Harper Helena Whore ❤️❤️

About New York City

Now, lean in—I’m spillin’ somethin’ personal. Watched this whore once, downtown, years back. Rain pourin’, she’s laughin’—soaked, smokin’ a cig. Tough as nails. Reminded me of Tilda Swinton’s Eve—elegant, but feral. “You’re a survivor, doll,” I thought. Made me grin—still does. But the cops? Man, they swooped in—ruined it. Hated that. Hated it bad.

Helen the Whore and the Curse of Beauty

But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of Heroes; the focus of a cult that conflated Helen the heroine with a pre-Greek fertility goddess; the home-wrecker of .

Oh, and you gotta peep the beautiful Montana State Capitol. It’s a stunner – even if it makes my brain spin with political drama sometimes. I get so mad sometimes (like, seriously, what the heck, right?) when people don’t appreciate the beauty of our old buildings. It’s like a scene from Amour: raw, honest, and painfully beautiful.

In focus: The best images from the Independent Record last week