When Bimini Wright, a 38-year-old Brooklyn writer and performer, embarked on a routine subway ride back in September 2025, she did not expect to return home with a pigeon. Wright first found the then-squab, which she has since named Smidgen, “stumbling around” a subway platform off the Q line during a Monday morning rush hour. … Read more
The Knicks proved that monoculture isn’t a dirty word. For the first time in their lives, New York City’s Gen Z population experienced a truly unifying common cultural experience over the course of the team’s playoff and championship runs, flooding the streets of the five boroughs in celebration of each win — but especially the final … Read more
Movie theatres are horsing around with fans. Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is coming to theaters on July 17, and to excite moviegoers, they’ve released a Trojan Horse Popcorn Bucket that requires customers to open a secret hatch on the horse to access their popcorn. The Trojan Horse popcorn bucket is the second collectible popcorn bucket … Read more
From shedding pounds and treating sleep apnea to lowering the risk of heart attacks, GLP-1s have rapidly evolved beyond their original purpose of treating Type 2 diabetes. Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are now being studied for a growing list of possible benefits, with early research pointing to possible effects on substance use disorders, neurodegenerative … Read more
They’re just trying to make scents of it. Kate claims she’s blessed and cursed with a hound dog nose — which is how she suspected she had cancer twice before getting a diagnosis. “I knew I had cancer before I even brought it up to my doctor because I could smell it on my clothes … Read more
What sounds like a failed science experiment is actually this summer’s new sugar-rush snack. Finding new ways to decorate food is a cycle on TikTok, and a new radioactive-looking combination of pineapple and Kool-Aid is the newest big trend. Summertime snackers are soaking pineapple “spears” or chunks in a mix of Kool-Aid and sugar in … Read more
There’s nothing lighthearted, let alone fun or flashy, about death — but a flamingo-colored casket or a bowling pin-shaped urn suggests otherwise. A doom-and-gloom, Addams Family-esque funeral service is not what Dan Madden, a funeral director of 23 years who owns Ohio-based Stark Memorial Funeral Home, strives for. Instead, when mourners reluctantly step into his … Read more
An Australian influencer’s seemingly snatched selfie is now getting stretched online. Isabelle Mathers found herself at the center of an internet pile-on this week after fans accused the Zoomer of digitally flattening her stomach in a glam activewear post — with eagle-eyed critics pointing to what appeared to be distorted furniture in the background as … Read more
Ticked-off Target customers claim its new carts totally miss the bullseye. Fire and brimstone are befalling the big-box store yet again as incensed shoppers say its 50,000 newfangled carts are “pieces of garbage” that are “falling apart.” Sounds like hell on wheels. Target is catching flak over its new fleet of shopping carts, which critics … Read more
Michaela Riley knew something was wrong. At just 15, she was battling a baffling mix of symptoms: thinning, brittle hair; a missing period; crushing brain fog and fatigue so severe she would fall asleep at her desk in school. “I was rapidly gaining weight, despite eating super clean and working out six or seven days … Read more
Australian Fashion Week has reached peak ‘performance art’, leaving social media users divided over whether a recent runway stunt was high fashion or just “ridiculous.” On day three of the event in Sydney, the Iordanes Spyridon Gogos (ISG) catwalk show at the UNSW Galleries in Paddington took a bizarre turn when a shirtless male model … Read more
A self-described “free speech patriot” and social media influencer known for posting confrontational racist videos and harassing strangers in public was arrested in Nashville on Friday night after refusing to stop live-streaming at an upscale steakhouse, causing a disturbance, and walking out on the check. Influencer ‘Chud the Builder’ was seen getting arrested in Nashville … Read more
Every person who’s married technically has a prenup — either written by the government in the form of a marriage license, or by the two people who chose each other out of the other 8 billion people in the world. And one expert believes a conversation about having a prenup could and should take place … Read more
It’s a case of ocular extortion. A British woman is sounding the alarm on the dangers of wearable cameras after she was allegedly filmed without her consent by a man in smart glasses — who later refused to hand over the footage without payment. The woman, using the alias Alice, told the BBC that she … Read more
This boss was dead serious when she asked an employee to “adjust” the date of his father’s funeral for the sake of the job. A bereaved breadwinner is blowing the whistle on his unsympathetic manager after she allegedly requested he reschedule his dearly departed dad’s memorial “because other teammates took leave at the same time.” “She is … Read more
Walmart’s getting slammed for an alleged price tag scam. Eagle-eyed shoppers are side-eyeing the multinational retailer amid viral claims it’s sneakily jacking up the costs of “clearance” items, tricking customers into paying more for products believed to be on sale. “Check your local Walmart because we be getting scammed,” urged TikTok user Austin Adams while … Read more
In a dating world where an unanswered text can spark a full-blown spiral — and a single Instagram “like” on a hot stranger’s photo feels like betrayal — a new romantic archetype is quietly winning over New York City women: the “Luddite boyfriend.” The Luddite boyfriend is a modern lover who keeps his digital footprint … Read more
In her debut book, Gen Z author Freya India tells the story of how girls her age were transformed by the modern world into “Girls®” — products for consumption shaped by social media, beauty filters, and Big Tech. “Young women in particular are starting to see themselves as something more and more like products rather … Read more
From toxic masculinity podcasts to divorce court, “manosphere” ideologies are leaving a trail of broken marriages, according to legal experts. When Anni Kim’s then-husband made an off-color comment about how changing diapers was a “woman’s job,” she thought he was joking. But it turned out to be the tip of the iceberg — and she … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I am a 38-year-old woman with no kids, a loving partner and puppy. I run a business my dad originally built. I’m at a high point in my life despite the tragedy of losing my mom. I realize my friendships are important going forward in life. One woman I’ve known since childhood posts … Read more