friday faves Featured Faves: Let's Hear it For the Boy It's my husband's bday weekend, so I'm celebrating some my favorite things he's introduced me to over the years: awkward improv celebrity comedy, sit-down pit-stops, rocking' Canadians, and one of the best action movies ever made. Love you bb!
movies The Enthusiast Oscars Extravaganza Comes to Its Thrilling Conclusion! And we're back! If you've stuck with our program to make it through the first two hours, these final thoughts are for you! Here's part one in case you need a recap, but otherwise, let’s pick it right back up where we left
movies Featured The Enthusiast Oscars Extravaganza, Pt. 1 Our first few picks for the best of 2023: Barbie (duh), Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon
music Featured Friday Faves: 2023 Music The slow-burn return of an iconic 90’s electronic duo, an indie girl band delivering break-up earworms, an almost-EGOT serving disco realness, and glossy queer alt-pop topped my playlists in 2023
skincare Sunday Stuff: The Right Scrub A little something for my fellow exfoliation fiends (and anyone else who needs a little extra oomph to de-gunk pores and gently remove dead skin)...
friday faves Featured Friday Faves: 2023 Movies & TV Sexy satires, new-fangled detective stories, and the end of one of the best shows in recent memory topped my favorites list in 2023.
brands Sunday Stuff: Stanning for Stanley Welcome to The Enthusiast, a newsletter for those who fall in love with everything and everyone. Every week(ish) I send love notes to the people, places and things I'm loving, from the latest in pop culture to random esoteric ephemera–all personally vetted and highly recommended by
celebs Friday Faves: Potpourri Pee-Wee, Lebowski, George Harrison, green tea... We're all over the place this Friday, so buckle up and let's go!
hip-hop Sunday Reads: Back, Back, Back Again Read about the dawn of hip-hop, the hellscape of Disney World, cooking chemical reactions and much more!
movies Sunday Reads: The Unbearable Brightness of Barbie Yes, I saw the Barbie movie this weekend and no, I'm not over it.
barbie Friday Faves: My Barbies, Myself In which I use hazy memories of late-80's/early-90's Barbies for retroactive self-analysis in giddy anticipation of Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie (out today!!!). Get into it.
links Sunday Reads: Metabolizing for the Good of the Species Plus: RIP to the Good Internet, death to Good Taste, and long live Florence Pugh in sheer couture!
movies Friday Faves: The Barbenheimer Paradox A stunning American retelling of a British classic, a sonic exploration and creative expansion, hot beef, and the best real-life/movie meme we've seen in years. It's Friday Faves!
links Sunday Reads #1: Barbie, Mid-Life Millennials, The Death of Diet Culture?* Our first weekly link rundown, brought to you by the Barbie Movie (I wish), Peggy Olsen, diet culture, Millennial angst, and much more!
millennials May is for Millennials It's May, and we're talking Millennials in movies and streaming shows, making mug cakes, and much more!
food Amamos el Siete de Mayo We're a bit late for actual Cinco de Mayo, but we're still celebrating with authentic local tacos, wrestling royalty, feminist surrealism, and more!
travel Grown & Sexy Spring Breakin' Or, how to enjoy your international vacation without being a stereotypical tourist...
seasons Just Spring Things Have some classic Hollywood schmaltz, a traditional Jewish soup made with schmaltz, successful TV reboots, and all Barbie everything!
drag Get Into the Zing of It Wake up from your hibernation with fiery spring celestial energy, the comfort of a good brain puzzle, and turning up and turning out for local drag!
tv Let the Sun Shine In Nurse your DST hangover with vintage gameshows, Oscar villainy, bizarre Swedish indie pop, and more!
cincinnati Springtime in the Queen City Places and spaces to slow down, chill out, and just observe the world as it is in Cincinnati, Ohio.
extremely online And Now, More New Rules for Everyone (vol. 107) Can't get enough modern etiquette? Here are 10 more "New Rules" for Real Life that I think need to be a little more mainstream.
music Black History Month: Give Them Their Flowers NOW. In case you actually NEED recommendations for Black History Month, here are some new jams, iconic classics, and deep cuts to enjoy all year long.
tv Time Machine of Love: 1993 Journey back in time with me, to a golden age when movies were movies, music was horny but earnest, and cult TV reigned supreme...
