The Best Movies on Rotten Tomatoes’ Popcornmeter, Definitively Ranked
Love it or hate it, the review-aggregator defines its own reality. What does it tell us about the evolution of the cinematic canon, online and off?
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Art exhibitions and creative culture
Listen to BA Bake Club’s Podcast on Tiny Tomato Galettes
Jesse and Shilpa chat with fellow editor, and Bake Club’s first guest contributor, Rebecca Firkser, about all things galette, and award the latest Baker of the Month.
5 min readOne Day I Woke Up And There Were Two Of Me
Growing up, I was always encouraged to be myself. I was taught that every person is different, and that our uniqueness is a great gift. This firm sense of self served me well as I embarked upon a care...
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The Best Men’s Hairstyles for Long Hair in 2026, According to Experts
It’s never been a better time to grow your hair out. The best on-trend options include mullets, afros, and something called the “soft punk.”
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A risk-averse video game industry is failing marginalized developers
Nazih Fares has been inundated with praise when pitching 'spicy' card battler The Arab League of Misfits, so why has funding yet to materialize?
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Orla Gartland teams up with Matt Maltese for new Trying soundtrack cut
‘So Perfect’ comes from the official soundtrack for the fifth season of the Apple TV series Trying, which is out now.
5 min readWhat Sally Rooney’s Fiction Illuminates About Real-Life Marriage
Watching Normal People by Katy Whitehead They started watching Normal People, like everybody else, during the first lockdown. They’d been married three years at this point. She’d read two of Rooney’s ...
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9 Easy No-Knead Bread Recipes Anyone Can Bake
Like pretzel focaccia, easy pizza dough, and more beginner-friendly loaves.
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Exclusive Cover Reveal of “There’s Plenty of Sunshine Where You’re Headed” by Ghassan Zeineddine
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of There’s Plenty of Sunshine Where You’re Headed by Ghassan Zeineddine, which will be published on March 16th, 2027 by Tin House/Zando. ...
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Lucy Dacus offers up self-directed video for ‘Planting Tomatoes’
The single was initially launched as part of an exclusive Record Store Day 7” earlier this year.
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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Our fivesome of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Dave Portnoy’s Cancel Me If You Can, James Lasdun on Irvine Welsh’s Men in Love, Gabriel Winslow-Yost on George Saunders...
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5 Summer Date Night Outfits for Men Guaranteed to Impress in 2026
Post-work drinks? Midday coffee? Leisurely weekend hang? Start here.
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The 28 Coolest Things I Saw at the Paris Men’s Fashion Week Showrooms
From high-fashion orthopedic footwear to a sweatshirt with an inflatable hood (!), here’s the best menswear of the other Paris Fashion Week.
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17 Polo Shirts Under $150 That'll Make Your T-Shirts Jealous
Every knit, linen, and pique polo you'll need to level up your summer fit.
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Are Fermented Foods Really a ‘Natural Form of Ozempic?’
The longevity bros love it. Members of the Trump administration too. Experts explain the science behind fermented food and whether it can help you lose weight.
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How Often Should You Buy New Underwear?
It’s probably time to give your skivvies drawer an overhaul.
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The Millions’ Great Summer 2026 Book Preview
After a long and merciless winter, summer is upon us, and with it, the urgent need for beach reads, pool reads, park reads, fire escape reads, coffee shop patio reads—you get the point. We’ve go...
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How to Layer Your Skincare Products Like a Pro
If you’re not careful to apply your skincare in the correct order, you might be sabotaging your skin. Here’s a refresh on the order of operations.
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Atari appoints Andreas Deptolla as president of Atari Europe
Deptolla calls Europe a 'strategically important region for Atari.'
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Clearly Fake: Zurbarán’s Uncanny Realism
“The blunt way to put it is that when he’s not pulling off sublime feats of realism, Zurbarán can be spectacularly clumsy.”
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