You may have noticed some posts from our friends at the Strategist on the Cut. They’ll be dropping in every now and again, sharing their expertise on the basics you don’t have time to research and the weird and wonderful things you don’t yet know you need. This week we’ve unearthed a bunch of things that, even […]
If the Senate committee chaired by Joe Biden had taken sexual harassment seriously during Anita Hill’s testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, political leaders could’ve started a crucial conversation around sexual-violence epidemic decades ago, Hill writes in a New York Times op-ed. Because they did not, though, a necessary reckoning still must come — […]
After its annual fashion show posted its worst-ever ratings in November, Victoria’s Secret has reportedly decided to “rethink” the spectacle’s nearly two-decade tenure on network television. CNBC reports that L Brands CEO Les Wexner circulated a memo announcing that the networks no longer felt like the “right fit,” and that the underwear giant will be […]
One news item that hasn’t escaped my notice these past 72 hours is that Prince Harry likes being a dad; he’s made that abundantly clear. “As any father and parent would ever say, your baby is absolutely amazing,” he told reporters on Monday, “but this little thing is absolutely to die for, and I’m just […]
The Met Gala on Monday night marked the biggest fashion party of the year and celebrities brought the looks beyond the red carpet. Janelle Monae brought out a camp black dress with a beaded eye top for the Met after parties. Over in Paris, Golshifteh Farahani played with color, pairing a bright green dress and […]
After a couple hours of swiping on Bumble not so very long ago, I had exactly one decent match, a programmer in San Francisco. He had an honest face slung on two good cheekbones, and he posed with acceptable-enough props (guitar, martini, ’90s-era Macintosh). Naturally, I messaged him about the computer. After a back-and-forth about […]
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, research now suggests that kissing — the only good thing left — could transmit gonorrhea. The Washington Post reported on a study conducted by Australian researchers and published Thursday in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections that suggests kissing with tongue might lead to the spread of […]
Is there a free speech crisis in America? Some pundits would have you believe it’s raging on college campuses. Others, on the internet. But regardless of where you stand on the debate, it’s indisputably landed in Florida, where a man was recently arrested for having an “I Eat Ass” decal on his car. BuzzFeed reports […]
Jared “ProJared” Knabenbauer, a famous YouTube gamer with over a million subscribers, is at the center of a saga unfolding in great, anatomically explicit detail in the bowels of Twitter dot com. First, his wife, designer and cosplayer Heidi O’Ferrall tweeted that Knabenbauer had cheated on her with another gamer, Holly Conrad, a revelation that […]
Click:glitter cannon June Diane Raphael wasn’t stressed about the coffee stain on her cream jumpsuit. She’d spilled her cup while getting into the car that brought her uptown to meet me at the Regency Bar & Grill, but Raphael practices something she calls “radical acceptance.” Fans of the actress/comedian/writer/producer are familiar with her position of […]