- 1. A New Way to Deal With Tech Bros? This TikToker Put Her Boyfriend on a Performance Improvement Plan
- (Living)
- ... an interview with HuffPost, Hui explained she and her boyfriend “were friends first and moved in very quickly because it was COVID lockdown. Because of that, we started seeing each other’s good, bad, and ...
- Created on 02 March 2023
- 2. Big Freedia is Bringing Her Own Hotel, Restaurant, and Venue to NOLA Nightlife
- (Living)
- ... the establishment came to her during the pandemic. She was inspired to open a restaurant as cooking became a source of creativity and joy for her during lockdown, and opening a hotel had long been a dream ...
- Created on 02 February 2023
- 3. Betsey Johnson on Nonconformity, Getting Through Hard Times, and Staying Creative
- (Style)
- ... any means, it has been more embraced in recent years, thanks to an auspicious convergence of post-lockdown dressing, trend cycling, and the Y2K revival. But Betsey Johnson and her colorful designs have ...
- Created on 17 January 2023
- 4. NYC Art-Rock Band UNI and the Urchins’ Charlotte Kemp Muhl Uses Lockdown and Isolation as Creative Fuel in New Music Video
- (Music)
- For many artists, the times of pandemic isolation presented as many new challenges as new opportunities for creative expression. UNI and the Urchins successfully harness the lonely uncertainty of lockdown ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 5. Santigold Is Back With Genre-Bending "Spirituals," Her First Full-Length Album In 6 Year
- (Music)
- ... 2016's 99¢. The mom of three took advantage of 2020's lockdown to reconnect with her artistry, enlisting a prodigious set of producers and collaborators. As the title reveals, she tapped into the sustenance ...
- Created on 12 September 2022
- 6. Britney Spears & Elton John Just Released a Video of Their Brand-New Duet and It’s Fantastic
- (Music)
- ... Glory in 2016. Unlike Spears, John’s latest release was in 2021, and it displayed his affinity for duets. The British icon released a 16-track album comprised solely of duets called The Lockdown Sessions. ...
- Created on 25 August 2022
- 7. LA-Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's Latest, "Lapvona" is Out Now. Plus, A Peek At Her Fiction Practice ...
- (Books)
- ... during the lockdown. There's something about where I live, in a shady glen surrounded by mountains on one side, and the sprawl of a metropolis on the other, that made imagining a medieval time and place ...
- Created on 23 June 2022
- 8. Kate Bush on her recent viral success: “It’s quite shocking, isn’t it? The whole world’s gone mad!”
- (Music)
- ... cool that this new generation is discovering his mum. The whole family binged Stranger Things after the first season came out, making this route of virality even more exciting for the group. During lockdown, ...
- Created on 22 June 2022
- 9. Design Guru Debbie Millman Explodes The Myth Of The “Personal Brand,” Explains “Why Design Matters,” And Reveals How She Won Her Wife Roxane Gay’s Heart On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast!
- (Poptarts)
- ... podcast, Millman explains why there’s really no such thing as a “personal brand,” looks back on her favorite interviews, and reveals the details of her whirlwind elopement at the height of COVID lockdown. ...
- Created on 10 February 2022
- 10. Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
- (Entertainment)
- ... is “for [her] to get on top” during sex, she’s “not getting up for any white man.” Reflecting on their time in lockdown, she says, “I love my boyfriend, I do, but we quarantined for 15 months! Don’t nobody ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 11. A Tale of Two Murders: How the Deaths of 2 Women Lead to a Racial Reckoning in the UK
- (Feminism)
- ... across the country. One vigil held online had more than 28,000 attendees. Another vigil which was held outdoors in March during a national COVID-19 lockdown, was said to have had hundreds of attendees ...
- Created on 29 November 2021
- 12. Punk Band Shannon & the Clams Are Back with "Year of the Spider," While Ora the Molecule's Serve Up Pop and Funk on "Human Safa
- (Music)
- ... Auerbach, the grungy punk quartet completed Year of the Spider just before the COVID-19 lockdown and in the wake of personal tragedies. Singer and bass player Shannon Shaw said it felt “like the end of ...
- Created on 13 October 2021
- 13. New Natalie Morales' Film Language Lessons, Explores Zoom-Facilitated Long-Distance Friendships
- (Movies)
- ... Sexes, Dead to Me), but Morales the director is having a moment: Language Lessons, which she co-wrote and stars in with Mark Duplass, is one of the two features she helmed during lockdown. It’s the quiet, ...
- Created on 20 September 2021
- 14. How Y'All Doing? Actor, Singer, And Writer Leslie Jordan Is Pure Southern Sunshin
- (TV)
- ... him an Emmy. But in 2020, he experienced an unexpected surge of fame after he started posting videos of himself going stir crazy in lockdown. “Well, shit,” he began, in that unmistakable drawl. “How y’all ...
- Created on 16 September 2021
- 15. Can "Mindful Masturbation" Help You Heal From Rape and Sexual Trauma
- (Sex)
- ... pleasures, I finally felt in control of my body again and was ready to date and start my sexual journey openly post- lockdown. Now I know what I enjoy and what makes me feel comfortable. For me, it’s all ...
- Created on 15 September 2021
- 16. Amyl and the Sniffers' Amy Taylor on Surviving Lockdown with Bandmates, and the New Album, in BUST Interview
- (Music)
- ... found herself in the music industry, how she dealt with the lockdown, and her new album, Comfort to Me. BUST: Growing up did you always know that you want to go into music? A: Not really, I always ...
- Created on 27 August 2021
- 17. Japanese Rock Band CHAI, Serves Up Food For Thought, on Lockdown Inspired Latest Album "Wink
- (Music)
- ... CHAI created a genre-defying album that expands upon their neo-kawaii or “new cute” aesthetic. WINK “reflects what I truly love to listen to,” MANA says. “Everything is 100 percent from my heart.” Lockdown ...
- Created on 19 July 2021
- 18. 6 Iconic LGBTQ+ Comedians To Laugh With This Pride Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... ‘Fuck Harvey, yeah! Equal pay! Yeah, we got to get equal pay!' and then be like, “Ooh, girl, I got to get home and watch The Bachelor.' No.” Sykes has since written her own TV show during lockdown, The ...
- Created on 10 June 2021
- 19. Therese Curatolo Isn't One to Read Between The Lines in Her Newest Single "Braille": BUST Intervi
- (Music)
- ... my good friend and I knew that we were in quarantine and we couldn’t do anything. This was last September, right at the height of lockdown. So that was our makeshift video that we used to project images ...
- Created on 28 April 2021
- 20. Trippy Tuesday Is Revolutionizing Female Figure Art With Body-Normative Candles
- (Living)
- ... a shared interest in each other’s artwork. “Since then, what started as a lockdown hobby has turned into a full blown business and a way for us to channel our ideas!” the pair reflect on the company’s ...
- Created on 13 April 2021
