Lush has decided to leave four major social media platforms until they “take action to provide a safer environment for users”. On Friday 26th November, the brand deactivated its TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat accounts in all 48 countries in which it operates. In a press release posted on its […]
Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last dollar. Today: a communications coordinator who makes $67,000 per year and spends some of her money […]
I just can’t stop thinking about the new season of Love Life. More specifically, I can’t stop thinking about William Jackson Harper in the new season of Love Life. Equal parts relatable and chaotic, the actor’s portrayal of newly single Marcus Watkins will frustrate you to no end — but […]
Digital Illustration of Planet Neptune Ah, Neptune, the Planet of Illusion, Deception, and Dreams. For the past five months, this planetary body has been in retrograde, which means it’s been appearing to move backwards through the sky. Retrograde can be a scary term, but Neptune’s backwards dance is more subtle […]
Whether or not you know what a Jellicle cat is should not stop you from watching these movie musicals. The kind of musicals that will make you want to spontaneously break into song, sure, but also fall in love, dance in the rain, buy a rundown Grecian hotel, start a […]
The photographer Irina Werning has been travelling her native Argentina in search of long-haired women to take pictures of since 2006. From the sprawling cities of Buenos Aires and Córdoba to the indigenous communities in the country’s rural north, she stages ‘long hair competitions’ to find those with the longest […]
Growing up is hard to do. Before “adulting” — that is, clumsily impersonating our role models and pretending we have our lives together — became a buzzword, we “came of age.” The action is still the same: staying out too late and trying to “find ourselves,” or building a new […]
A great crime show has a twisted and charming reliability: Who doesn’t love the intrigue of a heinous fictional crime, with the promise that it will be neatly resolved within an hour? The best crime shows add a little more nuance. The Wire isn’t a series about choosing sides — […]
“How to say ‘coat’ in Tibetan” I googled with my phone brightness turned all the way down. The results were few, and the frustration quickly turned to shame that I had forgotten in the first place, so I just sat quietly in my grandmother’s company, gesturing that I liked her […]
Super Sale Alert: Get 20% off sitewide during the Glossier Black Friday sale! No promo code required. As the big day inches closer – ahem, that would be Black Friday — we’ve been hard at work reporting on the need-to-know sales that are actually worth whipping out your credit card for. One […]
