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. In 1979, Ian ‘Flipper’ Ross opened a roller skating paradise in the heart of Los Angeles. Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace was the purple and blue-painted hotspot for California’s youth, including famous faces like Elton John, Nile…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As summer winds down, most of us slip back into routine. Street-side tables and rocky coastal cliffs are swapped for office desks, inboxes, and the daily commutes. But for those who want to hold onto the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 2025. –  I have just returned from watching the trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights – starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, with music by Charli xcx. This is certainly a controversial adaptation! In all Hollywood,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On a sticky summer night in August, some 40,000 people poured into central Edinburgh for Chappell Roan’s Summer Session. The Midwest Princess has quickly become pop’s most loved maximalist, known for her camp, over-the-top beauty looks…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Every couple of months, my social media feeds get filled with fuzzy fancams of the latest streamer romance. It happens against my will. I actively try not to engage, but the algorithm knows me better than…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Read an interview with Lauren James and you’re bound to come across a line about how the Lioness and Chelsea forward prefers to let her football do the talking. She says it herself. “I just want…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 23-year-old Amelia* says she was definitely the “more intelligent one” in her past relationship. “We were very different,” she reflects. While she was inquisitive and curious, her partner, by contrast, was more closed-minded. “I read the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Every couple of months, my social media feeds get filled with fuzzy fancams of the latest streamer romance. It happens against my will. I actively try not to engage, but the algorithm knows me better than…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Swag I took everyone by surprise. It laid Justin Bieber’s cards bare, offering intimate insight into the personal life that fans had long speculated about, over fresh, lo-fi pop production deeply indebted to Dijon and Mk.gee….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Being a citizen of the 21st century, it feels increasingly like the world is teetering on the edge of something,” says Brett Anderson. We’re in his west London flat, drinking tea and contemplating the unnerving, ambient…