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Woke Marxist Pope
We are so tired.
 
– Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun
We can't stop talking about...
How millennials lost their cool
Cringe!  
How millennials lost their cool
Mocked by gen Z for everything from trainer socks and mum jeans to selfie techniques, a maligned millennial asks: how did we get here?
G, why?  
The world has moved on – and yet Chris Lilley made a Mr G podcast.
Rock spry  
Kate Mossman has spent her life interviewing ageing rock stars. She's found them to be suspicious, gassy but often great fun.
Trim eye  
Some men think shaving off their lashes will make them look more butch, risking irritation, infection and truly gnarly eye-boogers.
Cook this
Pumpkin soup taste test
Pumpkin soup taste test
Canned, refrigerated or in a pouch, Tristan Lutze tried them all. He found some decent work lunches and one that was ‘thin yet clingy’.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Is the Pope a feminist? Is the Pope a queer ally? Is the Pope my friend? No, but he is from the Vatican of the Midwest – Chicago – which has many people everywhere going insane. Sorry to those other cardinals! And sorry to Matt and Bowen. The church has cast its votes after watching Conclave for, uh, research, and the real winner is these seagulls. 

Everything happened this week! The ChatGPT essay! The West Village essay! The Ocean Vuong essay! If these words mean anything then you may be entitled to compensation. Every woman is a mama; everyone is reading tabloids; every New Yorker is leaving – including Lena Dunham. 

Can Spotify be stopped? Should A24 be stopped? Has pop culture stopped? These are the not-so-secret lives of Mormons, this is the dark side of School of Rock, and this is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s living room. The Met Gala also happened?? Hawk Tuah is back??? And we haven’t even talked about that episode of The Rehearsal???
Top of the list
An album – pop reign  
Everyone's trying to do Y2K but the only one actually succeeding is pop auteur PinkPantheress – whose new record Fancy That is delightfully derivative.
Everyone's trying to do Y2K but the only one actually succeeding is pop auteur PinkPantheress – whose new record Fancy That is delightfully derivative.
A school – cool Dane  
Erika De Casier, Smerz, Astride Sonne: why is one Danish music school producing every cool alt-pop star? We went inside to find out.
Erika De Casier, Smerz, Astride Sonne: why is one Danish music school producing every cool alt-pop star? We went inside to find out.
A film – love strain  
It's an Ang Lee remake! This new version of The Wedding Banquet – starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone – left our reviewer cold. Maybe it'll charm you? In cinemas.
It's an Ang Lee remake! This new version of The Wedding Banquet – starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone – left our reviewer cold. Maybe it'll charm you? In cinemas.
A show – nice grain  
Natasha Lyonne's hard-boiled heroine is back for another season – and 70s-indebted Poker Face is 'painfully close to being a classic'. On Stan.
Natasha Lyonne's hard-boiled heroine is back for another season – and 70s-indebted Poker Face is 'painfully close to being a classic'. On Stan.
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Chloe Elisabeth Wilson's tour of her tabs
Chloe Elisabeth Wilson's tour of her tabs