Where I’ve been and of course the “Bucket List”
Seven weeks into my second round of pottery classes, I decided that I hated pottery. The realisation came after yet another lesson where I sat, frustrated, as my instructor taught me once again how to pull up the sides of my lopsided pot; yet another class where I failed to […]
Mare of Easttown was one of 2021’s buzziest TV shows. For seven episodes it kept us gripped and working through theories as Pennsylvania police detective Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet) investigated the murder of a teenage mother while trying to keep her own life from tearing at the seams. Winslet’s title […]
She was 32 and looked just like every other woman that had ruined my life. I know this because when my friend Olivia joined us outside of a vibrant bar on Metropolitan Avenue in New York, she leaned into me, giggling, as my date was in line for the bathroom […]
In recent months you’ve probably seen the word “mid” on TikTok a lot. It seems to be popping up all the time in videos, captions and comments. And once you start using it in your own conversations, you may find yourself unable to stop. That’s because “mid” feels like the […]
Editor’s note: This article contains minor spoilers for the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up. Since debuting on Netflix on 24th December, Don’t Look Up has become one of the most talked-about titles of this weird limbo period between Christmas and New Year (which is a great time for TV, tbh). […]
Over the past few years, we’ve pretty much all become fastidious about being clean. From never leaving the house without a bottle of hand sanitiser to disinfecting our mobile phones after a night out, even those who previously weren’t that bothered about bacteria are on board. Are your hands really […]
“Does anyone out there look like me?” It’s a question shouted multiple times a day into the void of the 120,000+ member Facebook group ‘Find My Doppelgänger/Twin Stranger’. Everyone in this group, populated by a global community, is in search of their lookalike. From celebrities to regular folk like you […]
When it comes to sharing viewing figures for its original content, Netflix is gradually getting more transparent. In November it even launched a new website that reveals its top ten titles each week. At the moment, though, Netflix only releases specific viewing figures on a sporadic basis. This tends to […]
Welcome to Love Like This?, a romance column where we, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Ineye Komonibo, revisit some of the most romantic — or not, in hindsight — scenes in Black film and TV history. For five seasons, we’ve watched Issa Dee (Issa Rae), our homegirl in our head who has […]
If 2021’s trend cycle has proved anything, it’s that, in fashion, everything always eventually comes back in style. From the industry’s penchant for high-waisted jeans and biker shorts made popular in the ‘90s to the resurgence of wallpaper floral prints a lá the 1970s, nostalgia is currently all the rage. […]
