Meg is back on her Tina Snow wave with “Thot Sh*t.” By Frazier Tharpe June 11, 2021 Megan Thee Stallion performs onstage during Day 2 of “Red Rocks Unpaused” 3-Day Music FestivalRich Fury/Getty Images It’s barely been six months since Megan Thee Stallion dropped her (very solid) debut album Good News, but she’s already locked
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Kate Middleton and Camilla Bowles giggle as the cut is made. By Jordan Hoffman June 12, 2021 Queen Elizabeth protected the Realm against sugary desserts on Friday by personally bisecting a sheet cake with a regal blade. As part of a busy weekend that involved hosting world leaders for the G7 summit and also celebrating
A pair of episodes centered on the Oscar winner’s character can go toe-to-toe with any prestige drama. By Joanna Robinson June 11, 2021 There was a time in F. Murray Abraham’s life when he wasn’t at all interested in hearing the one word most closely identified with his career: Salieri. Abraham’s brilliant portrayal of the
The highly anticipated adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights finally premiered in theaters and on HBO Max this week. The film is based on the stage musical of the same name written by Quiara Alegría Hudes with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The film was originally set to premiere this
As we continue to make our way through Netflix’s Geeked Week, an announcement was made that unlocked a memory in the back of my gamer brain. Rubber hose animation. A cup and a mug sibling duo who were fool enough to gamble with The Devil. And death. Lots. And lots. Of death. Because fighting to
It’s Moore’s fifth film with Haynes, and the first time Portman’s invited. By Jordan Hoffman June 11, 2021 Can a movie have Oscar buzz before anyone’s turned on the camera? Yes, when it’s led by this powerhouse troika: Academy Award winners Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman are prepping a new drama with director Todd Haynes,
How long have you been singing? I know everyone says the same thing, but my entire life. I would memorize my older sister’s songs in her school plays, obsessively perfect Christina Aguilera’s vocal runs in my room for hours, I sang in choirs, studied vocal performance for a while, etc. I lived many years hiding
The annual Canada Day event in Ottawa will be virtual for a second year in a row amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the government department in charge of the annual event confirmed Friday. Typical years see crowds of Canadians and tourists to the nation’s capital flood Parliament Hill for performances and special guests on July 1.
The oft-hated sequel is not only better than the first film, it set the template for the franchise as we now know and love it. By Katie Walsh June 11, 2021 Tyrese Gibson, John Singleton, Eva Mendes, and Paul Walker on set during the filming of 2 Fast 2 Furious, 2003.Everett Collection / Courtesy of
“We were the witches with a cauldron, stirring the pot,” says Rubin-Vega of the trio, who reunited to chat about dance numbers, bodega orders, and the best kind of gossip. By Caitlin Brody June 11, 2021 “Tell me something I don’t know,” salon girls Daniela, Cuca, and Carla trill while trimming bangs, painting nails, and
America has had plenty of prolific families, but very few have an influence as potent and enduring as the Kardashians. Since the debut of their hit E! series Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2007, the Kar-Jenner family—Kris, Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Rob, Kendall, Kylie, Caitlyn—have unofficially become the faces of pop culture, social media, controversy,
Not surprisingly, he apparently also overstays his welcome. By Bess Levin June 10, 2021 What is Donald Trump up to these days? Oh, not much, just reportedly telling people he’s going to be president again by August, crashing weddings, and according to a new report from Bloomberg BusinessWeek, dropping in on memorial services and having
Eline Fleury is bringing her A-game with her new single “Say Something”. A singer with heart and sincere intensity, Fleury delights in the new jazz track. Wrestling into the jazz mix is a splendor of percussion and African-like hymns. The audacity of the track is that Fleury isn’t playing any game at all. She’s making
In February, HBO Max announced new additions to their adult animation line-up. Among them was Velma, an original series based on Scooby Doo alum and O.G. Mary Sue Velma Dinkley, with Mindy Kaling voicing the title character. Today at The TV Kids Summer Festival, Tom Ascheim, president of Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and
Our critic asks only that HBO Max’s new show be sexier, savvier, and gayer than the original. By Richard Lawson June 10, 2021 Thirteen long years ago, I cut my teeth as a blogger by recapping Gossip Girl, the CW’s soapy series about mean teens on the decidedly un-mean streets of the Upper East Side
