  'Something Extremely Bad Is Happening Here' Marcus Wheeler lived in a sun-bleached trailer just outside of Tempe, Arizona, but for a long time, he told classmates his home was actually across the street, in an upscale apartment complex. Once the lie was exposed, no one blamed him. How could they? His friends had supportive families, tidy suburban lives. Marcus had neither. His estranged mother lived in the Philippines and hadn't spoken to her son in more than a decade, and his father was a long-haul trucker who thought his son would benefit from a crash course in independence. Marcus was eighteen and alone.
  The 60+ Best Grooming Products for Men of 2020 In case it wasn't already abundantly obvious: Yes, being stuck inside for months on end did change some of the calculus of grooming in 2020. Rallying under the flag of "Who's Going to See It, Anyway?" we countered cabin fever with enthusiastic experimentation. We gave ourselves haircuts, we tried different facial hair, we painted our nails, we spent way more time on skincare. And thanks to all those endeavors with the new and novel, we reminded ourselves of an old standby: Grooming isn't always about quantity, it's about quality. And, hell, we had the time to find it. So, through extensive trial and error, we discovered updated essentials, revisited a few classics, and reimagined our routines from the ground up thanks to these winning products. Esquire Grooming Editor Garrett Munce brings you the products you need to look, smell—and feel—great right now. Plus! We got six of our famous friends to share the grooming product they can't live without.
 An Expert on Right Wing Extremist Groups Warns 'The Threat Is Escalating' Politics Editor Jack Holmes spoke with Kathleen Belew, a professor at the University of Chicago and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, about the growing threat of far-right paramilitary violence as the election approaches and the President of the United States seems to do everything except try to bring down the temperature. Along the way, Belew traces the movement's development from Waco, in 1993, to the president's message from the debate stage in September to the Proud Boys, one of the more prominent paramilitary outfits of the moment. Here, Belew offers a warning that the president may not have the power to "unring that bell" even if he wanted to, because these groups are defined, perhaps above all, by their opportunism.  Jimmy Page Is Still Practicing "I don't do face calls and all of that," says Jimmy Page. "Because I'm a creature of habit, I usually end up holding the phone to my ear as opposed to looking at the image." Fair enough. So a regular call it is between Alan Light and a chatty and affable Page, 76, who is currently riding out the pandemic at his home in Southeast England. The occasion is the release of the new photo collection Jimmy Page: The Anthology, which gathers hundreds of images spanning the career of this guitar colossus, from his days as an in-demand session musician up to his recent oversight of reissues of the Led Zeppelin catalogue and his participation in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Play it Loud" instrument exhibit. The twist is that the book (which was first published earlier this year as a very pricey signed limited edition) focuses on items from his personal archive—studio notes, stage costumes and, of course, gaggles of guitars and piles of musical gear. It's been years since we got new music from Page; most of his efforts in the 21st Century have focused on maintaining and burnishing Led Zeppelin's legacy. But when you've seen and done the things he has, you have to wonder what there is left to prove. "When I look back on it," says Jimmy Page, "it feels something like a charmed life." Read Light's full conversation with the legend here.
 'People Don't Understand How Hard We Work': Life Inside an L.A. Mansion Full of TikTok Influencers "The Clubhouse" is one of several so-called TikTok "content houses" established over the past years in Los Angeles. Part production studios, part talent agencies, these houses provide influencers with a lavish backdrop for the abundance of content they make each day and a business model for them to monetize it. A management company rents the house, fills it with comely, twenty-something social-media personalities, and then brokers sponsorship deals on their behalf (for a fee, of course). Then, like a kind of Gen-Z Real World, the residents collectively vie for the most valuable commodity in the influencer economy: people's attention. Those twenty-somethings? Millions follow them on social media, but those living together in the "Clubhouse"—including standout stars Mariana Morais and Kinsey Wolanski—say few really have a clue what goes down in a day. John McDermott spent a day inside the mansion to try to get a clue for himself.  Join Our Club. We'll Send You Something in the Mail. (It's a Magazine.) But it's not just a magazine. With a membership to Esquire Select, the aforementioned club, you get unlimited access to Esquire.com, including The Politics Blog with Charles P. Pierce. You get a monthly discount to some of our editors' favorite brands. You get a members-only, weekly newsletter highlighting the best of Esquire right now. And, if you act fast, there might even be a free gift in it for you.
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Sunday, October 25, 2020
‘Something Extremely Bad Is Happening Here’
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