The first time I visited Magic Jewelry to have my aura read, I told myself I was doing it as a joke. The tiny store…
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From 2014 to 2017, HBO’s The Leftovers built a cult following, based on its painful and gorgeous meditations of grief
We published many blogs this dreadful year, and you read a bunch of them. Here are the ones you read the most.
Samin Nosrat handles food as it should be—with pleasure. In her Netflix series, Salt Fat Acid Heat, she explores the…
It seems pointless to estimate the number of times I’ve wondered if I was speaking up enough. It isn’t enough,…
And now, a short tribute to the now-unemployed Trump staffers, all of whom have either been fired or resigned from…
For Bad Bunny, short shorts have, at times, been a point of contention. In a video published almost exactly one year…
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If years had celebrity doppelgängers, then 2018 is Bella Thorne.
This year was a big year for movies about pop and/or rock music. I wanted to say “...for rock musicals,” because I…
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The gods of music keep blessing us with more music than we can handle—visual albums, three-song EPs, music-video…
When the world hands you lemons, what do you do? Turn them into lemonade? Or light a lemon-scented candle and listen…
During a year that has felt at times like one unending root canal, one of the few pleasures that have made my…
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Boy oh boy were there a lot of bad wigs this year in movies and TV. Some were furry, some were orange, and almost…
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Every year is longer than the one that followed; also, sometimes it is shorter. In 2018, we survived whatever…
As far as I’m concerned, one of the last remaining reliable sources of joy on this planet is The Daily Mail’s…
In its second season, Big Mouth introduced a new devilish character: the looming, judgmental Shame Wizard. In the…
Sarah Jessica Parker had what’s been confirmed as the most orgasmic eclipse viewing experience today, on the…
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“Here the people rule,” said Gerald Ford after the fall of Nixon, as well as Jia Tolentino after the fall of…