The president rolled back Donald Trump’s chaotic orders banning the wildly popular app—but put his own investigative process in place. By Caleb Ecarma June 9, 2021 Donald Trump’s threats to ban TikTok and WeChat made for semi-hysterical reactions from internet-famous stars, but they also marked one of the frontlines of his cold war with China
I remember the first time I saw a white woman in a bodega above 125th street. It happened during the summer of 2013, when I was couch-crashing at a sorority sister’s apartment. The encounter, while memorable, did not end with me reciting Maya Angelou poetry, like Run the World’s Renee (Bresha Webb) in the series
Just as things looked to be calming down between Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and the Royal Family, another potential scandal is looming. Following the couple’s announcement over the weekend that they had welcomed their second child, a daughter, on Friday and named her Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor — the first name a long-held nickname for the
N.K. Jemisin is one of the titans of the science fiction and fantasy genre, but none of her works have been adapted for the screen as of yet—but that is about to change. Deadline has shared that TriStar Pictures has “emerged from a bidding battle to win The Broken Earth sci-fi trilogy by N.K. Jemisin.” The
We bid farewell to 14 shows that ended this season, from American Gods to Wynonna Earp. By Hillary Busis June 9, 2021 GRACE AND FRANKIE (Netflix) Age was nothing but a number for Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, the dynamic duo at the center of Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris’s comedy—and the obvious winners
The songwriter, super-producer, and Vampire Weekend alumnus talks about the music behind his new album Changephobia and shares a playlist. By Colin Groundwater June 8, 2021 Illustration by Simon Abranowicz Look back at the best music of the last decade, and you’ll see Rostam Batmanglij’s fingerprints everywhere as a member of Vampire Weekend and a
The world’s richest men pay a pittance in federal income taxes and often times nothing at all. By Bess Levin June 8, 2021 When Joe Biden unveiled his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan in April, one of the ways he proposed paying for it was by boosting the Internal Revenue Service’s budget by $80 billion,
In 2016, gymnast MyKayla Skinner placed fourth in the all-around at the Olympic trials, the highest finisher not named to that year’s Olympic team. She was one of three alternates at the Rio Games, where she cheered on her teammates Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and Laurie Hernandez from the sidelines. “I had come so close
Never Have I Ever’s leading lady talks going from study halls to headlining Mindy Kaling’s sitcom practically overnight. By Britt Hennemuth Photography by Tierney Gearon June 8, 2021 Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was a 12th grader starring in a teen production of Chicago when Mindy Kaling began searching for a young South Asian woman to lead her
Back in May, we were gifted with a first look at Kate, a Netflix movie we hadn’t known was happening but immediately needed to know everything about. Kate (Birds of Prey’s Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is poisoned and can’t be saved. When you’re a master assassin, however, that means you can spend the last few hours
A major Trump Organization executive has testified before a grand jury. By Bess Levin June 7, 2021 If you asked Donald Trump what he thinks the next several months will hold for him, he’d likely tell you that he’ll be holding some rallies, playing some golf, and getting ready to head back to the White
or Miami based Rapper, Dici, there is no time like the present. The irony, is that Dici would seem to have more time than most, as he is literally, barely out of High School. His forthcoming album, Doses, is highlighted by the new single, “Five Rings.” Believe it or not, this is not Dici’s debut
Even without a red carpet, the Juno Awards found ways to march generations of Canadian stars through their 50th anniversary celebration on Sunday night. From Shania Twain and Celine Dion to Kaytranada and Justin Bieber, many of the country’s most successful acts paid tribute to Canada’s biggest night in music by sharing music and memories
The story of the Alamo is simple, right? Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Barret Travis, and a bunch of their friends come to Texas to start new lives, suddenly realize they are being oppressed by the Mexican dictator Santa Anna, and rush off to do battle with him at an old Spanish mission in San
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry quietly welcomed their daughter on Friday, June 4—and revealed her name in full, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, in a birth announcement today. The couple chose Lili’s first and middle name deliberately in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Harry’s late mother Princess Diana. As Archewell explained of the choice