Mary-Kate and Ashley Hate Being Famous
I have been in the same room as Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen approximately twice over the course of my lifetime. As someone whose parents…
Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Beauty Advice, Even Though Her Daughter is a Bee
Sometimes, to stave off thoughts of my mortality, I’ll use a clarifying mask. I like this blue one by May Lindstrom. We did a…
Love and Hollywood: Sanaa Lathan Prepares for her Comeback
When we start chatting, Sanaa Lathan’s a bit punchy. There’s a huge, high-decibel construction project going on outside her modest L.A. home, and she…
The Talking Dead
The first thing I notice upon entering the Los Angeles apartment of Kia Hellman — a medium whose specialties include channeling dead celebrities and…
Listen to my podcast, Lady Problems
I talk about the way pop culture treats women with the women who make pop culture, including Brit Marling, Phoebe Robinson, Melanie Lynskey, Karyn…
On The Handmaid’s Tale, Bernie Sanders, and Feminism
The two episodes I’ve seen so far of The Handmaid’s Tale, which premieres April 26 on Hulu, are fantastic. The adaptation breathes new life…
Rachel Bloom Was Born This Way
Rachel Bloom is concerned that someone is spying on us. She’s sitting across from me at Echo Park’s Andante Coffee Roasters, sporting a pair…
The Life-Changing Magic of Destroying Your Fellow Man: My Week With Steve Bannon and Sun Tzu
One of Steve Bannon’s favorite things to do, besides hate Jews, is to talk about how he’s read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War,…
Frank Ocean’s Uneditable Genius
If we were going to get picky, to look the gift horse that was this weekend’s magnificent Frank Ocean triumvirate — his visual album,…
50 Shades Whiter
This weekend, my coworkers and I attended a Friday-night screening of Fifty Shades Darker armed with a coffee mug full of of bad champagne…