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I am bombarded with unrealistic, six-abbed fitness content daily. So I filed a complaint to my friends: why is social media crushing my body confidence? “Yeah, well, imagine being a woman,” one withered, and OK, totally fair enough. But as the global himbo domination marches on, there’s an accessory that’s become just as ubiquitous: their […]

Amsterdam is one of these cities you just feel like going back to. With its quaint topography and exciting cultural scene, it’s worth planning regular “revisits” and part of the allure is to witness new hotel concepts springing up around the capital. The most recent one? Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park situated […]

Since 2020, the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture has convened bi-weekly meetings with over 30 BC-based arts service organizations (ASOs) to address sector needs. Together, we have collaborated on advocating for a brighter future for all arts, culture, and heritage entities, professionals, and volunteers. In 2023, a working group of ASOs engaged Earnscliffe, a professional government […]

Fans of the beloved Knives Out film franchise will not be surprised to see detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) make a dramatic entrance at a crucial point in its latest installment, Wake Up Dead Man. They may, however, be surprised to see him make that entrance as a direct answer to prayer. And Blanc keeps […]

Denis Villeneuve made it clear right from the start that his adaptation of Dune would take three films. The first two would cover the first book and a third one would wrap up the full arc he set out to tell. That plan is finally coming to fruition with Dune 3, which, according to lead […]

Oct 22, 2025 An episode from Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast, too good not to share for Catholic Culture Podcast listeners! Anthony D’Ambrosio directed, wrote, and produced the outstanding new film Triumph of the Heart about St. Maximilian Kolbe. In this inspiring interview, he discusses the difficult path he and his team charted to produce […]

Even in situations when Japanese people are quite positive that something is true, they typically hold back on expressing claims. Similar to how one might use a layer of wrapping paper to hide what is really within a package, when speaking Japanese, Japanese speakers regularly encase their assertions in language that implies they aren’t sure […]

Paul Thomas Ander­son­’s lat­est film, the loose Thomas Pyn­chon adap­ta­tion One Bat­tle After Anoth­er, serves up many a mem­o­rable scene. But for a cer­tain kind of cinephile, noth­ing — not the ter­ror­ist attacks, not the chas­es, not the swerves into askew com­e­dy — sticks in the mind quite so much as the moment in which […]

Best Budget Workout Shorts: Gymshark Arrival Shorts Gymshark has blown up recently, thanks to the brand’s commitment to creating high-performing workout apparel at approachable price points. Take the Arrival shorts, for example, which are about as little as you’d want to spend on gym bottoms lest you’re down for mooning your fellow gym goers while […]

What’s in a name? For Marguerite Humeau, a shared prehistoric language, a collective future and the structure of her latest exhibition at The White Cube. Meys, meaning to mix or bring together in a hypothetical Indo-European language, is a multi-disciplinary body of work that imagines what insects could build with the remains of a human […]