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April 1, 2026
‘Summer House’ Drama Has United Our Fractious Nation
With consensus reality fraying at the seams, the spectacle of hot Bravo stars betraying each other might be the only shared cultural reference point we have left, writes GQ columnist Chris Black.
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March 26, 2026
This Perfect 2000s Album Just Turned 25
GQ columnist Chris Black sheds a nostalgic tear for Dashboard Confessional’s emo landmark The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, released a quarter-century ago this month.
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March 19, 2026
At Celebrity Look-alike Contests, There are No Winners
As junior JFKs Jr. vie for look-alike supremacy on the streets of New York, GQ columnist Chris Black wonders why anybody would compete to be a Temu Chalamet, a Jeremy Allen Off-white, or a Fauxl Me...
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March 13, 2026
The One Airport Rule You Can't Break
GQ columnist Chris Black explains why the greatest gift you can give in the airport lounge is no conversation.
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March 6, 2026
Why Is Fitness-Class Music So Terrible?
They may know how to push you to a PR—but pass the aux to a trainer, and more often than not, your ears are in peril. GQ columnist Chris Black wonders if there’s a better way.
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February 26, 2026
Is Charleston, South Carolina the Greatest City in America?
The airport is fifteen minutes from downtown. The restaurants are on point. And this week, unlike New York, it wasn’t buried in snow. Can you blame GQ columnist and civic booster Chris Black for ge...
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February 6, 2026
Justin Bieber Shredded the Competition at the Grammys, Awards or No Awards
His guitar-and-boxers “Yukon” performance was a reminder that—even on Music's Biggest Night—less is sometimes more, writes GQ columnist Chris Black.
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January 23, 2026
Wilco's Sky Blue Sky Was a Music Festival Even Chris Black Could Love
The GQ columnist and longtime festival-experience skeptic checks into the Hard Rock for the fourth edition of Wilco's annual fest and winds up drowning his cynicism in the Riviera Maya.
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January 15, 2026
Is This New Show the Yellowstone of Brain-Dead Reality TV?
GQ columnist Chris Black sees shades of the Taylor Sheridan universe in an addictive Netflix program set in a very wealthy zip code with almost zero taste.
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