How to become a foodfluencer, according to Instagram Rings creators

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Making a living off of posting food pics – or sharing the behind-the-scenes while making food – is only a recent occupation. It is, however, a seemingly fast-growing one. Between the countless restaurant reviews, fashionable foodie…

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8 rituals to celebrate Samhain AKA the Witches’ New Year

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This article was originally published 24 October 2022. The Halloween we celebrate today has become a hectic race of binge consumption, Instagrammable costumes and blow-out parties. In the US, it’s a $10 billion dollar industry, a…

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Live, laugh, eat brains: Hanging out with TikTok’s zombie prosthetic girls

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Witches, vampires, killer clowns (and soon Frankenstein, thanks to Guillermo del Toro) have all had recent cultural resurgences — but when will zombies get their flowers? Sure, they’re not exactly as sexy as their horrorhellip; read…

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Art shows to leave the house for in November 2025

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. November is heating up – artistically speaking, of course. Across London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, and beyond, artists and curators are rethinking how we tell stories – of nations, bodies, myths, and memories. This month’s list spans water…

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‘It’s spiritual warfare’: Bricknasty are fighting for Dublin’s precariat

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Irish hip-hop band Bricknasty’s hometown is under threat, and, for masked frontman Fatboy, this destruction manifests rather innocuously in student housing. “Our drug addiction centre was demolished to build accommodation for university students,” he tells me…

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No one is doing red carpet fashion like Teyana Taylor

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. We’ve seen some pretty hot red carpet moments this year. Alexander Skarsgård’s Pillion press tour was the gift that kept on giving; Jenna Ortega’s ethereal Wednesdayhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (11 images)nbsp; Source: www.dazeddigital.com —…

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BABYMETAL: The ‘little girls’ who shaped a generation of metal music

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The odd pairing of the words “baby” and “metal” instantly drives attention. How can two extremely different worlds possibly combine into a compelling third? That has been the mission of Japanese trio BABYMETAL since their debut…

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These photos explore the emotional intensity of BDSM

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The world of BDSM is so often misrepresented and misunderstood, depicted gratuitously to satisfy prurient curiosity. Most evocations of this complex subculture don’t do justice to the nuance, the sympathy and the deep, trusting relationships formed…

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Dazed Mix: Jennifer Walton

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This month’s mix comes to us courtesy of Jennifer Walton, whose nostalgic blend of demo recordings and fairground samples conjures sleepy memories of distant memories. “I really love demos; they have this almost parasocial edge to…

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