Sure, we might not write in-depth cultural critiques of everything that makes a splash on pop culture’s radar every week, but that doesn’t mean we’re not talking about it around the Vv Magazine office watercooler. That’s why, every Friday, Vv Magazine’s editors roundup the stuff we loved, hated, debated, and obsessed over during the week that was with Vv’s Over-rated/Under-rated. We’re not ashamed to admit that we do more than just keep up with the Kardashians — we have office polls on what everyone from Bruce Jenner and Kate Middleton to Marc Jacobs and Justin Trudeau will do next…
Under-rated: George RR Martin releases another chapter from The Winds of Winter
…and it’s the first Sansa Stark point-of-view chapter since A Feast for Crows in 2005. Or you could wait for the TV show to catch up, lazypants.
Over-rated: Snorting chocolate
Oh yeah. It’s a thing. In Vancouver. Let our West Coast Editor Alexandra Gill tell you all about it. Whatever you do with your Easter chocolate is on you.
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Under-rated: Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell’s secret Lifetime TV movie
Scheduled for release some time this summer, A Deadly Adoption is apparently going to be a dramatic thriller starring Wiig and Ferrell as a couple caring for a pregnant woman whose child they have plans to adopt. What the eff? Well, according to The Hollywood Reporter, starring in a Lifetime movie has been on Ferrell’s bucket list. This is the BEST. Do you have a bucket list? This week, Vv Magazine travel correspondent Si Si Penaloza outlined the top 10 “it” destinations of 2015 to add to your travel bucket list.
Over-rated: Cocaine
Toronto, you have a problem (and it’s probably cut with crushed glass and fertilizer, by the way). Just look what our gossip columnists, the Scenesters, saw go down at a ROM party this week…
Under-rated: New songs and Off-Broadway production from DAVID BOWIE!
David Bowie is co-writing a new stage work, Lazarus, with Tony Award-winning Irish playwright Enda Walsh. Based on The Man Who Fell to Earth, the play will feature NEWS SONGS FROM BOWIE!!!
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Over-rated: Ordering in
Eff it, it’s nice out! Vv Magazine’s Libby Roach is all about these new Toronto restaurants opening in April…
Under-rated: Maddie Ziegler in Sia’s new video for Big Girls Cry
We’ve liked Dance Moms for years — years!
Over-rated: Gigi Hadid poses braless for W Magazine
And with that, apparently boobs are back. We’re actually all about one pieces and monokinis this summer. Check out our top 20 sexiest favourites…
Under-rated: Martha Stewart (on the Justin Bieber Roast)
Prison changes you… for the better… or at least it means you can cut a bitch. This week, Vv Magazine’s Isabel Chalmers profiled kickass business peeps like Martha with mad balls in “Toronto Startups: Don’t Call Them The North’s Silicon Valley” while Vv’s Danielle Jobb took a closer look at the trendiness of feminism in 2015…
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