When New Zealand columnist Ana Samways asked her followers what sort of behaviors, objects, and actions are considered “classy” for the rich but “trashy” for poor people, the answers were illuminating. Though Samways’ tweet is years-old, it was recently revived and given new life, which makes sense in our current bleak environment. With so many
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The Chicks, formerly known as The Dixie Chicks, stopped by Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday and spoke about their band’s name change. Cohen asked Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire about their name change and Lady A’s name change, who were formerly Lady Antebellum, in a segment titled, “Chick Flick Off.”
It’s so strange. You notice one day that Melania Trump is wearing a mask (great!) and encouraging her fellow Americans to do the same (even better!), and then another day, at an official meeting, the first lady is the only one not wearing a mask in a room full of people. The reason for the
Alexis Sablone first made her mark on the skate world when she was just a kid, in 2002, as the breakout star of a classic skate video from a now defunct shop in Boston called Coliseum. In the grainy footage, Sablone wears a beanie and looks barely five feet tall, but she skates like a
It all started off with talent, passion and YouTube covers. Daniela Andrade, a Honduran-Canadian born in Montreal and raised in Edmonton, shared her distinctive musical voice across the video site, and her audience numbers started to grow and grow. Andrade’s covers of songs like Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit and Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy (among many,
Portland has been Senator Ron Wyden’s hometown since the mid-1970s, so he has seen all manner of marches and protests. But as the Oregon Democrat walked the city’s streets last week, talking to locals and working to lower tensions that have persisted since the killing of George Floyd, he encountered a problem he’d never had
Just days after the world learned of the death of 57-year-old Canadian punk rock icon Ken Chinn, friends of the late singer of SNFU are already mounting an effort to publicly honour the musician in his hometown of Edmonton. Cameron Noyes was a longtime friend of Chinn’s. He met him as a young teen in
There are few underground scenes in North America, and truly the whole world, as vibrant and diverse as Southern California’s is, and this summer, one of its many underrated gems – Dizzy Box Nine – is back with a collection of melodic tracks you’ll definitely want to hear. In Faster Than Anticipation, Dizzy Box Nine get
It’s easy to feel empathy for full time piano player/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, entertainer Marc Dorian. He’s really taking it on the chin in his new down-on-his luck tale, “End Of The Tunnel”. Keep rooting for him, because even though the lyrics suggest a different take, his eternally optimistic voice leaves you smiling and basking in his peculiar
Many have speculated about what Hillary Rodham Clinton’s life would’ve look like if she hadn’t fallen for an Arkansas man named Bill. Wonder no longer: A series reimagining the former first lady, senator, and presidential candidate’s life without her marriage to Bill is heading to Hulu. The Hollywood Reporter reports that The Affair‘s Sarah Treem
The new single “Darkest Hour” from DawgGone Davis featuring Chago G Williams is a reflection of the times. Part heartache and having semblances of inspirational shout outs, “Darkest Hour” is a slow cadence, with transformative rock vibes, that gives a one-of-a-kind rapper like DawgGone a soapbox. Count “Darkest Hour” as keeping tabs on something new
Get ready Adult Swim fans for the first-ever Adult Swim Con, which is a free, fully immersive convention experience without the need for plane tickets or hotel reservations. Adult Swim Con will run from Thursday, July 23 to Saturday, July 25 from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. ET/PT. Lineup highlights include special behind-the-scenes looks at
It came as a surprise to nearly everyone last Friday when news broke Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi had married in a small Windsor ceremony. When the couple cancelled their original wedding in April, they said they didn’t have plans for another. According to People, they only came up with the idea a few
Trevor Drury is not just another pretty face. Well, he is a pretty face – the male face for Tom Ford’s 2016 Fall campaign, Drury brings that same confidence and style to his new single “Second Chances”. Distinctly honest and a bit Anthony Kiedis-esque aloof, Drury’s magnetic vocals in the pop rock/ genre bending song
All too fitting in the wake of the notorious Harper’s Magazine open letter decrying so-called cancel culture (may I remind you that an alleged serial rapist is currently president of the United States?), Freeform’s The Bold Type took a surprising route in the second half of its fourth season, setting out to humanize Eva, a
