Issue 15: ENDINGS is here 🌝
PLUS: an end credit songs playlist, and an exclusive newsletter feature on Sex and the City and housing economics...
We just launched Issue 15!
Issue 15: ENDINGS is here 🌝
From enigmatic final scenes, to end credits songs, to happy endings in porn, this issue is all about cinematic endings — and concludes our special BEGINNINGS, INTERMISSION, and ENDINGS triple issue:
+ TORONTO: to pair with our Endings issue, join our co-founders Gabrielle Marceau and Sennah Yee for a special screening of a film all about endings: Southland Tales on April 13th at Paradise Theatre, hosted by Hear Me Out!
Playlist: End Credit Songs 🎶
For his feature on end credit songs, Anders Gatten and gathered some of In The Mood Issue 15’s contributors favourite exit tracks in a playlist:
Newsletter Feature
“There should be City-funded breakup housing”: Sex and the City and housing economics
by Love Jonson
The year is 2008. The global financial system has imploded, stoked by a million subprime mortgages catching flame. Wall Street is melting—unbeknownst to Miranda Hobbes, who, a short walk away, drags her toddling son across Chinatown in search of an apartment.
“Brady, see the Chinese writing?” she directs his eyes toward the sky. “New York Magazine says this is the new up-and-coming neighbourhood!” she squeals, blowing that old dog whistle for gentrification. “Look! White guy with a baby! Wherever he’s going, that’s where we need to be!”
In the years since this scene, Chinatown has fended off intense redevelopment pressure. The neighbourhood provided sanctuary when immigration laws prohibited Chinese people from coming to this country, and when those living here faced harassment in the streets and exclusion by white landlords. In recent decades, the neighbourhood has been buffeted by intense waves of capital flowing into the city. As prices rise around them, working-class Chinese immigrants and longtime Chinese-American residents have organized extensively to combat their own displacement. Not even Miranda would go searching for an apartment there today.
