Category: Pop Culture
Grazie a Papà: No Bernardo Without Attilio
When one is born to a renowned Italian poet and writer (said writing also branching into the realm of film criticism) like Attilio Bertolucci, it’s only [Read More…]
Of All the Gay Icons to Release a Genderless Kids’ Clothing Line, Céline Dion Makes Both the Most & Least Sense
Célinununu. No, it is not the grotesque epithet some Upper East Side mother has for her lycée-attending child, but the name of Céline Dion’s new genderless clothing [Read More…]
Winona Ryder’s Harrowing Experience As A Bullied Youth Is What Has Made Her Vulnerability So Riveting Onscreen
As Winona Ryder, who turns forty-seven on October 29th (in typical goth Lydia Deetz fashion because of that Scorpio/near Halloween cachet), once explained of her [Read More…]
Unclear Why Britney Was Having An Existential Crisis About Not Being a Girl, Not Yet A Woman When It’s Obviously the Best Thing to Be
Released as a single in February of 2002, after Britney Spears had recently turned twenty, “I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman” was intended [Read More…]
The Case for Nancy Downs As The New Goddess of Halloween (Over Elvira)
Elvira, Mistress of the Night. It’s a title that most of us slores can relate to (or at least slores by men’s definitions). The character [Read More…]
That Embarrassing Moment When You’ve Written A Song Titled After Your Boyfriend & Then You Inevitably Break Up
Despite the ardency with which Ariana Grande announced of her decision to change the name of the song “Pete” on Sweetener to the even more [Read More…]
Wanting to Believe Kanye West Has A Master Plan, Is Sleeping With the Enemy for “Intent”–But Knowing Like Everything Else, It’s All A Raw Dog Operation
While most people have and are continuing to abandon the deranged ship that is Kanye West, some would still like to believe there is a [Read More…]
You Mean All This Time Taylor Swift Could Have Caused The Orange One to Lose the Presidency?
In a rare moment of choosing to pick a political side of the spectrum (the only other palpably observable time being when she decided to [Read More…]
The Ariana Grande Enigma: I’m Not Your Meat, Don’t Hang Me On Your Misogyny Hook
While everyone was a combination of aghast and enchanted (the two adjectives often go dichotomously hand in hand) at the initial revelation that Ariana Grande [Read More…]
Before Totally Dismantling the White Man, The White Woman Gets Her “Due” As Well: Kanye West, LDR & Azealia Banks
As the escalation and intensity highlighting the vast rift in the extremes of the American mentality–divided into, if we’re being as reductive as possible, somewhat [Read More…]
