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In honour of National Fitness Day 2023, we spoke to experts about why exercise is a key piece of your happiness puzzle – and how it can help with brain fog
Continue ReadingIn honour of National Fitness Day 2023, we spoke to experts about why exercise is a key piece of your happiness puzzle – and how it can help with brain fog
Continue ReadingAdele may have dropped a bombshell with just one word at her Las Vegas residency on Saturday. Entertainment Tonight reported that during a portion of the show where Adele took audience questions, one attendee asked her if she could marry her. Adele responded, “You can’t marry me, I’m straight, my love. And my husband’s here […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a morning like any other on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At the crammed outdoor cafés, boozy brunch cocktails slosh onto the sidewalk, clutched by young women with nail art and crop tops who seem to be in a perpetual gossip download. As whispers of Timothée Chalamet sightings and Hinge ghosts creep down […]
Continue ReadingYorgos Lanthimos reteams with his Favourite muse Emma Stone and screenwriter Tony McNamara for a lavish, lewd romp through a steampunk vision of Europe in this cheeky, surprisingly heartwarming adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s cult novel. The bright but poverty-stricken Max McCandless (Ramy Youssef) wants nothing more than to become a doctor and make something of […]
Continue ReadingLook, everyone is tired. And I get it: What I’ve learned from repeated attempts at 4 A.M. writing binges is that sleep deprivation does not nurture a creative mind, no matter how brilliant and original an idea might seem while overly caffeinated under the glow of a SAD lamp. That said, many of us creatives […]
Continue ReadingLauren Beukes is used to living multiple lives. Born in Johannesburg, she’s since worked out of Cape Town, New York, Chicago, and (currently) London. She’s been a journalist, a scriptwriter, a documentarian, and—most famously—an award-winning novelist with a penchant for darkly speculative tales of strange science and distorted cities. In her latest novel, Beukes is […]
Continue ReadingIn Painkiller, Netflix’s new opioid epidemic drama, West Duchovny isn’t portraying a real person. But in a sense, she is. Her role of Shannon Schaeffer, an eager young sales rep for Purdue Pharma, is fictionalized but based on the real experiences of representatives who sold OxyContin to doctors. What’s also real is the harm they […]
Continue ReadingOlivia Rodrigo dropped the second single from her album Guts, “Bad Idea, Right?,” and its lyrics don’t play subtle: The song is about Rodrigo justifying hooking up with an ex-boyfriend. Which ex, however, is less clear. While Rodrigo has been romantically linked to Joshua Bassett, Zack Bia (the likely subject of her first Guts single […]
Continue ReadingR. Eric Thomas is here now. Only, he’s still sussing out what “here” means. No one can fault him: Our modern understanding of “here,” in this pandemic-hardened, hyper-digital, increasingly isolated era, leans heavily on the nebulous end of the abstraction spectrum. After the success of his bestseller Here For It, the humor writer (and former […]
Continue ReadingLike countless moms at the start of summer vacation, Ciara corralled her kids into the car in search of a fun outdoor activity. The difference is that when you’re a megastar, you don’t always run for the nearest swing set—instead, your playground is a photo shoot for Gap. “You know that saying, ‘You plan and […]
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