The Real Reward of All These Celebrity Lookalike Contests
Do you look like someone famous? Would you like $50 or £50 or €50? Of course you would. Just before Halloween, a zillion Wonkas descended on Washington Square Park for …
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Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud
Don’t look back in anger—Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers—Liam and …
As ‘Sex and the City’ Finds New Fans, Is Carrie Bradshaw Finally Being Redeemed?
Carrie Bradshaw—every millennial’s beloved New York stalagmite—is reaching new audiences this month, now that Sex and the City has Manolo-clacked its way onto Netflix. (I feel like Lenny Kravitz saw …
Why Do Environmental Stunts Irk Us So Much?
I’m sitting at my desk, watching footage of two people throwing soup at the Mona Lisa, and I don’t really know how to feel. On Sunday at the Louvre, environmental protesters …
I’m Over Wellness. Long Live the January Burger
Hello, hungry, how is this incredibly un-jolly month treating you? January is always inexorably attached to the idea of rebalancing, of equilibrium-ing our disparate parts, of reconnecting our connective tissues. …
Why We Still Can’t Stop Talking About ‘Saltburn’
Dead relly, dead relly, dead relly. As we jingle all the way back from the holiday season, the embers of Saltburn—Emerald Fennell’s hysterically bleak tale of money, class, and (spoiler …
An Ode to the Ludicrously Capacious Year of 2023
The rapscallion that was 2023 is finally coming to an end, a sage reminder that time marches forward no matter what miracle serums we’re currently face-slathering. Before we new year, new …
We Officially Know Too Much About Will and Jada Pinkett Smith—But We’ve Also Asked for It
Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth! In the weeks leading up to (and days following) the release of her heal-all memoir, Worthy, we’ve learned much about Jada …