- Zeitgeist
David Hockney, or on looking
He died at 88. Platinum hair, round glasses, cigarette in hand. He had painted more swimming pools than anyone else and believed the world was beautiful, if only people bothered to see it.
- Sidelines
7a0, a stupidly simple game you can't stop playing
A dead-simple game that's almost impossible to put down and very easy to return to. Zero skill, barely any strategy, but plenty of dopamine when Garrincha and Ronaldinho end up on the same team.
- Lisztomania, Zeitgeist
So, should Geese be loved or hated?
There’s a band that has almost monopolised musical discussions in recent months. As usual, there’s no room for balance or middle ground in the public debate.
- Zeitgeist
Ferrari Luce has Alpha males rattled
Few things expose fragile masculinity quite like an electric Ferrari with soft curves.
- Sidelines
Understanding Neymar
At 34, Neymar was long considered the finest footballer on earth behind the transcendent figures of Messi and Ronaldo, yet his inclusion in the World Cup squad comes as a shock, a development few dared to hope for. Why?
- Sidelines
The Europa League Is in Love with Emery
Unai Emery has won the Europa League for the fifth time, with a third different club, twelve years after the first. An attempt to explain this peculiar phenomenon.
- Atelier
Lyocell Could Change Fashion and Beyond
Born from wood cellulose and produced through low-impact processes, Lyocell is transforming fashion, design, and textile research, thanks to properties that blend luxury, performance, and scientific innovation.
- Foodie, Screenplay
Making an Old Fashioned the way Don Draper likes it
The most ordered cocktail in the world for six years running, resurrected by a TV series and a very cool man who does not exist. Don Draper's Old Fashioned is whiskey, sugar, bitters and something harder to explain.
- Foodie, Screenplay
The Big Lebowski’s White Russian
Some cocktails represent a way of life. Few do it better than the White Russian immortalized by The Big Lebowski.
- Sidelines, Zeitgeist
How Kathleen Krüger became the first female sporting director in elite European football
Seventeen years at Bayern Munich, the public admiration of Guardiola and Thomas Müller. Now Hamburg, for a milestone no club in Europe’s five major leagues had ever recorded before.