‘High Maintenance’ and the New TV Fantasy of New York
As the city is transformed by gentrification and inequality, comedies have begun depicting it as a place of magical connection.
As the city is transformed by gentrification and inequality, comedies have begun depicting it as a place of magical connection.
Willy Staley New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 15min Permalink
A profile of Tyshawn Jones, “one of the most exciting skateboarders in a generation.”
Willy Staley New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 20min Permalink
If Thrasher is Vogue for skaters, 53-year-old Jake Phelps is the sport’s Anna Wintour.
Willy Staley California Sunday Mar 2016 20min Permalink
From “Idiocracy” to “Silicon Valley,” the writer and director has established himself as America’s foremost chronicler of its own self-destructive tendencies.
Willy Staley New York Times Magazine Apr 2017 20min Permalink
Twenty-two years in, E-40 has extended his reign over the Bay Area rap landscape by returning to “making music the way he did back in the late ’80s: completely independently, selling his raps more or less directly to his fans.”
Willy Staley The Fader Jan 2017 20min Permalink
The absurd scale of McDonald’s’ economics suggests a company more like a commodity trader than a chain of restaurants.
At this volume, and with the impermanence of the sandwich, it only makes sense for McDonald’s to treat the sandwich as a sort of arbitrage strategy: at both ends of the product pipeline, you have a good being traded at such large volume that we might as well forget that one end of the pipeline is hogs and corn and the other end is a sandwich. McDonald’s likely doesn’t think in these terms, and neither should you.
Willy Staley The Awl Nov 2011 10min Permalink