Click:heavy duty slide the drawer Clean beauty brand Beautycounter is known for a few things, like its safe makeup, this very pigmented lipstick, and its very passionate converts that turn into consultants. We can now confirm that Amy Schumer is a huge fan of the first, probably a fan of the second, and definitely friends […]
This week, several celebrities adopted a look that can best be described as “Terry Bollea chic” — getting extremely Mad at bloggers. Celebrities hating the press is nothing new. Frank Zappa argued that rock journalism was “People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who […]
Several weeks ago, I was given a small glass bottle filled with water, a vegetable glycerin preservative, and the subtle energetic imprint of seven flowers selected by my subconscious. I was told to put four drops of this mixture in my drinks at least four times a day. After a month or so, this ritual […]
In her new memoir Save Me the Plums, former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl delivers an intimate account of her tenure at the beloved food magazine, where she accomplished everything from publishing David Foster Wallace’s now-famous “Consider the Lobster” essay to cooking for rescue workers on 9/11. She also details an experience very few have had: […]
Recently Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted about his experiments with intermittent fasting: “I do a 22-hour fast daily (dinner only),” he wrote, “and recently did a three-day water fast. Biggest thing I notice is how much time slows down.” The subsequent chatter around Dorsey’s eating regimen focused on intermittent fasting, but really, this was a […]
President Donald Trump had a closed door meeting with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Tuesday. According to a statement from Twitter, the meeting was initiated by the president and intended to discuss “protecting the health of the public conversation ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections and efforts underway to respond to the opioid crisis.” Motherboard […]
On Sunday night, a screenshot began circulating on Twitter that appeared to show a person’s Facebook response to a potential roommate — Christine (a Capricorn). “Hey Christine!” the user wrote, “Sorry I haven’t responded earlier. My main concern is that you’re a Capricorn.” This was a problem, they explained, because their main goal is to […]
Eula Biss is best known for On Immunity, her 2014 book detailing the reasons people decide to vaccinate and why some people don’t. Reading it is still, to my mind, the best way to understand the mentality of anti-vaxxers. And yet over the course of a couple recent conversations with her, I noticed something that […]
Dear Polly, This the second time I’ve written anything in many years. The first time was about a month ago, when I tried to squeeze my entire life story into a single paragraph on a therapy clinic’s intake form. My husband and I were married five months ago. A lot of my family couldn’t make […]
Just over six months after its opening, the Playboy Club in New York City has reportedly fired half of its “Bunnies,” who had been hired to serve drinks and wait tables, and significantly slashed the remaining workers’ pay. A source insinuated to “Page Six” that management focused more on women’s appearances than their qualifications for […]