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Kurt Vile Gets the Feeling

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By Nick Paumgarten Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
He made his way over to Le Poisson Rouge, on Bleecker Street. The act tonight was the Messthetics, a punk-prog-jazz outfit, featuring the drummer and the bassist from Fugazi (Brendan Canty and Joe Lally), a guitar wizard (Anthony Pirog), and a sax man (James Brandon Lewis). Vile greeted Canty and Lally at the merch table and then found a spot at the back. “I think last time I was here was fourteen years ago. J Mascis and Mike Watt were doing a Stooges thing.
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In HBO’s “The Dark Wizard,” Dean Potter Climbs On

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By Nick Paumgarten Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
The morning before Dean Potter died, in May, 2015, he and his girlfriend, Jennifer Rapp, were puttering around their house in Yosemite. Potter, the world-famous rock climber and daredevil, had just returned from a trip to Germany, and Rapp had flown in from Vancouver, the headquarters of the apparel company Arc’teryx, where she was head of communications. In the living room, Rapp tried on some dresses for Potter. “Help me pick one,” she said.
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Jan Staller, Constructor of Image

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By Nick Paumgarten Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
"I photograph construction sites," Jan Staller says to security guards when they try to shoo him away. He doesn't like to be told no, but some version of no is usually what he gets. So he shoots from outside the fence. In recent years, he has focussed on material held aloft by cranes. In isolation, against a white background that is actually overcast sky, a hook or a caisson or a sheaf of rebar appears sculptural, abstract, exquisite.
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