Leo Reich strode onstage to the thudding beat of Hot in It,” by Tiésto and Charli XCX. His batwing-lined eyes gleamed, and he was dressed in a contour-molding MISBHV T-shirt and a pair of black short shorts whose white piping outlined his crotch. Grabbing a microphone stand and casting a mockbashful look at the audience, he explained, I didn’t have any time to change. I had to, like, run here straight from my dad’s worst nightmare.” It was a mild September evening at Earth Hackney, a venue in East London, and Reich was performing his standup comedy show, Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!” Shiny black zip-up boots endowed his steps with a peppy bounce. Td just like to introduce myself, for those of you who don't know me,” he said. m Leo. I’m queer.” There were whoops from the audience, and Reich approached several people who, perilously, had seats in the front row. Looking around, it seems like some of you guys’—he swept an arm in an arch gesture of inclusivity—‘“might a/so have a sexuality which is iconic.”
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QUARTET ISLAND
Mendelssohn on Mull celebrates chamber music away from urban pressures.
FIX YOU
The self-help positivity of Coldplay.
ILLUMINATIONS
Suzanne Jackson captures the transformative power of light.
RAT PACK
The classic rodent studies that foretold a nightmarish human future.
ROYAL TREATMENT
The unrivalled omnipresence of Queen Elizabeth IL.
WELL, WELL, WELL
Eating—and not-in the epicenter of hype diets.
NEWARK STATE OF MIND
Mayor Ras Baraka's reasonable radicalism.
DOOM SCROLLING
Social media and the teen-suicide crisis.
THE WORKER REVOLT
Harris and Walz try to stop blue-collar Americans from drifting to Trump.
THE CHIT-CHATBOT
Is talking with a machine a conversation?