(Santa Fe, NM) - When a cozy and intimate inauguration happens in the Capitol rotunda, it will be the most co-branded in history. Elon, Mark, Sam, Sundar, and Jeff will be there. So will the TikTok CEO and Apple’s Tim Cook. All made millions in donations to Trump’s inauguration fund, interesting now that outdoor activities are safely free of the unwashed masses (slush fund 2.0)! No more crowd sizes to potentially offend Monsieur, the Capitol rotunda his temporary country club / television studio; the cumulative in-rotunda wealth will be immense, each CEO representing their brand front and center for a global broadcast audience. But the Broligarchy It Girls’ dance with fascism is already ugly.

(Paris, France) - Voice teacher Karen Nimereala first came to our attention through a friend in 2019. Classically-trainer and a former opera singer herself, some of Ms. Nimereala’s longtime clients include pop music icons Sting and Mylène Farmer. Prior to flying to Paris to see Ms. Farmer’s landmark residency, a friend mentioned that they had a social media connection to “Karen, Mylène’s voice teacher…did you know she was an opera singer?” A longtime fan of Ms. Farmer, this information had somehow eluded me…

We discovered London-based artist Claudillea Holloway by accident. Like many things these days, it started on Instagram. While scrolling through the stories of friend and tenor Elliott Paige, a video of Claudillea performing an operatic cover of The Rolling Stones’ Paint It Black appeared. Given OI’s love of all things that move the dial for opera, we literally fell out of our chair, screaming…