On Screen
The films and shows I return to again and again, from comfort watches and book adaptations to the kitchens, hotels and outfits I can’t stop thinking about.
On Screen · Rewatch Diaries
Rewatching Girlfriends taught me five lessons about adult friendship, from loving flawed friends to grieving the ones who drift away.
On Screen · Rewatch Diaries
I rewatched Living Single for comfort and found a business plan: what Khadijah James and Flavor magazine taught me about running an indie magazine.
On Screen · Style & Spaces on Screen
Last Holiday’s Grandhotel Pupp, Stella’s Jamaica resort, the Girls Trip hotels in New Orleans and Coming to America’s Waldorf, ranked by whether I’d book.
On Screen · Watchlists
Why a weekday matinee alone is the best treat in town: the empty theater, the solo movie date, my little rituals and a few matinee manners.
On Screen · Style & Spaces on Screen
Soul Food, Waiting to Exhale, The Photograph, Love & Basketball and more: the kitchens in Black movies on my mood board, and what I’m stealing from each.
On Screen · Style & Spaces on Screen
Fred’s armchair on Sanford and Son, the Jeffersons’ sofa, Moesha’s diary-writing bed and a table in the Pit at Hillman: the best reading chairs on TV, ranked very scientifically.
On Screen · Watchlists
Paris Blues, Last Holiday, Belle, Rye Lane and more: six Black movies set in Europe for when you want to move abroad but have emails to answer.
On Screen · Rewatch Diaries
My prescription for an embarrassingly bad day: five comfort TV episodes, a few honorable mentions and the bad-day TV rules I actually follow.
On Screen · Style & Spaces on Screen
Something New, The Photograph, Brown Sugar, The Perfect Find and Waiting to Exhale: the pure joy of watching Black women on screen simply have nice things.
On Screen · Rewatch Diaries
Living Single, Girlfriends, A Different World, Martin, Half & Half, Insecure and Harlem: the Black sitcoms that made adult friendship look so good.