Spoilers are ahead. From the moment Mare (Kate Winslet) starts interrogating Deacon Mark Burton (James McArdle), you sense that unlike her Easttown neighbours, she’s not all that impressed. In the aftermath of Erin McMenamin’s murder, the holy man has become a reassuring voice for the grieving town, but she looks […]
Update: Morrisons has confirmed that it will provide free period products to anyone who needs them in all 497 of its UK stores. Customers affected by period poverty can claim free sanitary products in any branch of Morrisons by going to the customer service desk and either asking for “Sandy” […]
With staycations growing in popularity and leaving big cities like London easier than ever before, the UK’s coastal towns are having a moment. In fact, the seaside town of Newquay in Cornwall has just been named the UK’s hottest property market by Rightmove. With this in mind, it’s definitely interesting […]
Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. Have your own Fertility Diary to share? Contact us, here. History: At 25, I was a young, single woman who wasn’t actively trying to conceive. Then I got an earth-shattering diagnosis that meant I had […]
Things Heard And Seen: (L-R) James Norton, as George Clare, Amanda Seyfried as Catherine Clare. Cr. Anna Kooris/NETFLIX © 2020. Things Heard & Seen, now streaming on Netflix, is many things: a ghost story, a tense family drama, a crime thriller, and a celebration of art history and spiritualism. All […]
The first week of May begins with an Aquarian quarter moon, an invitation to reflect on what, if anything, we’re ready to release as we follow the moon’s glow through the dark and toward a new cycle. Mercury moves under the stars of Gemini by Monday, but not before it […]
When I hear the word “Botox,” my brain can’t help but think of Jennifer Coolidge in A Cinderella Story, saying: “It’s the Botox! I can’t show emotion for another hour and a half.” It turns out that Botox may do much more than temporarily impact our ability to show emotions […]
When shelter-in-place orders marked the beginning of our “new normal,” our online behaviour began to shift with the times. Most notably, TikTok boomed like never before. After two years of steady rise, the Chinese-owned platform broke through the two-billion download mark in the first quarter of 2020, bringing millennials and […]
Dear Daniela, My hairdresser said I should stop using my plastic hairbrush and switch to a boar bristle brush, as it’s better for my hair. What exactly are the differences and benefits? Can a boar bristle brush do everything, or would I still need a different hairbrush for styling? Marta, […]
Often, the best stories are the ones based around real-life events. Whether traumatic or joyous, there is something richly satisfying about diving into a book that peels back the layers of intimate moments. Though there is most certainly a time and a place for fiction (see July’s reading list for […]
