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Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of Thing, felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe Thing published ten issues between November 1989 and summer 1993. Zine cofounder Trent Adkins appears on the cover of the third issue, pictured here at lower left. Amber Huff In February 2021, dance-musi...

Pixel Grip: Jonathon Freund, Rita Lukea, and Tyler Ommen In the world of Chicago goth dance trio Pixel Grip, "the arena" is more than a literal venue where spectators gather to delight in competition—it refers to any context our society envisions as a zero-sum game, where no one can win without someone else losing. The bands sophomore album, Arena, proposes the club as a sanctuary. Over ten darkly electrifying tracks ("Alphapussy," "Dancing on Your ...