(Sub)Culture Features

Zi Faámelu was getting desperate. It was five days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five days since President Volodymyr Zelensky had declared martial law, and the 31-year-old musician, artist, and Instagram influencer knew she had to get out of Kyiv —and fast. She’d been trapped in her apartment, listening to …

The Bridgeport, Connecticut police department has opened a criminal investigation into the death of Lauren Smith-Fields, the 23-year-old woman who died in mid-December.On Monday, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled her death to be accidental by way of acute intoxication, due to the combined effects of fentanyl, promethazine, …

The coronavirus pandemic is entering its third year, and the United States still isn’t doing enough to track the virus. It’s not just a testing shortfall. The U.S. government is falling short on “genomic surveillance” — that is, sequencing enough tests in the right places at the right times in …

For decades, Victoria’s Secret was a mall lingerie giant. In recent years, however, the brand has fallen from grace as executives faced allegations of harassment, bullying, fat-shaming, and promoting a company culture of misogyny. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, between 2015 and 2020, the company’s sales dropped by more than $2 billion. …

Skateboarding’s second Olympic event, the park contest, wrapped up Thursday in Tokyo, with few of the favored competitors making it to the podium. In the women’s contest, two Japanese women and a half-Japanese skater riding for Great Britain took medals — none of them old enough to drink in a …

In 1976, Kathy Sullivan was finishing up her Ph.D. in oceanography when an intriguing, if somewhat far-fetched, opportunity presented itself: the chance to become an astronaut. Her expertise was in the geology of the deep-sea floor, a few hundred miles in the exact opposite direction of where a space flight …

Let us take a moment to consider those who have been impacted most by the pandemic. Not women, who are dropping out of the workforce like flies; not people of color, who are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and live in constant fear of becoming the victims of police violence; and …

In Deb Perelman’s recent New York Times op-ed, “In the COVID-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both,” she details the impossibility of parenting small children during the COVID-19 epidemic, writing, “We are not burned out because life is hard this year. We are …

In the week after the protests began, I rode my bike down to Harlem. This was a few days before the deranged commander in chief tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” in response to the dissent that had come, like those roosting chickens, to his front door. After …

This story was originally published in the June 11th, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone. KENT, Ohio — Just down the street from P. G. Sellman’s Tire & Appliance Store and Gas Station, close to the Cuyahoga River, the striped gate of a railroad crossing has lowered slowly, with dignity, until …