Grey’s Anatomy‘s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital will be taking on the coronavirus pandemic in the upcoming Season 17. Grey’s Anatomy executive producer Krista Vernoff revealed the news during Tuesday’s Television Academy’s “Quaranstreaming: Comfort TV That Keeps Us Going” panel. “We’re going to address this pandemic for sure,” Vernoff said. “There’s no way to be a
Flashing a big smile and his big kid teeth, Prince George shows how much he has grown in two new pictures released to mark the future King’s seventh birthday on Wednesday. The photographs by the Duchess of Cambridge, taken at the family’s Norfolk home where the family are enjoying the school summer holidays, show just
In the summer of 1989 in Detroit, N.W.A. made it through some 30 seconds of “Fuck Tha Police” before apparent gunshots went off in the crowd at Joe Louis Arena. Prior to that, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and the rest had played their signature anthem exactly one time on stage—at the Celebrity Theatre in
Ambassatours Gray Line CEO Dennis Campbell told Global News on Tuesday there are four parties interested in purchasing the iconic Theodore (Tugboat) Too vessel. All bidders are from Nova Scotia — two in Halifax and two outside of Halifax, Campbell says. He says there are no offers yet, but he expects to get two offers
The acoustic guitar and plucky ukulele never sounded so decorous as it does alongside the alchemy-laced voice of Anna May. May’s exquisite I’m Still Thinking Of You weaves its wonderful thread through poetic tapestry and stirring echoes of folk singers before her and the droplets of coffee house sojourners wanting to mimic someone like May.
Pretend for a moment you’re a teenager again. You’re still on cloud nine from that amazing concert you went to last week—on a school day, no less—with all of your friends and classmates, not to mention your crush. You sang, you laughed, you heard a pretty moving story about a girl in Kenya, and you
Prince William, Kate Middleton and the rest of the Royal Family are marking Prince George‘s seventh birthday and have released new photos to celebrate. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released two new photos Tuesday evening, to mark the young Royal’s birthday. The future king turns seven on Wednesday. Read more: Royal Family releases new
A little after 8 a.m. on Tuesday in London, the designer Vivienne Westwood suspended herself in a bird cage 10 feet in the air outside of a criminal court. Wearing a canary yellow suit, she was protesting Julian Assange’s potential extradition from Britain to the United States, where he’s been charged with conspiracy to hack
Kanye West has been reported by multiple outlets to be experiencing a major manic episode over the last couple weeks. Last night, the rapper went on a Twitter rant about his wife Kim Kardashian trying to intervene and get him help following his South Carolina campaign rally on Sunday. He asserting on Twitter that she
Nick Cannon’s daytime talk show is no longer launching this fall, following the controversy over his comments felt by many to be anti-Semitic, and his subsequent apology. The new show was supposed to start in September, but Lionsgate says it wants to continue the healing process as Cannon meets with leaders of the Jewish community.
According to conservative-media networks, Portland is a city engulfed in “riots” and “unrest,” where it’s “unclear how long this violence will last.” Their most important viewer, Donald Trump, describes Portland as “totally out of control” and progressively crumbling after “50 days of anarchy,” claims the president cited while justifying his decision to dispatch federal agents
An online petition is urging Trader Joe’s to eliminate its racist packaging for international products. “The grocery chain labels some of its ethnic foods with modifications of ‘Joe’ that belies a narrative of exoticism that perpetuates harmful stereotypes,” writes the petition’s creator, Briones Bedell, who, according to the New York Times, is a high school
U.S. President Donald Trump retweeted a re-election video on Twitter with Fleurie and Jung Youth’s cover of Linkin Park’s song In the End on Saturday. In response, Linkin Park took to Twitter to reveal that they never authorized the use of any of their music for Trump campaign videos. “Linkin Park did not and does not
But for all of Michele’s thought experimentation over the past few months, his Gucci clothes haven’t changed much since he first jolted the runway with his raided-Granny’s-attic vibe in 2015. While some pieces that are now Gucci staples—the logo-kitsch tracksuits, the fur-lined loafers—may feel very 2018, the global thrift shopper aesthetic remains remarkably intact and
Canadian comedian John Hastings wowed the judges when he performed to an almost entirely empty theatre on America’s Got Talent (AGT). Ahead of his set, Toronto-born Hastings explained that he was born three months premature with dyspraxia, a neurological disorder that impacts an individual’s ability to plan and process motor tasks. “It’s a pretty rare