People & culture
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Let’s Be Yearny: What Celibacy Taught Me about Sexual Desire
[ad_1] Asking a celibate guy for advice on intimacy feels, to many, like asking a vegetarian to judge a barbecue competition. But that assumption says more about our cultural scripts than it does about celibacy. In the ’60s, the sexual liberation movement argued that we needed romance and sex to be happy but that sex…
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The genius of The Sopranos’ most shocking episode
[ad_1] On his podcast Talking Sopranos, Michael Imperioli, who played Christopher Moltisanti, said he believes Mencken’s quote reflects Chase’s attitude towards consumer culture. This is at its most prominent in Members Only, when Carmela forgives Tony after he buys her a new car, which she rubs in the faces of her friends Ginny Sacrimoni (Denise…
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I Could Never Afford an Executive Assistant—Until Claude Became Mine
For as long as I can remember, I’ve watched CEOs glide through their days while someone else held the wheel. The executive assistant wasn’t just an employee. She was the quiet architect of their entire existence. She knew the calendar better than they did. She spotted the money moves before they did. She turned raw…
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Mutant Murder Most Foul! Hellfire Gala Interrupted By Myster…
[ad_1] The X-Men’s Hellfire Gala, mutantkind’s biggest—and sometimes deadliest—celebration, is back for another drama-filled night of mystery, betrayal and Omega level fashion in X-Men: The Hellfire Murder #1, hitting stands in July. As is tradition, X-Men: The Hellfire Murder #1 will be written and drawn by a spectacular lineup of current X-Men creators including Jed…
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AI Is Here.
How to Adopt, Adapt, and Advance I’m 60 years old. And I’m just getting re-started. That’s not a line I expected to be writing at this point in my life. Most people my age are thinking about winding down, wrapping up careers, simplifying, preparing for what comes next. But something unexpected happened to me over…
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Chilli’s Glass House
You Might Be Living In, Too There’s a moment you probably know. Someone you admired does something that makes you sit back and go, huh. Not shock. Not quite anger. More like recognition. Like the thing you’d suspected but could never name just walked in and took a seat. That’s what happened when Chilli’s receipts…
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Trailer: MUBI Unveils Award-Winning Documentary My Undesirab…
Meet the women at the center. Ksyusha keeps filing stories while her fiancé sits in prison. Anna hosts everyday acts of defiance on air while shielding her daughter from the threats that follow her home. Sonya records her podcast in a stripped-bare apartment, no decorations, nothing to distract from the work or the fear. Alesya…
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How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Ma…
[ad_1] It takes about five hours to drive from Düsseldorf to Hamburg on the Autobahn. During that stretch, you can listen to Kraftwerk’s album Autobahn seven times — or if you prefer, you can loop its eponymous opening song thirteen times. For it was “Autobahn,” more so than Autobahn, that changed the sound of music around…
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If Pixar’s Hoppers Is Propaganda, Then Maybe It’s Propaganda…
[ad_1] If money talks, then Hoppers is shouting. The movie currently holds the number one spot at the box office, having earned over $240 million so far. Despite having received its share of rotten tomatoes from people who tout it as propaganda, Hoppers‘ strong box office performance (and critical acclaim) could be a subtle hint…
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Blind Rage
You scroll at 2 a.m., thumb heavy, eyes burning from the blue glow. A post drops—Jay-Z’s name surfaces again, tangled in the latest swirl of old accusations that already collapsed under their own weight. The lawsuit from late 2024, the one claiming something unthinkable from 2000, got withdrawn in early 2025 after the accuser admitted…