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Giri Nathan

LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets attends a 2025 NBA Summer League game

Interviews

Let’s Unpack LaMelo Ball’s Sugary Abode

Veronica de Souza

Make It Nice

Make It Nice: A Big Bedroom, A Small Living Room, And A Dated Bathroom

A big empty top floor room with a fan and the make it nice logo over it

Make It Nice: Ceiling Fans And Tricky Layouts

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Lucy Bloom

A family group shot of three children, two women and a cigarette smoking man gathered around and standing on top of a car roof parked on an wide street, several houses in the background, America, circa 1925.

History

A People’s History Of Climbing On Cars

Drawing of an Interior: Atelier, 1857. Artist Anon. (Photo by Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Introducing: Make It Nice

Kelsey McKinney

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The Scorebug Snuggery: The Phillies Abandon “P00P”

Patrick Redford

Defector Reads A Book

The New Trend In Book Covers Is Old-Timey Animals

Barry Petchesky

British actor and singer Sting on the set of Dune, directed and written by David Lynch. (Photo by Nancy Moran/Sygma via Getty Images)

Wings Week

Sting’s Winged Briefs In ‘Dune’ Are Cinema’s Most Iconic Underpants

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - NOVEMBER 26: Zach Parise #11 of the Minnesota Wild plays against the New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center on November 26, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Zach Parise Designed A Hat

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