Jackie lied and Rolling Stone fucked up so tremendously, and those stats about how many women “get raped” “in their lifetime” seem crazy, anyway—so shocking that, like the UVA lede, there’s something suspicious about the whole matter. No decent parent would even send their daughter to college if “rape culture” was…
GLAMOROUS BABY OMG
One winter evening I was walking to the subway when I got a 270-word text that began, “Jia. Hi. It’s Elizabeth Wurtzel.”
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— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
April 8, 2015
The New York Times just posted a horrifying video of a white North Charleston police officer named Michael T. Slager tussling with a black man named Walter Scott—then shooting him eight times in the back as he fled, then planting what appears to be a Taser by his prone body (to support the false statement he would…
Now that Rand Paul has announced his Presidential candidacy, joining firstie candidate-in-name-only Ted Cruz and the inevitable-but-formally-unannounced Jeb Bush (sorry: “Heb Boosh”), it is officially the season of Republican conjecture. And, for a woman who would only vote Republican at gunpoint, there is only one…
Press play! What do you know, you're in an empty roller rink on disco night, and the whole thing's filling with dry-ice smoke that flashes pastel under the lights, and you're slow-dancing with yourself and it's incredibly important. Am I wrong? Do I care? Carly Rae, take me away.
The editors at Rolling Stone have negotiated a very interesting path between apology and non-apology since the beginning of the process that has, as of yesterday, definitively revealed their UVA rape story to be an abject failure in terms of intent, process and outcome.
In the annals of institutional fuck-ups, the University of Virginia’s 2014-2015 school year will go down as one for the ages, despite the fact that much of the painful unrest was initiated and heightened by outside entities: thirsty magazine writers, a joke of a tertiary police force. The student body, for the most…
The Staves are a sister trio from the UK—Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor—and their new album If I Was, newly out on Nonesuch Records, is one of the prettiest things I've heard all year. Like the new, phenomenally focused Sufjan Stevens record, the Justin Vernon-produced If I Was is an exercise in the…
At the New York Times Magazine, Lili Loofbourow's written a great profile of Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany, otherwise known as the most chronically underrated actress on prestige TV.
You know that old saying about the internet: If a celebrity with over 1 million followers tweets anything, they will instantly receive a reply concerning ass. Are you savvy enough to figure out which celebrity tweets inspired these ass-replies? Take my cool quiz and see.
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THE CROISSANT
Written by Marina alone and produced with only one collaborator, Marina and the Diamonds' new, icily technicolor, Italo-disco-and-alt-rock-tinged FROOT is a major anomaly among major-label pop albums: Today's biggest female pop artists are almost to a rule great songwriters, but not a single one of them would turn out…
Well, are you? It'll be just like this picture, except the Bluetooth will be encased in medical-grade silicone and implanted right on your clitoris, just like Grandma used to do.
My beauty life is one of compromises, which is to say that in general, I strive to look a strong "okay." But, I also know goals are predictive—so today I decided to strive for more. It was sunny when I woke up and I wasn't hungover. Literally anything in the world seemed possible.
In February, 33-year-old Indiana resident Purvi Patel was found guilty of both feticide and child neglect after delivering a 24-week-old stillborn child at home and disposing of the body in a dumpster—an act that was discovered after she went to the hospital, bleeding, and the doctor discovered an umbilical cord.