June 2021 Culture Articles
- Quentin Tarantino has always been a brilliant idiot
- James Franco’s $2 million settlement adds to a complicated day for sexual assault victims
- Bill Cosby walking free is more proof that our justice system is a joke if you're rich
- The Weeknd's new HBO role as a cult leader isn't as unbelievable as it seems
- Ariana Grande is giving away $2 million in therapy
- Does Madonna own the queer television kiss? (No, she does not)
- Sorry, you'll never convince me that 'Bachelor' alums deserve PPP loans
- Zola turns a Twitter nightmare into high art
- Jay Z breaks down how blockchain could be the key to artist empowerment
- On 'Planet Her,' Doja Cat is fully realized as the future of pop
- Money can't save Tyler, The Creator from heartbreak on 'Call Me If You Get Lost'
- Lil Nas X's BET kiss was a step forward for a network known for thinking backwards
- Gwen Berry’s podium protest showed the Olympics are about more than sports
- TLC's new tour marks a wave of reunion concerts we all secretly need
- 35 Things Under $35 That Help You Get Much Better Sleep
- The 11 best workout shorts for men
- Tyler, the Creator makes everyone embrace their inner weirdo
- Perez Hilton’s misogyny is showing
- Here's how Britney Spears can get her life back, according to a lawyer
- My phone took on a life of its own — and it forced me to be a better person
- Why do we even care about Taylor Swift's feud with Scooter Braun?
- Kenya Barris and Issa Rae are changing the music industry with their new record labels
- A real-life victim of the 'Zola' villains says "there's nothing glamorous" about sex trafficking
- Jordan Peele's 'Candyman' is the latest film to take aim at police brutality
- Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart are here for all your Olympic commentary needs
- Sharon Stone isn't wrong about Hollywood worshiping Meryl Streep
- Hear me out: Netflix's show about dating in animal masks isn't that weird
- Police are investigating Chris Brown for allegedly hitting a woman in Los Angeles
- What Carl Nassib's announcement that he's gay means for pro sports
- Nina Simone's granddaughter defends Chloe Bailey's take on "Feeling Good"
- Ted Lasso wins a Peabody Award for killing us with kindness
- The best early Amazon Prime Day deals
- The best Wayfarer sunglasses and 4 affordable alternatives
- Black cowboys on the future of the Black rodeo
- Snapchat quietly retires its "speed filter," which was linked to deadly car crashes
- Conservatives are having a meltdown over Megan Rapinoe replacing the Victoria's Secret Angels
- “Exhilarating, joyful, and of course pretty scary": Musicians on the pressures of returning to the stage
- Trevor Noah says that canceling Chrissy Teigen misses the point
- Los Angeles will now take its turn prosecuting convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein
- 18 brilliant literary pieces you can read in the time it takes to eat lunch
- A summer like no other
- 'Starstruck' will melt your icy heart and make you believe in love again
- Billie Eilish doesn't have to answer to us about who she loves
- "We Keep Us Safe:" AAPI people are taking their safety in their own hands
- Megan Thee Stallion terrorizes a conservative senator in the 'Thot Shit' video
- This new national game show museum is a shrine to TV nostalgia
- The 'Gossip Girl' reboot really wants you to take it very seriously
- We need Samuel L. Jackson to rethink his list of top 5 Samuel L. Jackson movies
- The end of 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' hardly means the end of the Kardashians
- Maddie Groves boycotts the Olympics to punish "misogynistic perverts" in sports
- Optimism for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck shows media coverage is becoming more human
- Willow Smith's latest interview proves "white people's music" doesn't exist, but racism does
- 'Loki' is Marvel's best show yet, because it doesn't feel like a Marvel show
- T.I.’s retirement announcement is nothing more than cowardly victim blaming
- 10 sports documentaries to get you fired up ahead of the Olympics
- After 'Promising Young Woman,' Carey Mulligan is taking on Harvey Weinstein himself
- The stars of 'Kim's Convenience' blast its "overwhelmingly white" production team
- This new Loki teaser touts gender fluidity. But is it just an Easter egg?
- Bad Bunny is a lovesick puppy in the ‘Yonaguni’ music video
- Ellie Kemper apologizes for attending “racist, sexist, elitist” Veiled Prophet Ball
- The author of a new Prince book explains how he discovered a new side of the artist’s genius
- Katt Williams to all comedians: If cancel culture gets to you, you weren't funny anyway
- Megan Thee Stallion's new single "Thot Shit" will launch another Hot Girl Summer
- Floyd Mayweather just beat Logan Paul into a very rich man
- Michaela Coel dedicated her ‘I May Destroy You’ award to the show’s “essential” intimacy coordinator
- 15 songs we all know but can't name
- What is absinthe and why was it banned for 100 years? A mystery as murky as the alcohol itself
- After a pandemic, the isolation of 'A Quiet Place II' feels startlingly relatable
- The unofficial Celine Dion biopic is already a hot mess
- TikTok's favorite beekeeper is getting dragged for "faking" it
- Calm app will pay tennis players' fines for skipping press in support of Naomi Osaka
- Eboni K. Williams is shaking up RHONY’s white history
- Spotify has a new kind of Wrapped playlist that LGBTQ+ people will love
- When will hip-hop start protecting Black women?
- One month later, here’s what we’ve learned from Will and Kate’s YouTube channel
- Harry Styles, king of gender neutral style, is working on a line of cosmetics
- Billie Eilish takes control over her image in her new video for “Lost Cause”
- YouTubers are risking their lives for our clicks
- Ricky Martin said he has PTSD from Barbara Walters trying to out him on TV
- 3 LGBTQ+ movies to stream on the Criterion Channel during Pride Month
- Coachella 2022 proves that post-pandemic promises are harder to keep
- Ellie Kemper and the Veiled Prophets controversy, explained
- iCarly returns, banking on millennials' endless appetite for empty nostalgia
- Bo Burnham's 'Inside' brilliantly captures the full spectrum of our pandemic spiral
- ‘Cruella’ is aggressively mediocre, but Emma Stone still shines
- Hulu’s ‘Plan B’ is an empathetic, insightful evolution of the teen sex comedy
