love this convo between @abebeame.bsky.social and @craigsj.bsky.social: www.bkmag.com/2026/06/04/t...
Talking Revolutionary Film and 'The Overseer Class' with Craig Jenkins
A chaotic, complex, and hilarious preview of an upcoming BAM film series, with co-presenter and Pulitzer-nominated writer Craig Jenkins.
bkmag.com
In February, I hung out with America’s Internet princeling, Jaboukie Young-White, and wrote about what his new hour of standup means to his career, and what his career means to comedy in 2026. www.bkmag.com/2026/03/31/j...
Jaboukie Young-White is Taking it One Set at a Time
How Jaboukie Young-White, the heart-shaped face of comedy's social media generation, is finding his voice by starting over.
bkmag.com
In February, I hung out with America’s Internet princeling, Jaboukie Young-White, and wrote about what his new hour of standup means to his career, and what his career means to comedy in 2026. www.bkmag.com/2026/03/31/j...
Jaboukie Young-White is Taking it One Set at a Time
How Jaboukie Young-White, the heart-shaped face of comedy's social media generation, is finding his voice by starting over.
bkmag.com
"Take this as a call to arms. You have an opportunity to become a general in the struggle to preserve a culture." On the magazines and ephemera that documented hip hop culture, and the urgency of preservation by @abebeame.bsky.social on @defector.com -> defector.com/lost-recipes
The Struggle To Preserve Rap's Past
In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...
defector.com
You may not know Andy Weir’s name yet but the author of Project Hail Mary has established himself as the new Michael Crichton. He made a list of the sci-fi books and movies that influenced him as a young writer and we discussed. www.gq.com/story/projec...
‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir Recommends Ten Sci-Fi Books and Movies That Shaped Him
Weir—who also wrote the novel that became ‘The Martian’—picks influential works from Isaac Asimov, Iain Banks, and George Lucas.
gq.com
For most of my childhood my mom was a researcher at Entertainment Weekly and worked in their massive library of other magazines reporters were constantly referencing. We lose so much when reporters, or anyone else, can't access that history.
🧢@abebeame.bsky.social · 5mo agoI wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes
This was a great read. As a Mind Squad alum who fought with publishers to digitize mag content, thank you for this.
🧢@abebeame.bsky.social · 5mo agoI wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes
great piece. the erosion of search has made finding old music journalism even more frustrating I use proquest through a friend's NYPL card to access a lot of mag and newspaper archives, but pdfs aren't as easy to share as links (and what if my friend moves?!?)
🧢@abebeame.bsky.social · 5mo agoI wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes
I still have all the magazines I collected from my teen years through early adulthood. They've survived several moves (one cross country). They sit in a crate in my garage. One day I'll finally give them the ol' cellophane treatment. They're legit relics now and should be treated respectfully.
🧢@abebeame.bsky.social · 5mo agoI wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes
Really good deep dive on the terrible state of hip-hop media archives and what that means for culture writing today
Lost Recipes | Defector
In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...
defector.com
I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes
Lost Recipes | Defector
In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...
defector.com
For March, the column travels both to Myrtle Ave and the El Paso/Juarez border to discuss the best tortillas in America, self-funding a hit restaurant, and how New Yorkers feel about ICE with the great Chef Alan Delgado. www.bkmag.com/2026/03/03/o...
Open Kitchen: A Conversation with Alan Delgado of Los Burritos Juárez
The affable Chef Alan Delgado on running a day one hit at Los Burritos Juárez, powered by a singular, self-formulated, and transformative flour tortilla.
bkmag.com
a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich
Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making ‘Munich’
Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get ...
gq.com
This weekend at BAM, Criterion curatorial director Ashley Clark has programmed a series with selections from his new essential new book, The World of Black Film. I got on the phone with Ash to discuss his life’s work, Spike Lee, and more. www.bkmag.com/2026/02/24/a...
Ashley Clark Brings 'The World of Black Film' to BAM
Ahead of his new series at BAM, the Criterion Collection curator outlines a unified theory on curious, thoughtful, and intentional film programming.
bkmag.com
in which @abebeame.bsky.social talks to some Barbz from X about their queen, gets some extremely revealing responses, and afterward gets accused of being a paid op against Nicki: www.complex.com/music/a/abe-...
Nicki Minaj Went MAGA. Here's What the Barbz Had to Say.
