Andrew Spena

Bio

Andrew was once runner-up in a child beauty pageant. He lives mostly on the Internet, but also in Brooklyn.
The ladies wore black: All the best-dressed women from the unforgettable 2018 Golden Globes
By Andrew Spena
As anyone who lived through the past few months might guess, the 2018 Golden Globes were anything but business as usual. Conversations that began in late 2017 surrounding the culture of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry continue to…
We need to talk about Winona Ryder’s Golden Globes “comeback”
By Andrew Spena
During everyone’s favorite sporting event of the year, the Golden Globes, one ad break took me on a journey from curiosity to surprise to disappointment and then immediately to Twitter. The ad opens with a nervous ingenue pacing her dressing room,…
In a show of solidarity, the women of the 2018 Golden Globes paint the red carpet black
By Andrew Spena
The last few months have rocked the Hollywood establishment, as brave women opened up about a culture of harassment and abuse and named the men who’ve perpetuated it for so long. Seizing on a cultural moment that’s echoing far beyond Hollywood, the…
Loungewear as self-care: When the going gets tough, the tough get cozy.
By Andrew Spena
If you’re reading this and you’ve been a sentient being for most of 2017 (that includes you, Sophia), you know this year has been a wild ride, to put it mildly. 2017 has been so anxiety-inducing that any news notification brings on the same…
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Did Tonya Harding deserve to walk the red carpet at the ‘I, Tonya’ premiere?
By Andrew Spena
In advance of its Dec. 8 nationwide opening, the Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya recently held a red carpet premiere in Los Angeles. Photos of the premiere quickly hit the Internet, but it wasn’t the gold Versace dress on star Margot Robbie that set…
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In deep and necessary appreciation of Armie Hammer — and his beautiful thighs
By Andrew Spena
On Thursday, as families across the nation pause to give thanks for the delicious drumsticks in front of them, I too would like to offer up a heartfelt paean to a pair of legs recently revealed to me: the thighs of film actor and national treasure…
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Nothing short of God herself will stop me from seeing ‘I, Tonya’
By Andrew Spena
I feel the need to tell you right upfront that I am wholeheartedly, unabashedly, evangelically “Team Tonya.” “Are you Team Tonya or Team Nancy?” It’s something I like to get out of the way when I meet someone at a party, on a first date or in a job…
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Gay men, please hold your “Well, actuallys” in the wake of #MeToo
By Andrew Spena
As is too often the case these days, my otherwise restful Sunday evening content binge was interrupted by an ill-considered tweet in my feed. Prompted by a tweet from Alyssa Milano, women were using the hashtag #MeToo on Sunday night to add their…
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Sam Smith’s 2017 comeback probably shouldn’t have included wearing an R. Kelly t-shirt
By Andrew Spena
He may be “Too Good at Goodbyes,” but recent paparazzi shots show singer Sam Smith’s not so great at picking his own T-shirts. In a truly head-scratching move, the singer was photographed at the Saturday Night Live afterparty last Saturday — in…
From botanical gardens to body sprays: The surprisingly green world of fragrance
By Andrew Spena
About an hour's drive outside Manhattan, right behind an unassuming mid-century concrete facade, blooms a room full of 500 orchid varieties, continually refreshing themselves in an automated rainforest drizzle. The orchid room is one of many in the…