This year, YouTube is trying something new: a 24-hour, gamified three-part interactive livestream called “Escape2021.” Like YouTube Rewind, the ill-fated annual video event that preceded it,...
It’s hard to argue there was a more important — and surprising — musician in 2021 than Olivia Rodrigo. She went from relative unknown to complete...
White saviors have been called out for decades, but in 2012 the descriptor sprinted around Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and the media after Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole...
If you read tabloids or lifestyle magazines, chances are that you’ve heard at least a few horror stories about accidents and injuries linked to sex toy...
It’s hard to shock Collin Williams, a volunteer moderator for r/RoastMe, a comedic insult forum with 2.3 million members. But about a year ago he was...
In an ideal world, we’d all get weekly massages, with bonus sessions on days we’re extra tense, tired, or sore. But with the average appointment costing...
HBO Max’s beautiful new miniseries, Station Eleven is a solid adaptation of the novel by Emily St. John Mandel. While it makes some big changes, it...
Apparently, the pandemic-induced time distortion that defined 2020 didn’t get the memo about the new calendar year. Looking back, the events of 2021 turned out to...
I have a confession: I’m a tab hoarder. My days online are spent digitally skipping from one tab to the next. I open new tabs, filling...
2021 gave us some truly fantastic films and TV shows, but it also gave us a ton of specific onscreen moments to obsess over. We highlighted...