We asked some Barbz about Nick Minaj embracing Donald Tru...
complex.com
Opened the DMs to find out what happens when a historically apolitical space dedicated to celebrity beef and streaming charts gets radicalized. www.complex.com/music/a/abe-...
Nicki Minaj Went MAGA. Here's What the Barbz Had to Say.
We asked some Barbz about Nick Minaj embracing Donald Tru...
complex.com
Casino turned 30 over the weekend. I wrote about the maximalist brilliance many critics missed in 1995 and why they missed it, as well as its place in Scorsese’s filmography three decades later. inreviewonline.com/2025/11/24/y...
You Can't See the Desert: Casino at 30 | In Review Online
A new film essay titled You Can't See the Desert: Casino at 30 for film review site In Review Online.
inreviewonline.com
A beautiful requiem for the miracle that was D'Angelo. The pen, the voice, the face, the talent. The three classics. The genius that he could summon by force of will. The impossibility of categorizing him. The void that his death leaves. By Abe Beame www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/d...
The Anointed One: A Requiem For D'Angelo | Passion of the Weiss
Abe Beame eulogizes the inimitable genius of the soul icon who tragically passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer.
passionweiss.com
Dug this heartfelt tribute to D'Angelo by @abebeame.bsky.social. "With each project that parallel line between the sound of mainstream R&B & whatever TF D’Angelo is up to continued to diverge...but the songs were no less potent or beloved." HT @nitishpahwa.com | www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/d...
The Anointed One: A Requiem For D'Angelo | Passion of the Weiss
Abe Beame eulogizes the inimitable genius of the soul icon who tragically passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer.
passionweiss.com
few people beat @abebeame.bsky.social when it comes to passionate, deeply felt obits of our greatest artists
Jeff Weiss@passionweiss.bsky.social · 10mo agoA beautiful requiem for the miracle that was D'Angelo. The pen, the voice, the face, the talent. The three classics. The genius that he could summon by force of will. The impossibility of categorizing him. The void that his death leaves. By Abe Beame www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/d...
so, @abebeame.bsky.social finagled his way into the NYFF's Marty Supreme events, then penned a dispatch for the ages
Inside Timothée Chalamet's Surprise Marty Supreme Screening (and the Afterparty Supreme)
A sneak preview of Josh Safdie's Chalamet-led ping-pong-wizard epic at the New York Film Festival sold out in minutes. We dreamed big and made it past the velvet rope.
gq.com
Feed: "GQ UK" By: Abe Beame on Friday, August 22, 2025
The Best Coen Brothers Movies, Definitively Ranked
For over 40 years and 20-plus (mostly) revered films, together and (lately) separately, no dudes abide quite like Joel and Ethan Coen. To mark the opening of Ethan Coen's lesbian noir ‘Honey Don't,’ we've ranked every Coen film—and if you disagree, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
gq-magazine.co.uk
Wrote about a beloved, once thriving industry in decline and why you’re all responsible for it. www.bkmag.com/2025/08/18/r...
"Ramen Weather" is a Construct. In NYC, it's Killing an Industry.
The "ramen weather" phenomenon is largely confined to the Northeast, and it’s badly stunting the growth of a once-thriving, now arguably in decline genre of cuisine.
bkmag.com
another solid Cuban Linx retrospective from @abebeame.bsky.social: www.okayplayer.com/rediscovered...
Rediscovered: Raekwon’s ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…’
Raekwon’s ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…’ became the standout album of the Wu-Tang Clan’s discography. Okayplayer reflects on the legendary ‘Purple Tape.’
okayplayer.com
This is a good deep dive on Meek. Being Philly all the way down to my bones means he reps the city and vice versa but it's known that his limitless talent is matched only by the fucking mess of a life he has outside the studio. Also he lost a rap beef to Drake, but mainly it's the other things.
🧢@abebeame.bsky.social · last yr.Profiled Meek Mill and discussed criminal justice reform, label bullshit, and you know who. www.complex.com/music/a/abe-...
Profiled Meek Mill and discussed criminal justice reform, label bullshit, and you know who. www.complex.com/music/a/abe-...
An Unfiltered Conversation With Meek Mill
We talked to Meek Mill about social media, Diddy rumors a...
complex.com
Saw Wayne move into a new stage in his career last night and considered the passage of time for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Lil Wayne Turned Madison Square Garden Into a Time Machine on His 'Tha Carter VI' Tour
The legendary MC took the stage in front of a sold-out crowd at the iconic venue for a generation spanning run through his extensive catalog
rollingstone.com