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While its original series don’t always have the marquee value as those on rival services, Hulu has quietly been building one of the strongest catalogs of original content in the Peak Streaming era—the recent delights of Only Murders in the Building being but one case in point (pun slightly intended).The streamer’s December offerings include a…

Along with millions of other TikTok users, I am currently letting a 13-year-old pug named Noodle dictate my mental health. Hey, at least it makes more sense than blaming my mood on a planet 28.595 million miles away being in “retrograde,” whatever that means.Noodle and his owner, New York City-based Jonathan Graziano, have garnered millions…

Image: Book coverJane Foster Created by: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack KirbyFirst appearance: Journey into Mystery #84 (September 1962)There’s likely to be a lot going on in Taika Waititi’s upcoming Thor movie (the fourth for those keeping track), but the big headline is, perhaps, the surprise return of Natalie Portman as Jane Foster who…

Boxing experience Thrill of the Fight is the toughest game I played, it got my heart rate the highest, and even though the graphics were a bit cheesy I ended up totally immersed. Between rounds of one fight, I nearly sat down on the virtual stool in my corner of the ring.The hands-on experience begins…

Photo: smmarteye (Shutterstock)Although you can’t eradicate dust (it’s largely made up of human skin flakes, after all), you can help stop it at the door. Esquire recommends buying a hard bristle doormat (I have two of them), because the hard bristles work to trap lint, dust, and dirt before it gets inside your home. You…

Everything on the internet was wild last week. There were wild pants, wild boxing matches, and criminals who act wild on YouTube, so let’s dive in. Oh, and Loki is alive again.Last week in wardrobe malfunctions: Pants problems plague plutocratsIt was been a big week for pants problems on the internet, starting with the bizarre…

Photo: Micaela Heck/Elena ScottiThis week we’re taking baby steps toward living a greener lifestyle with help from activists and filmmakers Laurie David and Heather Reisman. Laurie is an environmental activist and an award-winning documentary film producer, having produced the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth, and Heather is the CEO of Canada’s Indigo Books & Music as well…

Photo: BAZA Production (Shutterstock)Many of us are feeling the impacts of a more sedentary life during the pandemic—and we’ve seen the way that nearly a year of staying home has impacted our kids’ fitness, too. From sports camps during the summer to gym class, gymnastics lessons, and team sports during the school year, our kids…