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Spelling Bee Champ Zaila Avant-garde Might Be The Most Interesting Person In The World

Spelling Bee Champ Zaila Avant-garde Might Be The Most Interesting Person In The World

After 93 years of National Spelling Bee competitions, a Black American student is walking away with the trophy for the first time ever. 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde made Spelling Bee history on Thursday when she correctly spelled “murraya.” Avant-garde won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after just two years of practicing […]

The Witch In Fear Street Part Two: 1978 Wants More Than Her Hand Back

The Witch In Fear Street Part Two: 1978 Wants More Than Her Hand Back

FEAR STREET PART 2: 1978 – (Pictured) BTS of SADIE SINK as ZIGGY. Cr: Jessica Miglio/Netflix © 2021 Spoilers are ahead. In Fear Street Part Two: 1978, the solution to breaking the Shadyside witch’s curse seemed so obvious. In hindsight, perhaps, a bit too obvious. The Netflix slasher film, inspired […]

How Oysters Became The It Food Of Re-Emergence Summer

How Oysters Became The It Food Of Re-Emergence Summer

Earlier this week, a heat wave blazing through Vancouver killed millions of mussels, snails, and clams; they were boiled alive in their shells. Meanwhile, all over Instagram, other bivalves met a different kind of fate: Oysters, glistening in half-shells, sat pretty on enviable beds of crushed ice. What makes oysters […]

Here’s How Many Brits Have A Side Hustle (& How Much They’re Earning From It)

It’s official: we live in a side hustle nation. According to new research, more than two-thirds (68%) of working Brits have some kind of secondary income. More women than men took on a lockdown side hustle, the research by 118 118 Money found, but men are earning more from them: […]

Pret’s Christmas Sandwich Is Back In Stores… Even Though It’s July

Pret‘s ever popular Christmas sandwich is back in stores this week, even though the festive season is still months away. The hearty club – which contains turkey with a port and orange cranberry sauce, plus herby pork stuffing, baby spinach, mayo and crispy onion – will be available from now […]

Katie Holmes’ Latest Athleisure Look Featured Birkenstocks & Low-Rise Sweatpants

Katie Holmes’ Latest Athleisure Look Featured Birkenstocks & Low-Rise Sweatpants

Mid-summer style is always a hassle. The weather is too hot and too humid to wear any fabric that might stick to your skin. But Katie Holmes has an outfit ready to battle the tricky July weather should you need to go outside.  On Thursday, the Dawson’s Creek actress was […]

The Olympics Don’t Care About Black Athletes. They Never Did.

The Olympics Don’t Care About Black Athletes. They Never Did.

In late June, sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson ran the 100m dash in just 10.86 seconds, quickly becoming a favourite to win the gold in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Even Michelle Obama took notice, complimenting Richardson on Twitter, and writing: “We are all so proud of you.” As fervent as support for […]

Andie MacDowell Reveals Her Natural Grey Curls At Cannes

Andie MacDowell Reveals Her Natural Grey Curls At Cannes

Over the past year, actress Andie MacDowell has let her signature dark brunette curls grow out naturally, gradually revealing a salt-and-pepper silver tone that’s the definition of elegant. This week MacDowell posed on the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival, debuting — for the first time publicly — her soft, […]

You’ll Soon Be Able To Buy The Contraceptive Pill In UK Pharmacies

The progesterone-only oral contraceptive pill (desogestrel 75 micrograms) will soon be available to women in the UK without a prescription. This comes after a reclassification of the progesterone-only pill by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which was authorised on 8th July. That means that this particular kind […]

The Uniqlo x Mame Kurogouchi Collab Has Big Sell-Out Potential

The Uniqlo x Mame Kurogouchi Collab Has Big Sell-Out Potential

Though the post-vax world promises to bring more optimistic days, there’s still a lot of comforts to be found in the loungewear we lived in during our year of lockdown. (I, for one, have had to clear entire drawers for the sweatsuits, silk pyjama sets, soft bralettes, and cotton undies […]