Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. Can you believe that, despite the pieces I’ve written about getting old on the internet and turning 30, I’m still in my 20s? —Kate P.S.: Read the follow up to this piece, Hell hath no fury like a Millennial scorned. There’s a TikTok video by creator @nisipisa that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. It’s a stitch of Taylor Swift announcing the rerelease of Red in November.

I was maybe 13 or 14 the first time I ever heard someone talk about the Grateful Dead. Standing outside the Camp Chi dining hall, a cool girl a year older than me asked if I had ever been to a Dead show. I had not. In fact, I didn’t even know who or what they were. Based on the name, I figured they were a heavy metal band. “Oh my god, there’s nothing li…

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I wrote this back in 2013, but pulled it from the magazine it was due to run in, because they wanted me to focus much more on gay men. I told the editor that my research was unique, in that no female journalist had ever been undercover in a racket that focusses on lesbians rather than gay men, but he was insistent it could not just be about women. I want to publish it now because, I hope, it will enable those who believe that conversion therapy for same sex attracted people is the opposite of talking therapies and support for young people struggling with their sex.

Chicago natives Betty and Clarence Burke Sr. helped their five children Alohe Jean, Clarence Jr., Dennis, James, and Kenneth "Keni" form the The Five Stairsteps in 1958, with younger brother Cubie briefly joining the fold in the late-1960s. They were both a fascinating and uniquely talented familial act. Father Clarence Sr. was a skilled bass player, the group’s manager, and a detective for the Chicago Police Department. Several of the Burke children were also impressive musicians, with Keni following in his father’s footsteps and showing an early aptitude for the bass.