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17 days into our #28DaysOfBlackCosplay showcase and the creativity just keeps coming! Today we have two cosplayers to highlight, please enjoy their cosplay stories and them gushing about some of their favorite things, be it cosplay or fandom-related. Ofeibea Loveless of Airship Ashanti Ofeibea Loveless started dressing up for local steampunk events in 2013 and

Good morning, modern lovers! It’s a very quarantine Valentine’s Day and we’ve got love on the brain like Rihanna. As you might have heard, the March ‘Modern Lovers’ issue of GQ is on newsstands now. So when the GQ social squad asked me to put together a new Spotify playlist to mark the swooniest season

Donald Trump likely heaved a very big sigh of relief over the weekend when, despite literally siccing a fascist mob on the U.S. Capitol to burn down democracy in his name, he escaped any and all responsibility for his actions. That sigh was presumably extra heavy given that (1) his crack legal team basically started

The new HBO docuseries *Allen v. Farrow—*about Dylan Farrow’s accusations of sexual assault against her father, the critically acclaimed and much-feted writer-director Woody Allen—has a lot to tell us. It is not, as one might have guessed, a rehashing of media stories we’ve already heard. Instead, the four-part series—which begins airing Sunday—asks us to face

Healing is not linear, and no one knows that better than Hayley Williams. The orange-haired beauty released her emotions one guitar solo and vocal riff at a time as the lead singer of Paramore, the emo rock band so many of us grew up with. In early February, she dropped her second solo album, FLOWERS

So. It’s Presidents Day, which means it’s as good a time as any to remember the time when a psychic time-traveling Gorilla tried to kill Barack Obama. As this fabulous tweet reminded us, it was an epic moment in TV history that we all need to recall on this solemn day. This Presidents Day, please

Oprah Winfrey will host a prime time television special on CBS on Sunday March 7, an interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. It will be the couple’s first lengthy television interview since their engagement, and certainly the first since they exited their royal duties last year. The news comes just one day after their

Yeah. And it is funny. That I don’t mind as much. I’m always curious to see how I’m going to be introduced because I will sometimes be introduced as Twitter’s Poet Laureate, which, what is that even? Or a tweet will be mentioned, or I’ll just be introduced as the author of “Rape Joke,” which

Though many high-profile names and TV networks had made bids to score the first interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex since they stepped down as senior royals, it will be Oprah Winfrey and CBS who get to do the honors. The network announced Monday that they will air the 90-minute primetime special on

Regé-Jean Page, the dreamy Duke of Hastings on Netflix’s runaway success Bridgerton, will host next week’s Saturday Night Live. The familiar corkboard reveal came during this week’s broadcast, hosted by Regina King. Page uploaded the image to his Instagram account. In an interview with V.F., Page, a former drummer, remarked that his personal iTunes account

Just as Michelle and Barack Obama never fail to share the love on holidays and special occasions, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds never pass up the chance to lovingly troll each other. Today, for her Valentine’s Day Instagram message, Lively posted a video of Reynolds helping her dye her hair (assuming this was taken during

Many years ago, someone asked singer Tom Waits about his favourite sounds. He replied, “a baseball game on an AM radio on a warm summer night.” He’s not wrong. To generations of radio listeners, there’s something mystical about the tinny, crackly sounds of an AM radio broadcast. AM radio (or if you’re from certain parts

We’re in something of a renaissance right now in regards to the early 2000s. Sort of. Because of Promising Young Woman and everything happening in the Free Britney movement, many are looking back at how we treated women of the past and starting to re-evaluate. Which brought up a 2013 interview between David Letterman and Lindsay Lohan.

