New Music This Week: Laura Jane Grace In Scorpio Season, Charli XCX In '99 &...
After my first job at MTV working as a music programmer, I can't stop trying to matchmake people with music they might like. So, I wrote a book calledRecord Collecting for Girls and started...
View Article3 Cold-Weather Comfort Food Recipes That Take 15 Minutes Or Less
During the summer, when you don’t have time to do anything other than grab a tub of hummus and chuck some pitta in the toaster, it doesn’t matter that your dinner is unfulfilling. The sun nourishes...
View ArticleYou've Got Mail: Best Film Ever Or Deeply Problematic?
This year marks the 20th anniversary of You've Got Mail, a romcom for the chatroom era starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. While some (Jess) say it's aged terribly and is a perfect example of everything...
View ArticleYour Horoscope This Week
The moon enters Capricorn early this week. This sign is all about rules, making Monday a good time to get work done. We're in the midst of a Mercury-Venus conjunction, where both planets are camped out...
View ArticleThe Best Celebrity Instagram Posts Of The Week
This week's celebrity Instagram round-up does feature a couple of pictures from the Royal Wedding – though not, sadly, any photographic evidence of the Queen queuing up for pizza from the food truck...
View ArticleThe Top 20 Travel Destinations In the World Have Been Revealed
After attracting more than 20 million international visitors in 2017, Bangkok (pictured) has been named the most popular travel destination in the world.Thailand's capital city welcomed slightly more...
View ArticleHow I Share A Tiny 460-Square-Foot Studio With My Fiancé
What $259,000 Gets You In Los AngelesIn Refinery29's Sweet Digs, we take a look inside the sometimes small, sometimes spacious homes of millennial women. In today's episode, 27-year-old Jessica James...
View ArticleThe Investigation Of Journalist Kim Wall’s Gruesome Murder Is Becoming A TV Show
The tragic 2017 murder of a Swedish female journalist, Kim Wall, is being turned into a six-part TV series, according to a report from the Guardian. Titled “The Investigation,” the series will be...
View ArticleNatalie Portman Called Out Predators Still Working In Hollywood In A Powerful...
Natalie Portman was named an honoree at Variety’s Power of Women Event on Friday. In her much-tweeted-about acceptance speech, Portman eviscerated Hollywood predators, reductive myths about women in...
View ArticleTrump Is Still Rallying For His Failed Family Separation Policy
After fierce public pushback to President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance family separation policy, which forcibly separated families at the US-Mexico border and was ended by a court order to reunite...
View ArticleThe Diary Of A Senior Legislative Assistant On Capitol Hill
Despite the US House of Representatives becoming increasingly diverse, only 13.7% of senior House staffers are people of colour, compared with 38% of the country as a whole. Organisations like Staff Up...
View ArticleBudget Gym Kit That Looks Way More Expensive Than It Really Is
Getting yourself to the gym can be expensive. From the "cheap" membership deals that turn out to be not so cheap, to the crisps you have to buy midway through the afternoon because you're starving from...
View ArticleIt's Been 10 Years Since The Hills. Kelly Cutrone Is Still Pissed Off
I have this theory: Have you ever seen a celebrity in public and noticed that, even if they're wearing sunglasses and a hat (indoors), they're always sitting in one of two places? They've either put...
View ArticleA Popstar & A Nun On The Struggles Of Myanmar Today
When Aung San Suu Kyi won the elections in Myanmar in 2015 – the first openly contested vote in the country after decades of oppression – I was on the street outside her party’s headquarters.I’ve never...
View ArticleThese Innovative Hair Colour Trends Will Be Everywhere In 2019
From gemlights to midlights, stained glass hair to oil slick hair, we've been spoiled for choice when it comes to hair colour trends for all hair types and textures this year. And thanks to advances in...
View Article6 Shoe Brands That Fashion People Love
Good news: eye-wateringly expensive shoes aren't cool anymore. Just take a look at this season's front rows; instead of big-budget brands, the editors, buyers, stylists and bloggers were championing a...
View ArticleWhat It's Really Like To Be A Child Of The Windrush Generation
We’re all at least fleetingly aware of Windrush and the scandal that unfolded in the last year or so. Devastating stories about people being denied re-entry to the UK – the country they’ve called home...
View ArticleA Love Letter To Carbs
Hello there. I am going to tell you why I love carbs. But first, a little context.It’s 2018, homes are full of cheese plants, the world is run by monsters, Diet Coke comes in Exotic Mango flavour and...
View ArticleSimone Biles Did A Game-Changing Vault That No Woman Has Ever Accomplished
We’re incredibly lucky to live in the same world as Simone Biles, who is making history by dominating the world of gymnastics. Witnessing her perform her routines will give you goosebumps every time,...
View ArticleLouis Theroux Is About To Delve Into The World Of Polyamory
The king of documentaries, Louis Theroux, is back with a new three-part series this autumn and we can't wait to see how many awkward situations he finds himself in while exploring the world of...
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