Charli D’Amelio is a new kind of social media marvel in that she’s, at the heart of it, a teenager from Connecticut who only joined TikTok in May 2019 with a video of her lip-syncing next to a friend. Nineteen months later, D’Amelio has a digital fanbase roughly the size […]
Do you love sweeping period dramas and romances, but sometimes find the oeuvre a touch too subdued and chaste, especially compared to your usual premium cable or streaming content fare? (Like, enough with the repressed feelings and lingering stares, already.) Well, Netflix’s “Bridgerton” … Continue reading
Promising Young Woman, Laverne Cox’s stunning new film, is a lot of things— a feminist manifesto, a bubble-gum hued revenge fantasy, a twisted dark comedy. But mostly, it’s a movie about the ways in which the world fails women. It’s about how trauma festers and haunts, living in our bodies […]
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2020/10/17: Breonna Taylor’s mother Tamika Palmer speaks during the National State of Emergency Get Out the Vote Rally organized by UntilFreedom in New York City. About 200 people attended the rally among them the Families of Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake who encourage New Yorkers […]
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a dressing-up box. As a child with a penchant for playing dress-up, it was a pretty standard affair: a white wooden box filled with striped T-shirts for piratical purposes, and twinkly black nylon and pointed hats for witchy occasions. More princess-style […]
It’s funny how the itch to go blonde (or blonder) can sneak up at the most inopportune times, like during a global pandemic when many of us are stretching the weeks between salon visits. Still, here we are, sitting at home and mentally preparing for the long winter ahead, craving […]
The galactic core area of the Milky Way over Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta with the pairing of giant planets from summer 2020. Jupiter is the bright object at centre, with Saturn dimmer to the left (east) of Jupiter. In 2020 the two planets were close together in the summer […]
With romance the last thing on anyone’s mind, fielding pitying questions from smug marrieds is not what we need ever – let alone in the middle of a global pandemic. Luckily, author Lucy Vine has a wealth of witty comebacks to help you navigate Zoom party season as a singleton… […]
We grill our favourite people on the books that changed their lives… As part of our new Shelf Life interview series, we’re speaking to some of our favourite names to find out which books they truly treasure – the ones that have shaped them into the people they are. Our […]
We grill our favourite people on the books that changed their life… Photo by Bartek Szmigulski As part of our new Shelf Life interview series, we’re speaking to some of our favourite names to find out which books they treasure – the ones that have shaped them into the people […]
