Category: Lifestyle & Culture

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When filmmakers claim to be inspired by the Safdie brothers, they’re really talking about Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Belgian sibling duo who had already pioneered a certain type of social realism: they cast non-professional actors,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Kate Solomon was eating dinner with a couple of friends in her flat when the man came bursting in, desperately asking her to call an ambulance. An indie popstar had been critically injured in the flat…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It doesn’t always start with a botched job. Sometimes it’s a perfectly ordinary tweakment that quietly spawns a second appointment, then a third; sometimes it’s a post-laser flare-up that needs calming; other times, tear-trough filler that…

“When I was a struggling filmmaker, I grew up with the biggest comedians in the world,” says Darren Aronofsky, referring to his time in the 90s living in New York. “There was this night on Ludlow Street where you’d get Louis CK, Marc Maron, Chris Rock and Sarah Silverman performing for 20 or 30 people.”…

It’s a sticky summer’s evening in Peckham, and Folk of the Round Table is just about to begin. The weekly music night, which has been going on since 2018, is open to all to come down and sing folk around the circle. The crowd is overwhelmingly young. Folk has arguably not been this visible and…

I’ve been living with my parents for the last year, and though on paper that reality may sound diabolically bad (as much for them as for me) it’s actually been surprisingly chill. Ways that it’s similar to house-shares I’ve been in previously: I get on well with the people I live with, I cook for…

Egregore Festival, Casablanca, 202521 Images In 1985, Morocco-born, Lyon-raised rapper Shams Dinn moved to Paris in order to pursue a career in music. Performing at a time when hip-hip in anything other than an American accent was practically unthinkable to most audiences, Shams Dinn’s Arabic lyrics immediately stood out. His 1987 single “Hedi Bled Noum”…

If you go for a walk in London in 2025, there are certain things you’re guaranteed to see. A blueberry matcha latte, a pair of Onituska Tigers, a studio flat the size of a kitchen table that costs £2,500 a month, a recently closed nightclub and a fake Labubu, to name a few. At some…

Fara Homidi – Soft Glass Lip Plumping Oil8 Images All the cool girls love Fara Homidi. Look inside any Balenciaga City Bag or Chloé Boho Paddington and you’ll be sure to find the brand’s signature sky blue lip compact or the shiny red of the concealer, most likely with the companion make-up brush not far…

Now entering its 59th year of existence, Notting Hill Carnival is known for a number of different cultural exchanges. There’s the music, of course, with huge soundsystems posted up on every street corner, blasting dancehall, reggae, soca and the like; there’s the Caribbean food, with lines of stalls offering the best roti, ackee and curry…