I am an unabashed fan of Tori Amos. I have been a fan of hers for over 20 years now, and although I don’t self-identify as an EWF—Ears With Feet, her term for her fans—I’ve seen her in...
While 2019 was a crappy year for politics and the effects of climate change (among other things), it was an outstanding year for pop culture. If you had trouble navigating the firehose-like release...
I have been fascinated by monsters from an early age. I can’t remember when it started, but at some point during my childhood, I began to think that vampires, phantoms (specifically, the Phantom of...
Comedy Central’s riotously weird series Strangers With Candy—which lasted for three seasons, until it was cancelled in favor of a show called Strip Mall—turns 20 this year. As a millennial,...
This review contains spoilers for several episodes of Black Mirror Did you know that technology is bad? Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker wants you to know that it is! His critically acclaimed and...
Artist/animator/graphic novelist Lisa Hanawalt was behind much of the gorgeously bonkers production design for Netflix’s hit show Bojack Horseman, so it’s unsurprising that Tuca &...
If you haven’t yet heard of Lizzo—the Minneapolis-based musician, rapper, singer-songwriter, and classically trained flautist—I envy you, but not for the reason you might think. Part of me...
The first lyrics that Sharon Van Etten sings on her new album are “Sitting at the bar, I told you everything / You said, ‘Holy shit, you almost died.’” Her singing is framed by harsh, echoing...
In a lengthy interview published on The Cut this week, writer/comedian/provocateur Lena Dunham spoke about her struggles with physical pain from both a connective-tissue disease and fibromyalgia,...
Writer, poet, performer, and author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s published work—including the memoir Dirty River and poetry collections Bodymap, Love Cake, and Consensual Genocide—has...
