Benson Lee would like to know how corporate America can support street art without exploiting the street artist. For instance, he’ll tell you that he’s just plain fed-up with what’s happened to hip-hop. He hates bling. And it’s not because he doesn’t understand cultural movements.
Turns out he understands them all too well. So well, he’s [...]

The following is a re-release of Perry Brass’s interview, run in February in PDF format.
UM: The LGBT community recently celebrated the life of activist and revolutionary Jack Nichols with the release of his biography, written by Louis Campbell. You knew Jack personally. Some sources go so far as to suggest that Jack successfully petitioned the APA [...]

Scofield: A Man Greater Than the Sum of His Parts
by Christopher de la Torre, UM Editor
I hadn’t known Stewart for long, but by the second email exchange I had already found him to be exquisitely open-minded and creative to the bone. According to his own words, he didn’t tolerate stupidity very well, nor superficiality, nor [...]

Even though some of his best work may be in black and white, street artist Bobby Hill’s past is probably as colorful as it comes: bumping into Andy Warhol at a Michael Jackson concert; accommodating rap artist Jay-Z with an art piece; illustrating for Slam Magazine (the first publication to marry hip-hop culture with basketball) [...]

When people see a Skyler Chen for the first time, the reaction is either hot or cold. There’s no in between. So when someone tells you they like his work, they mean it. Chen is about to explode, so if you haven’t had the chance to see (or buy) one of his pieces, the Molecule [...]

Edwin Vazkez is about to appear in what Rabbid Rabbit is calling its most diverse issue ever. But diversity isn’t anything new to this artist. Being of a mixed latin background and growing up in what is perhaps the most diverse city on the planet, Vazkez fuses old world cues with a modern sensibility to [...]

What is age and longevity, and how do our histories, memories, records of failures and accomplishments, loves and hurts, past passions and hatreds, affect them? Will jettisoning the past increase your ability to live longer without the burdens of memory? And what do we become without a past, or a past that is only manufactured [...]

Whit Honea is a dad and a damn good writer.
Rumor has it that Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 during the day while taking care of his kids. Could this Californian be conjuring up the next great thriller?
While his latest is served up cold, ”Mountains from White Hills” somehow manages to heat up the pages of Urban Molecule. A few words.
UM: [...]

It’s time for the latest THINKTANK interview. Kevin Kopelson and Bob Mendoza talk about sex, David Sedaris, Roland Barthes, and their late collaboration, “The Happy Wanker.” Don’t expect a G rating. This discussion with UM editor Christopher de la Torre gets down and dirty.

“…I had a great painting studio across from the Chelsea Piers. It [...]

Hey gents. Ever think about how you pee? What goes through your head when you’re standing at a urinal in a public restroom? Reading the paper on the pot at home? Irreverent as it may sound, “going to the bathroom” might be one of the most important things you do all day, and we’re not [...]