Jeff Ihaza

I can’t say for sure when it started, but for the past several months I’ve gotten the distinct feeling that rollerblades were, for lack of a better term, “coming back.” It’s possible that I’m more acutely aware of the presence of these eight-wheeled…

On HBO’s Insecure, Jay Ellis plays the perennially confused Lawrence, whose relationship with Issa, the series’ main character played by Issa Rae, is as fraught as it is engrossing. By the end of the show’s third season, the pair reach something of…

The scale of economic damage brought on by the coronavirus pandemic won’t be clear for some time. And initial signs don’t appear promising. Unemployment figures have risen to unprecedented levels, and the U.S. economy reportedly shrank by the…

Isolation breeds strange behavior. A delirious playfulness spurred by the fact that there’s no one around to see how weird you can get. Think of Tom Hanks’s character in Cast Away befriending a volleyball. The coronavirus pandemic has pushed us all…

The Criterion Channel is an embarrassment of riches, which can also make it kind of intimidating. While almost every streaming service is frustrating and repetitive to scroll through in its own way, Criterion doesn’t have a shortage of classic films…

Right as most of the country locked down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Netflix's latest true-crime documentary Tiger King arrived, providing a kind of hypnotic distraction from the news. The series follows the rise and fall of Joseph…

More than two years after sparking a worldwide reckoning on sexual assault, Harvey Weinstein, the powerful Hollywood producer who became the subject of a cascade of sexual assault allegations, has been found guilty of criminal sexual act in the…

The musician Kaya Wilkins remembers a revelation she had at a karaoke bar. It was during "Sexual Healing," by Marvin Gaye. "I was just complete trash. Garbage," she recalls. In the moment, the song's overt confidence rang untrue. So the 29-year-old…

The movie industry was on its A-game in 2019, without a doubt. Buoyed by infusions of cash from the likes of Netflix and Amazon, studios took more risks and told more ambitious stories. From Adam Sandler's dazzling performance in Uncut Gems to the…

At this point, it’s a cliché to say we’re living in “a golden age of television,” but it really is true. Through all of the confusion of 2019, there were some innovative and remarkable television series that hit the air — as well as streaming…

It can be hard to shop for the aesthete in your life. What with their concerns over silhouettes and construction. It can also be prohibitively expensive. On the flipside, these can sometimes be the most fun people to shop for because it'll send you…

You might call it a Christmas miracle. For the first time in the nearly ubiquitous song's 25-year history, Mariah Carey's 1994 jingle, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is the number one song in the country, according to Billboard. It might (and,…

In the Safdie brothers' latest thriller, Uncut Gems, there is seldom a moment when your senses — namely your ears — aren't under attack. For what feels like the entirety of the film's 135-minute runtime, everyone is shouting over each other. It's…

In a video circulating online, a white woman at a production of Slave Play has a certifiable meltdown. Jeremy O. Harris’ bombshell work, which centers on interracial couples in an experimental form of counseling that involves antebellum role-play,…

Tom Dixon is known for making home goods that captivate your attention carefully. The self-taught designer's signature brand is an emporium of sensation. Candles that tingle but never burden, lights that dazzle only when they need to, furniture that…

Lil Nas X is a fitting avatar for the shifts in pop culture that have taken place over the past decade. The 20-year-old musician's ascent to viral stardom occurred with the efficiency of a tech startup. His single "Old Town Road" first crept, and…

For a certain stratum of millennials, Disney Channel's original movies represent the peak of American cinema. Titles like Brink, about a group of young rollerbladers faced with the dilemma of "selling out" are stories that resonate to this day.…

In Barbarians at the Gate, the 1993 HBO film based on the best-selling book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, the victims of capitalism’s more visceral excesses are gestured to but never represented. The film follows the leveraged buyout of RJR…

The internet is obsessed with the Succession theme song. There are memes setting the Nicholas Britell-written score to everything from Kermit the Frog dancing to scenes from Billy Madison. The consensus online being that, yes, the Succession theme…