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I wanted to write about Rihanna this week—her Super Bowl pregnancy reveal, her red-riding-hood-at-Berghain attire, the sheer balls-out confidence of a 13-minute halftime performance without a single cameo from a former collaborator (I had…

At the 65th Grammy Awards, Harry Styles’s turntable plinth went the wrong way and his entire dance performance had to be done backwards without warning, leading to a low-level hum of unrehearsed-ness—but that’s not why we’re here. After…

Screaming banshees (of Inisherin), it’s Oscar nominations week and tongues are wagging about who’s been snubbed (spoiler, it’s nearly the entire population of Wakanda). The (hopefully) slap-free Academy Awards arrive in March, so we’re mere…

Last night’s Golden Globes were…eventful!…but the talk of the town still seems to be the rollout of Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare. Emerging details are delicious and moreish: Sibling fisticuffs! A frostbitten penis! Losing one’s virginity to…

Happy new year. It’s the 11th (pipers piping) day of Christmas, and the great fuck-it holiday season is coming to an end. A “fuck it!” mince pie. A “fuck it!” third martini. A “fuck it!” Uber to the depths of Brooklyn at 5 a.m. At the…

Happy “nepo” week to all who celebrate. At a time when we could be knee-deep in egg nog and grinding to “Carol of the Bells,” we’re instead asking who parented our most famous folk. The walls of our assumed meritocracy are crumbling as we…

The sun has set on the penultimate episode of our own personal World Cup, The White Lotus, and it seems as good a time as any to pull up a lounger and take stock. Where the first season felt like a tart commentary on class, race, privilege,…

Another day, another *checks notes* *checks notes again* satanic panic(!?). This week the internet lost its head at Balenciaga, accusing them of condoning, even glamorizing, sexual violence against children. Let’s recap the melee as briefly…

The World Cup is on in Qatar, and things are feeling pretty tense. Tempers are flaring and wads of money are being shredded because the country doesn’t have a brilliant track record with women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. I wish there were a…

It’s been a busy week, non? Many happenings are happening at the same time. The Crown is back with divorce, Diana, and the Paris Ritz. The mids are terming and Trump keeps teasing coming back, a bit like rerunning a TV show that gave half…