and its surrounding valleys in the distance.
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Scott Campbell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Sep. 2026
Our final stop was Kahlenberg, a hilltop on the city’s northern edge that offers sweeping views over the skyline, the Danube River winding through the city below and vineyards spilling down the surrounding slopes.
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Regan Stephens,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2026
At 3,400 feet in the Allegheny Mountains, the Glades exist in a place where cold air sinks from the surrounding mountain slopes into low hollows—aptly called frost pockets.
In their alternating waves of resentment and understanding, anger and sorrow, D’Arcy and Cooke imbue Rhaenyra and Alicent’s dynamic with all the weight of this history and none of its convolutions.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
15 June 2026
Laser light and microscopic lenses then carry out convolutions faster and with lower energy needs.
Filmed largely in secret over three years, the nearly three-hour doc is an inside view of Holmes’ final weeks before going to prison, then mutates into reenactments and mind-bending twists that meld reality and performance.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Sep. 2026
Texas barbecue is typically defined by salt-and-pepper brisket and pork ribs, but this new crop of halal pitmasters is adding inventive twists, often based on their own family heritages.
Once inside the brain, the nanoparticles would be controlled—to stimulate neurons in specific areas of the brain or to read neuron activity—through a specialized cap or headset containing magnetic coils.
Such a beautiful sculpture, mimicking the swirls found in nature (the cosmos, shells, Fibonacci-following topiary) felt a far cry from the swirl of emotions prompted by my favorite TV shows.
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