Brock Colyar
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New York, United States
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Past articles by Brock:
Do Those Free Panties Make You Feel Good About Yourself?
Parade, the social-justice undies brand, tries to go mainstream and still be cool. → Read More
Richie Akiva Is No Longer the King of Nightclubs, Okay?
Richie Akiva, 46, has been a fixture of the bottle-serviced and model-infested end of Manhattan nightlife since the late 1990s. Now, after his Meatpacking club 1Oak closed during COVID, he’s been hired by the Ned, a new members-only club in Nomad. → Read More
Of Course There’s Now a Dimes Square Reality Show
The Come Up, which premieres in September on Freeform, is not so much The Real Housewives of Dimes Square as it is an upbeat “unscripted” docuseries about six Gen-Z New Yorkers with their hustle on. We get to know the cast. → Read More
What’s a Girl to Do Next?
“I like to hold a lot of plates, but I also am really cognizant of putting things down before they break,” says Tommy Dorfman, breakout star of YA series ‘13 Reasons Why,’ of her aspiring multi-hyphenate-ness. “I know no other way to be, frankly.” → Read More
The Monkeypox Vaccine Hunger Games Are On
At a rally in New York City protesting the government’s response to the monkeypox outbreak, which for many men who have sex with men, has been the entire topic of conversation for over a month. That, and how to get vaccinated against it. → Read More
They, Then and Now
Asking for pronouns has become a social standard. Who is it serving? → Read More
Passed Over at the Easter Orgy
One night at NSFW (the New Society for Wellness), a members-only sex club in Tribeca founded by Bronx native Daniel Saynt. The sex party was in celebration of Easter and the launch of the NSFW’s own cryptocurrency, $LOVER. → Read More
Ocean Vuong’s Thesis of Himself
At 33, Ocean Vuong is probably the most accomplished poet of his generation. The balladeer for the sensitive queer has a metaphor for everything and a new book of poems, “Time Is a Mother.” → Read More
One Night in the Diplo Straightosphere
A very straight Sunday night out at a Diplo show at the new outer-space-themed midtown megaclub Nebula. Just imagine Murray Hill meets Miami by way of bridge and tunnel in a Red Bull–sponsored UFO. Cara Delevingne makes a surprise appearance. → Read More
Marry Me (at the Club)
On Valentine’s Day, are u coming? went to a maybe-fake wedding, officiated by the heiress Ivy Getty and starring best man Frankie Jonas, at the Jane Hotel in Greenwich Village. Afterward it heads to Dion Lee’s fashion week after party at the Palace. → Read More
Meg Superstar Princess Wants to Be 2022’s Edie Sedgwick
A night out partying and bar-hopping in the East Village with Meg Superstar Princess, a 24-year-old photographer, stylist, self-described “ugly hot fashion girlie,” and “indie sleaze” aesthete known for her blog Le Hipster Portal. → Read More
Thank God for Julia Fox
In the course of two holiday weeks, Julia Fox, the Uncut Gems actress and downtown New York darling, has publicly dragged the father of her child on Instagram, and then, on New Year’s Eve, began a whirlwind romance with Kanye West in Miami. → Read More
‘Back That Azz Up,’ Comrade (at Least 6 Feet)
As Omicron took over New York, are u coming? went to a party at the Dumbo loft owned by Verso Books, a longtime gathering place for city socialists. The event itself was hosted by ‘Lux,’ a socialist feminist magazine founded earlier this year. → Read More
Tripping ’Til 10 a.m. With Hot Psychonaut-Therapist Mommy
are u coming? spends a night with “Gloria”: a 40-something, sailor-mouthed Brooklyn mom who works as an “underground therapist” in the psychedelics space. She takes us to after-parties for Horizons, a long-running New York psychedelics conference. → Read More
I Go To an Actual Frat Party
Are u coming? follows two sorority sisters, both international students from Barnard College and Columbia University, to an off-campus fraternity party in Morningside Heights. → Read More
My Mingle With the Post-App Singles
In order to combat dating app “swipe fatigue,” Randa Sakallah created a Substack, called Hot Singles, where she posts weekly personal ads for young singles in New York. This week, the Cut went to her in-person singles bar party in Williamsburg. → Read More
Out With Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez, AOC’s Hot Li’l Bro
Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez is a musician, artist, and former real-estate agent who turned to a career of progressive advocacy work after his sister Alexandria’s election in 2018. For are u coming? he took the Cut to a rave he hosted in Ridgewood. → Read More
It’s ‘It’-Girl Night at Kaitlin Phillips’s Apartment
Kaitlin Phillips is a both a publicist and a writer, but it’s her provocative Twitter that has made her in-the-know famous for a certain kind of New York media and/or art person. She invited the Cut to a “girls’ night” at her apartment. → Read More
Blockchain Bros and Crypto Socialites Came to Party
For this week’s ‘are u coming?’ the Cut went to an after-party for a cryptocurrency conference in New York, hosted by the company Delphi Digital at Bogart House. Partygoers spent the evening chatting NFTs, networking, and plundering the open bar. → Read More
When Your Met Gala After-Party Is a Pregame for Rihanna’s
Olivia Rodrigo, Symone, Billie Eilish, Troye Sivan, Lorde, and more celebrities let loose after the Met Gala. Kinda. → Read More