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There’s a certain kind of artist who doesn’t announce themselves with arrival. They accumulate. They circle their own sound for years. Sometimes across countries, careers, and identities, until one day the voice they’ve been searching for stops feeling like something they’re chasing and starts feeling like something they’re finally willing to trust. Laura Goodstone lives in that space now. She is singing like someone who finally stopped holding back.
There’s a certain stillness in the struggle, an unspoken strength in doing what’s hard, in showing up when your energy wanes, and in choosing persistence over ease, day after day. There’s a kind of quiet fight in pushing yourself further, in showing up even when you’re tired, in choosing discipline over comfort again and again. Sophie Spurn carries that into every movement. It’s not aggressive. It’s intentional. And somehow, that makes it even stronger.
For Shaw Jones, boxing started as a way to survive bullying. One fight inside a Tennessee prison became a memory he never forgot. He still remembers the sound of the doors. Heavy steel doors closing behind him one by one as he walked deeper into a maximum-security prison in the rural South. He was fourteen years old. Most teenagers spend their evenings worrying about school or friends. That night, Shaw was walking past razor wire, armed guards, and watchtowers on his way to a boxing match. It sounds unbelievable now, which is part of the reason he decided to tell the story.
Perfumery requires quietude, an intimacy that cannot be rushed. It does not arrive fully formed; it blooms, shifts, unsettles. It requires patience and restraint, a willingness to learn its language before attempting to master it. In that sense, Sol Romero’s expansion into scent is not a pivot but a widening of her artistic language. An act of crossing boundaries, a reminder that creativity cannot be confined to the forms that first made it visible.
Steve Schlam’s love of words began in the public libraries of Brooklyn, a passion he carried through life in cities across the U.S. and Mexico. An actor as well as an author, he brings the same attention to character and language to both stage and page, honed further while earning a Master’s in Creative Writing under Joseph Heller.
His novel, The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane, follows a 607-pound wrestler at the end of his life as he revisits triumphs, failures, and unfulfilled dreams—including a lifelong wish to see a butterfly sanctuary in Greece. For Herschel, the butterfly embodies hope, transformation, and the transcendent peace he has long been seeking.