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Goodbyes in tides: Grief, memory, and the music of Sufjan Stevens

In the echoes of Carrie & Lowell, grief unfolds in quiet waves, carrying memory, meaning and forgiveness.

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Childfree, but not care-free: What I learned from a parenting book

A parenting book gave unexpected lessons in healing, empathy and how to show up better for the children around me and the parents doing their best.

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What if smart isn’t enough? Rethinking merit in a broken system

Michael J. Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? is resonating in Indonesia, where many already sense that the meritocracy system is broken.

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Smashing nostalgia: The Pumpkins bring grunge back to Jakarta

Fifteen years later, The Smashing Pumpkins returned to Jakarta with a set list that spanned their entire discography, loud, emotional and melancholic without the infinite sadness.

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K-pop royalty in Jakarta: G-Dragon’s comeback tour hits different

From surreal stagecraft to soft confessions, the Indonesian leg of G-Dragon’s Übermensch World Tour gave fans the legend they missed and a glimpse of the man they’d never seen before.

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Seventeen, ‘Right Here’: The concert that made me a CARAT

I walked into Seventeen’s concert a casual listener; I walked out swept up in the energy and devotion of a fandom for 13 performers who put on the best live performance I’ve ever seen.