I wasn’t quite sure whether to do today’s entry in the usual form of a song or just give today’s artist an entire advent calendar door of his own… yes, it’s Bing Crosby! Today’s song may...
Feminist media darling Amy Schumer is in the news again this week for her feature in 2016’s Pirelli Calendar — the world-famous borderline pornographic calendar distributed to distinguished...
On Thanksgiving, I, like millions of other people across the US, sat at my Thanksgiving day table and promptly got into a fight with my conservative family members. Thanksgiving is one of the most...
California’s Silicon Valley has become almost a parody of itself — and definitely a pending referendum on late-stage capitalism. As in the tech bubble of the late 1990s, the entire Bay Area is...
Netflix dropped Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Friday and the internet hasn’t been able to shut up about it since, particularly when it comes to a corner of the internet that tends to be particularly...
Hillary Clinton announced her Presidential candidacy on April 12, 2015. In the moment, it was great news. I like the woman; I believe her to be the single strongest and most qualified candidate in...
US late night television is a cultural institution that keeps night owls up with comedy, political commentary, and satire, with some programmes like Saturday Night Live stretching back decades. Often...
Many viewers of AMC’s The Walking Dead have complex feelings for the show. It’s kind of like a high school relationship that makes you listen to a lot of Cure and repeatedly doodle broken...
Aziz Ansari, like many before him, has taken to Netflix as the platform for an intriguing series that allows him to explore television in a new way—with the added bite at pushing at how the United...
Noted transphobe and feminist theorist Germaine Greer has yet again lurched into the newsweek with trenchant and scintillating commentary on the trans experience, via dehumanising and misgendering...
