“There was a book — Italo Calvino’s fantastical, metaphorical “Invisible Cities” — and Johnny Fantastic had a plan: to construct a “sound creation” of the images of the first chapter. If you want to know what the work of an Italian fabulist reconstructed as experimental electronic pop sounds like, then Stronger Sex — the D.C. duo of Fantastic and Leah Gage — is for you.”
“When World Wrestling Entertainment star Sasha Banks started watching wrestling as a child, her favorite wrestler was Eddie Guerrero, one of the most charismatic, creative and technically gifted wrestlers of all time. Her options for a favorite female wrestler were more limited.
“At that time, there were great, athletic women that would have matches that would be two or three minutes long. Or bikini contests,” she recalls. “As a little girl, at 10 years old, to tell your mom you want to be in the WWE . . . she doesn’t really want to support that dream you have.”
“There were two moments from Rico Nasty’s Wednesday night show at the Fillmore Silver Spring that tell you all you need to know about the Largo, Md.-born rapper. There was the time late in the show when she demanded the sold-out crowd open up an “all-girl mosh pit” and “just have fun.” The other was earlier in the show, when she brought out her 2-year-old son, Cameron, and held the bewildered toddler on her hip while she rapped. “This is for all my young mamas,” she told the audience. “Don’t let ’em tell you what you can and can’t do.”
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