January 2021 Culture Articles
- 9 songs helping us dream up a less hellish 2021
- The Weeknd dropped $7 million of his own money to make the Super Bowl “cinematic”
- “This is bullshit”: Jon Stewart joined Twitter to rail against greedy hedge funds
- AOC talking GameStop stonks on Twitch is peak 2021
- Inauguration eyebrow maven Ella Emhoff is now a model
- Cardi B is right about pricey COVID-19 tests — she's just the wrong messenger
- Carey Mulligan being hot enough for ‘Promising Young Woman’ misses the entire point
- Disney+ is trying to shield kids from its old racist movies
- The Bernie porn no one asked for is here
- What the hell is going on with GameStop and Wall Street?
- Florida volunteers to host the Olympics — and more COVID-19 outbreaks
- The Rock's autobiographical sitcom is a trial run for the 2032 presidency
- Funny 2021 TikToks that are helping us survive this endless winter
- What on Earth is going on in the Conway household?
- FKA Twigs detailed "deeply horrific" abuse from racist Robert Pattinson fans
- Turns out being former President Donald Trump is bad for your Hollywood career
- Keira Knightley is done shooting sex scenes for men
- Watching gymnast Nia Dennis's salute to Black excellence is joyful and jaw-dropping
- So what's going on with this 'Harry Potter' HBO Max series?
- JoJo Siwa came out on Instagram — then she got "swatted"
- Seth Rogen has been relentlessly dragging Ted Cruz on Twitter for an entire week
- The 8 best casual shoes for men to wear with jeans
- The 4 best leather conditioners for boots
- The Bernie meme is a sweatshirt now
- The NBA is banning hugs, because coronavirus
- 'Game of Thrones' prequel overload is coming
- Japan says the Summer Olympics are definitely still happening, no matter what you’ve heard
- ‘Bling Empire’ leans into crazy-rich Asian representation while forgetting the rest of us
- The final season of 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' will be all about the Kimye divorce, naturally
- The Biden era has already produced a bonanza of terrible art
- SZA wants you to come cry with her
- The inaugural virtual parade was just as bizarre as you expected
- Transcript: Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem was full of light and reconciliation
- Trump's transition letter to Biden, meme'd up by the internet
- Lil Wayne got his pardon, but Joe Exotic’s limo went home empty
- Unfazed Bernie Sanders is the best meme to come out of the inauguration
- New Pioneers
- Here's how to watch Lady Gaga, John Legend, and J. Lo at the inauguration
- Uh, one of Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina candles apparently exploded
- Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, will be nominated as Biden's assistant health secretary
- Youngest inaugural poet Amanda Gorman wants American unity — and to be president in 2036
- Trump might pardon Lil Wayne and Joe Exotic
- Here are 4 diverse superheroes who deserve their own films
- 6 minimalist men's shoes for every day
- The best albums of the week, from Ashnikko, Zayn, and more
- Snapchat has been dishing out millions to lure creators from TikTok
- Can people of color be Karens, too? (Yes)
- Betty White is celebrating 99 by quarantining with a pair of ducks
- Andrew Yang wants to be New York's next mayor, pledges more TikTok Hype Houses
- 'Sound of Metal' is a heartwarming — and frustrating — take on deafness
- Lady Gaga, J. Lo, and Tom Hanks are all aboard the Biden inauguration train
- Rudy Giuliani is going with 'Game of Thrones' as a legal defense
- Ahoy! Sea shanties are the hottest tunes on TikTok right now
- 2021 memes that are helping us to deal with this shitshow of a year
- AOC's Instagram Live paints a harrowing picture of Capitol siege
- The tearjerking Chadwick Boseman awards campaign has begun
- Kamala Harris's 'Vogue' cover continues a hurtful trend of diminishing powerful BIPOC women
- The clues to the Capitol siege were on their T-shirts
- At least Netflix is giving us new movies every week in 2021
- Stacey Abrams apparently wrote a whole-ass book while registering 800,000 voters in Georgia
- Arnold Schwarzenegger is our strange, sword-wielding unifier
- The teen attacked by "Soho Karen" is using music to process his trauma
- The Capitol riot cost Trump perhaps his most-coveted prize: hosting a PGA championship
- The 4 best men's crewneck sweatshirts
- “Soho Karen” is just as delightful as you might imagine
- Come on, Karlie Kloss, call your in-laws fascists already
- What regular couples can learn from Kim and Kanye's reported split, according to therapists
- Was Nancy Pelosi's lectern actually sold on eBay?
- O. J. Simpson and E! News had a lot to say about the coup, for some reason
- Claudia Conway roasted her mom again on TikTok after yesterday's attempted coup
- Late night's pissed response to Trump's "treason finale" was cathartic
- Katie Couric will also guest-host 'Jeopardy!'
- Edgelord Ariel Pink wants everyone to know he had a "great time" at the pre-coup rally
- While Dr. Dre was hospitalized, burglars tried to break into his house
- LeBron James wants to buy ousted Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler's WNBA team
- 2020 was a record-breaking year for women directors — but true equity is still a pipe dream
- Sorry, Kanye has nothing to do with that terrible CIA redesign
- Will publishers ever stop whitewashing BIPOC lives?
- Justin Bieber won't be the next hipster pastor after all
- 2021’s first viral internet saga was about a can of beans
- How TikTok is giving fed-up retail workers a voice
- This Swedish film festival wants you to binge 60 movies alone in a lighthouse
- Can celebrities actually help turn Georgia blue?
- 49 clever things under $30 that make life way easier
- The 8 best men's quilted jackets
