Lounge Loves: ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’, the Renaissance Punk art and more

Scam Alert Stories about female scam artists have been the flavour of the season on streaming platforms for a few years now and while I squirm a bit about the probable misogyny behind highlighting these stories, I can’t lie that they fascinate me. I binged Apple Cider Vinegar, a new Netflix show about the notorious Australian wellness influencer Belle Gibson, who faked brain cancer in order to push her “eating healthy” narrative and sell her app and book, and enjoyed it thoroughly, more so because pseudoscience always gets my goat and nothing is more satisfying than seeing woo-woo peddlers being brought down by their own lies and hubris. —Shrabonti Bagchi Moves like Serena Kendrick Lamar’s continued digs at Drake even at the Grammys didn’t impress me much, but bringing Serena Williams on to dance to his diss track Not Like Us at the Super Bowl won me over. Lamar is the revenge king and the whole world is taking notes from him.—Dakshayani Kumaramangalam Subtle Cues via Art While aimlessly searching for art that felt like me, I stumbled upon an online art gallery Nook At You’s “Renaissance Punk” collection. As the site describes, these pieces blend classic Renaissance masterpieces with “witty, sassy, and downright hilarious text.” I had to get the one that features a classic Renaissance-style portrait of a seated woman, dressed in period attire, overlaid with the text “Please, Leave By Nine” in a bold hot pink font.