Holiday Gift Guides 2018: Travel Bug

Products that benefit wellness, efficiency and sanity when on the road

The first of many COOL HUNTING Gift Guides we will release this holiday season is perhaps the closest to our hearts. We derive such joy from travel—be that exploring different towns, states, or countries. During each of our excursions, we encounter cultural sights and food scenes, treasures and traps, magical moments and mini catastrophes—and a trip to the unknown always extends beyond the time on the …

Listen Up

Neo-soul, blues, hip-hop, pop and more in this week's bops

King Princess: Pussy is God With equal parts sweetness and swagger, King Princess (aka Mikaela Straus) has crafted an incredibly satisfying and infectious bop with “Pussy is God.” The singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer’s new track is glittery and polished, with plenty of synths and boom-bap percussion, but shies away from becoming overly saccharine or twee. It’s a delightfully catchy, perky pop song celebrating queer love. Earl Sweatshirt: Nowehere2go After plenty of teasing …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

An alien probe, ancient bathroom humor, the mistaken history of chocolate and more

Ancient Bathroom Humor Discovered Uncovered this week in Turkey, inside what was once a Roman latrine, are a bunch of dirty jokes that date back to the second century. Two mosaics depict well-known Greek and Roman characters, Narcissus and Ganymede—only the scenes are a little different than the myths we know. In one, Narcissus is staring down at his penis, obsessed; in the other, Ganymede (who was …