'Manhunt' + ATL Asians + Tyla + 🥭 macaron

also: I feel loss within 'Cowboy Carter'

loupe.

The late Donna Summer from the new Grievous Angels, Trout Masks, and American Beauties: The 1970s Rock & Roll Photography of Ginny Winn, which features 175 of her images. More, here.

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This Los Angeles rain is my kinda noise.

It helps me work, and it helps me sleep. I have projects crowded onto front-burners, and the work has me researching everything from the madness of lane markings on California roads to 110 synonyms and antonyms for “fear.” And because I did a second-screen binge of American Rust (even more bleak than Mare of Easttown), I had to look up “dippy eggs,” which I didn’t know were so especially beloved in Pittsburgh. When I couldn’t put my finger on Lakers guard Austin Reaves’ accent, I found out more here.

I appeared on The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart this weekend — talked about Beyoncé’s new Americana extravaganza, Cowboy Carter. It’s an intergenerational, genre-shattering hoedown. A reclamation. A talent show. And after just a few full listens, the album makes a number of things clear:

• The idea of America as a country — its rural spaces, its cowboy culture, its red, white and blue, its very flag — is not the property of any one group. No