Culture

Adam Zmith’s new book explores the history of poppers, from its medicinal properties to its hedonistic centre stage in queer culture. Aaaaand inhale...

Bella Poarch is already a survivor, and a Navy veteran, at just 24. Now the tiny but tough TikTok star is ready to step off the app and head, eyes narrowed, for pop stardom, plushie alpaca in tow.

With summer drawing to a close, we trawled through Netflix and Amazon to find the sexiest scenes on streaming services. It's a dirty job, but someone had to do it.

The artist opened his latest exhibition, England’s Lost Camelot, last weekend. After labouring on the artworks through both lockdown and nerves, he's ready to show the world how he's rewritten (sorry, repainted) the country's history.

Screen Time: Feet up. Telly on. From a Spice Girls doc to Bolu Babalola’s Big Age, here are the best TV and film morsels to snack on from 10th September onwards.

Photographer Jermaine Francis’s Rhythms of the Metroplex explores life without proximity and how time really can be of the essence.

Channel 4’s new reality show Highlife focuses on the lives of ambitious young Black West Africans living in London. Meet the 28-year-old THE FACE is calling the show’s break-out star.

From razor-sharp memes about Kanye's Donda and Tony Soprano crying to SOPHIE, here's some seriously fun stuff to tide you over until The Many Saints of Newark comes out on 22nd September.

In 2019, Rahel Stephanie started Spoons as a means to share delicious food with friends. Now, she’s bringing her local dishes to the masses and edging closer to her roots in the process.

With prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark about to hit cinemas, Michael Gandolfini talks stepping into the role that his late father, James, made so famous: that of Tony Soprano, the complex mob boss whose legacy has endured as one of TV’s greatest ever characters.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack get your kit off! The Derby Lad plays a stellar polar explorer in intense BBC Arctic thriller The North Water.

Screen Time: Billie Eilish’s ode to LA, vampire slayers, Selena Gomez as a true-crime caper and loads more – the best films and TV shows to keep you occupied from 3rd September.

Whilst the City Sleeps is an iPhone-shot photo series of snoozing commuters captured by labourer Alex Carter on his journey to work.

Move over, Avengers! In Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Three Rings, the actress adds Nora-from-Queens sizzle to the MCU’s most progressive film yet.

Five Things: The artist, writer and podcast host talks us through her most prized possessions, all of which are far too precious to ever end up at the local flea market.

The third and final series of Pose has come a close, the final episode airing on BBC Two last night. The show was a landmark moment for trans television representation, but ultimately, its obsession with being "seen" obstructed meaningful storytelling.

Screen Time: Let’s face it, summer is over. Time to pack in the outdoor activities and stay home with boredom-busting content instead.

Best friends Faye Maidment and Alice Ophelia’s popular Substack newsletter deciphers all the Gen-Z internet trends you could ever hope to wrap your head around. What do their online habits say about them?

The hotly anticipated sequel to the 1992 horror film has bucketloads of blood, yes. But more terrifying than the legend itself is the devastating real-world inspiration behind it.