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are expecting their second child, a spokesperson for the couple said on Sunday. Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, stepped back from royal duties in January 2020 and moved with their first son Archie to Southern California to live a more independent life

Nearly one year after their royal exit was finalized last March, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are having another child. On Sunday afternoon, the couple announced the pregnancy through a spokesperson and released a photo showing the two embracing outdoors. “We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother,” a spokesperson said

The opening scene of The Silence of the Lambs is a masterclass in restraint. For roughly two minutes, director Jonathan Demme turns his focus to a woman climbing a hill on a training course. When she reaches the summit, she gazes around; a small smirk crosses her face as she turns to see a bird

Saturday Night Live (SNL) took a jab at the results of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial with its own spin of Tucker Carlson Tonight. Featuring Alex Moffat as the primetime Fox News’ host, the show began with a “loose collection of scaremongering non sequiturs” — which included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex, pronouns for dogs

A little over a year ago, as he closed the Democrats’ first impeachment case against Donald Trump, Adam Schiff made one last appeal to Senate Republicans: If you don’t say “enough” to his conduct now, you’ll remove whatever guardrails exist to keep him in check. “He has betrayed our national security,” the House Democrat said

You may have been seeing or hearing a lot about pop star Britney Spears lately. What, exactly, is going on? The Grammy-winning singer is back in the news following the release of Framing Britney Spears, a New York Times documentary. The at times harrowing movie dives deep into Spears’ past and ascension to uber-fame, starting

Taylor Swift has given her fans a whole new set of reasons to get excited lately. This week, she announced that she would be re-releasing a new recording of her 2009 hit, “Love Story” at midnight on February 12. Since then, Swifties have been doing what they do best: Detective work. After Swift revealed the

Lynn Stalmaster, a casting director with close to 400 credits whose eye for talent helped sculpt Hollywood for decades, has died, according to reports. His work included television classics like Gunsmoke and The Untouchables, and films like West Side Story, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crowne Affair, Deliverance, 10, First Blood, Tootsie, and 9 1/2

A newspaper invaded Meghan Markle‘s privacy by publishing a personal letter to her estranged father, a U.K. judge ruled Thursday, in a major victory for Markle in her campaign against what she sees as media intrusion. The Duchess of Sussex, 39, sued publisher Associated Newspapers for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement over five February

Face/Off is about to get a facelift from the director of Godzilla vs. Kong, Adam Wingard. That’s right, the 1997 action film that’s best known for the completely implausible but definitely memorable premise of stolen faces and such is finally getting, not a remake as we previously heard last year, but a direct sequel! Wingard

Cineplex has announced it is reopening theatres in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick after a months-long closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. This Friday, N.S. and N.B. theatres will reopen at 50 per cent capacity to a maximum of 100 guests per auditorium. “We are excited to safely welcome our guests back to theatres across

Quick: You’re a lawyer and your client is on trial for inciting a violent insurrection. The problem is, he’s guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. Literally, there is no question whatsoever that he did what he’s been accused of—none! Whatsoever! And everyone knows it! To wonder if he’s guilty is to look at O.J.

Throughout that time the trio worked to get the track in front of Jay-Z. “We always thought that was going to be Nip and Jay-Z,” says Mike, “from the jump.” Dopson regularly tours with Jay-Z as part of his backup band 1500 or Nothin, and put the track in Jay’s hands via his longtime engineer

Jeep is pulling a U-turn on its Super Bowl ad campaign with Bruce Springsteen after police revealed that the singer was charged with drunk driving late last year in his home state of New Jersey. Springsteen was arrested on Nov. 14 in the Gateway National Recreation Area for allegedly drunk driving on his motorcycle, the National

Justin Timberlake has apologized to former girlfriend Britney Spears and Super Bowl halftime co-star Janet Jackson in a statement issued following the release of a high-profile documentary about Spears’ life. Timberlake issued the apology on Friday after the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears sparked calls for him to do so earlier in the week.

Over the last week Democratic impeachment managers have made the case that not only did Donald Trump incite the violence that took place on January 6, but he also relished in the attack on the Capitol and continued to foment it even as it was clear that Vice President Mike Pence (not to mention the

Parisa Taghizadeh/Fable/ViacomCBS Jodie Turner-Smith has grown—deservedly—comfortable with a crown. The actress, whose turn as Queen in Melina Matsoukas’s Queen and Slim earned her widespread critical acclaim, is taking it back a few centuries to play the infamous Tudor queen Anne Boleyn in three-part psychological drama Anne Boleyn for the English broadcaster Channel 5. Boleyn is