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Digital and Print Reporter Natalie is a fact checker at The New Yorker. Her day-to-day responsibilities hone …

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Shaggy’s Boombastic Pilates Session

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By Natalie Meade Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
Maddie Eisler, a Manhattan Pilates instructor, was trying to explain why Shaggy got the shakes. She was guiding the fifty-seven-year-old reggae star through his first lesson at Space Pilates in the Flatiron district. “It’s the small-twitch muscle fibres, which support the larger muscles, that are activated,” she said. Shaggy was holding a squishy ball between his knees and pumping his arms up and down, making his whole body quiver. “I’ve been shaking my whole life,” he said.
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The Enigmatic Lila Iké

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By Natalie Meade Verified
| Lux-Magazine.com
The first time I heard Lila Iké’s music was in 2020 when I streamed a song called “Solitude.” A yearning voice sang over a violin and bass guitar riddim. “Peace of mind / that’s just what I seek to find / I ain’t in the mood / I just need some solitude / Is that too much to ask?” When I attended the Reggae Sumfest music festival this summer in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Iké performed wearing cornrows and an iridescent blue ensemble that evoked Jamaica’s shimmering Doctor Bird.
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Uncensoring The Subconscious

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| Lux-Magazine.com
In the logical mind, it might seem rational to disguise behaviors that we’re ashamed of. Human beings often avoid ideas that challenge assumptions that they accept as true but are prejudiced in reality. Surrealists could see how this reasoning can have devastating consequences over time. Suzanne Césaire, the Martinican theorist and activist, wrote that willful ignorance is an urgent cultural problem.
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