Tag: humor

At the beginning of the year, Brittany spoke to ELLE Fashion Features Director and author, Véronique Hyland, about the growing trend of underconsumption content online. No-Buy January, buying secondhand, and mending old clothes seemed to be taking hold amongst some of the most popular influencers – even though the guiding principle of underconsumption is something we’ve been doing for a long time.

Then, Trump started implementing tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada – and now even the European Union. That made Brittany think: how would fast fashion be affected by this? And would underconsumption move from a hashtag to a lifestyle? To find out, The Indicator’s Wailin Wong joins the show to break down how tariffs will affect Americans who love to shop… when the prices drop.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer Hilton Als says we “don’t actually have much silence left” in our world. His latest exhibition challenges the way we see art, identity and storytelling.

Every culture has its own special soup. The belief is that a bowl will make you feel better if you’re feeling under the weather, hung over or just in need of a pick-me-up.

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Since 2015, you’ve been part of a cinéma-vérité project directed by Jordan Peele, and you’re playing Hapless Liberal No. 61.

“Purpose” by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the civil rights movement.

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An age-old Palestinian tradition of making soap in the Israeli-occupied West Bank was recognized by UNESCO. A visit to one factory tells you why.

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New on the shelves this week: An obit writer writes — and drunkenly publishes — his own obituary. A Hungarian teen stumbles into adulthood. And geriatric sleuth Vera Wong returns.

The Netflix series follows a 13-year-old accused of murdering a girl from his school. Co-creator and star Stephen Graham says he read about similar crimes and wanted to know: “Why is this happening?”

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In the very funny new satire The Studio, Seth Rogen plays a Hollywood studio head desperately trying to do a job he’s afraid of failing at every single day. The Apple TV+ series features comedy MVPs like Catherine O’Hara, Bryan Cranston, and Kathryn Hahn, but also cameos from actors and directors playing themselves — including Anthony Mackie, Zoë Kravitz, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese and Ice Cube.

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Who says there are no historical precedents for accidentally including a journalist on top-secret war plans?