TV

So no one told you life was going to be this way… When you moved to New York City, you figured you’d spend all your time hanging out with your friends at a coffeehouse called Central Perk.

Angela Gulner, a Los Angeles-based actress and writer, created Binge, a dark comedy about a young woman with bulimia. The show, which is based on Gulner’s own experience with an eating disorder, is a breath of fresh air. It's part of a new generation of film and TV that portrays those with mental illnesses as complete people; they’re more than their struggles.

Fans of Archie Comics, milkshakes, and the CW’s Riverdale may want to head up to the Great White North sometime soon, because several Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe pop-ups will be appearing all over Canada on Thursday, October 12 and Friday, October 13. The Riverdale pop-ups, produced by Netflix Canada, were announced earlier this week on Twitter.

Twin Peaks is a TV show better known for its copious coffee consumption than its boozehounds, but that hasn't stopped David Lynch from coming out with a line of Twin Peaks-themed beer.

One of Edd Kimber's earliest memories is of making mince pies at Christmas with his mother, when the shy, then-6-year-old boy would stand on a kitchen stool happily cutting up pastry at his home in the working class town of Bradford in the north of England. Cooking was something that always brought his family together.