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For the second time in nearly four years, Kurt Cobain‘s vintage green cardigan from Nirvana‘s 1993 MTV Unplugged performance has been sold off at an auction. The iconic garment worn by the late Nirvana frontman was listed on Julien’s Auctions under the Icons and Idols: Rock ‘n’ Roll category. It sold for US$334,000 last Saturday, which equates to more than

Selena Gomez had a fifth outfit change yesterday, and it’s exactly what anyone would wear after stepping out in four different chic outfits for a New York City press tour. Gomez went out to Bushwick, Brooklyn with her friends last night, and she took back her title as the queen of comfy clothes. The singer

In a sign of just how desperate Donald Trump and his allies have become in their efforts to put together a coherent defense against Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, allies of the president have adopted a novel approach: smear a Purple Heart recipient as an un-American spy. Alexander Vindman, an Iraq veteran and Ukraine expert on the

Lucasfilm just released the second trailer for the upcoming Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. The one-minute, 45-second, action-packed clip dropped on Monday night, just two weeks before the show’s highly anticipated premiere on Nov. 12. The debut will also mark the official launch of Disney‘s very own streaming service, Disney+. The Mandalorian takes place five years

Donald Trump’s campaign store is selling “witch hunt” merchandise that’s so over-the-top it’s hard to believe that someone signed off on this. One of Trump’s favorite go-tos when his actions are taken into account is to exclaim, often in all-caps on Twitter, “WITCH HUNT!” He did this frequently during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and

A wildfire swept through the star-studded hills of Los Angeles on Monday, destroying several large homes and forcing LeBron James and thousands of others to flee. Meanwhile, a blaze in Northern California wine country exploded in size. The flames that roared up a steep hillside near the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles’ Brentwood section

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may not be “dead in a ditch”—but things still aren’t going great for the embattled Brexiteer. Following a boastful start to his leadership, in which he declared he would deliver Brexit by October 31 “do or die,” Johnson has faced a string of misfortunes as prime minister, as he’s been

Kanye West has always been an evangelist. The now 42-year-old rapper, producer, designer, and new age church leader has spent much of his two-decade career shouting from the mountaintop. He admitted as much in a recent interview with Beats 1. “There was a time when I was letting you know what high fashion had done

Jimmy Eat World has announced a 19-date North American tour set to take place in spring 2020. The Canadian-heavy trek includes 14 dates across the nation from the east coast to the west. The tour which promotes The Middle rockers’ latest album, Surviving, kicks off on April 23 in Hallifax. The final show takes place in Vancouver’s iconic

In the end, it worked: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. special forces raid in Syria, ridding the world of the brutal Islamic State leader and delivering Donald Trump a military victory. But the success of the mission was, it seems, no thanks to the president himself, whose abrupt decision to pull American

Actress Felicity Huffman was released from prison on Friday before her 14-day sentence was over. A federal judge in Boston sentenced Huffman last month to 14 days in prison, a $30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service and a year’s probation after she pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy for paying an admissions consultant $15,000

Frazer HarrisonGetty Images Noah Centineo and his girlfriend Alexis Ren are now red carpet official. The couple made their red carpet debut on Saturday night at the UNICEF’s Masquerade Ball. The couple were rumored to be dating last month when he was seen picking up Ren from the airport. “He picked her up as she

Two women were reportedly kicked out of Downtime Bar NYC on Wednesday after confronting disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. A comedian named Kelly Bachman, who was performing at a private event hosted by Actor’s Hour, pointed out that Weinstein was in the room. “I’m a comic, and it’s our job to name the elephant in

[embedded content] “Try and stay calm, you’re doing very well,” Claes Bang’s Dracula assures a terrified young man in the first footage from The BBC’s new three-part series. It’s as if he were talking directly to creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who chose Bram Stoker’s classic monster to anchor their first new series since

With a name and actions straight out of Game of Thrones, Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, gave testimony (and provided a wealth of information while doing so) to House investigators behind closed doors on Saturday, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to the

The rule in science is that if you discover a new species of animal, you get to give it a two-word Latin name using some hard-and-fast conventions in the area of biological taxonomy. First comes the genus (which is always capitalized) followed by the species. Both are required to be italicized. Latin is used for

[embedded content] How best to describe the star power of Chance the Rapper? He is short-torsoed, goofy-legged joy, goodness and quickness in a Chicago Teachers Union sweatshirt, a lyrical professor, and a kid excited just to be back at the show. He was also the most charismatic host yet of Saturday Night Live season 45.

When most people talk about their middle school band, they speak with distance and healthy amount of self-depreciation. When Nat Wolff talks about his middle school band, he speaks with total clarity, and a tiny bit of bitterness. Maybe that’s to be expected, since his middle school band was not something confined to a box

Saturday Night Live’s latest cold open took aim once again at U.S. President Donald Trump by poking fun at conspiracy theorist Trump fans. Alec Baldwin opened the episode as Trump addressing a rally in New Mexico and displaying a misshapen map of the U.S., flanked by a young woman. READ MORE: Kate McKinnon appears as

Less than two weeks after teasing new music, Coldplay has released two brand new singles, Orphans and Arabesque. The pair dropped on Thursday and serve as the lead singles from the four-piece’s upcoming ninth studio album, Everyday Life, which was announced only a day prior. It will serve as the followup to 2015’s A Head Full of

Khal Drogo, meet Jon Snow. The bookending romances of Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen got together with their queen over the weekend, as star Emilia Clarke shared a reunion of sorts with cast-mates Jason Momoa and Kit Harington. Clarke and Momoa, who never fail to delight followers with joint social media posts, appeared together on

Michael KovacGetty Images Jessica Biel may have already won Halloween and the holiday isn’t even here yet. Biel and her husband, Justin Timberlake, attended the Casamigos Halloween party in Los Angeles on Friday night, along with Lisa Rinna, Paris Hilton, Kaitlynn Carter, and Cindy Crawford. Timberlake dressed as a microphone and Biel dressed as, well,

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is legally changing his name from Sean John Combs to Sean Love Combs. The rapper, who has changed his stage name from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy to Diddy, filed a petition in Los Angeles to change his middle name. The Bad Boy Records founder first said he was going to change

About five years ago, then-President Barack Obama wore a tan suit to the White House briefing room and all hell broke loose. Putting aside all of the bad faith chatter about the dignity of the presidency, the episode drew attention to the fact that it is extremely difficult to pull off a tan suit. Some

A true American hero emerged today at Elijah Cummings’ funeral. One of his pallbearers, going down the line of distinguished statespeople and shaking their hands, passed right by “Moscow Mitch” McConnell. The look between McConnell and Schumer when the brother doesn’t shake Mitch’s hand 💀💀💀👀 pic.twitter.com/UbRXLhtW36 — chris evans (@notcapnamerica) October 24, 2019 A clip

Ballet superstar Karen Kain will retire as artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada in January 2021. The ballet’s board of directors says Kain will step down from the post but remain with the company as artistic director emeritus. The announcement comes nearly 15 years after Kain assumed the creative reins in 2005 and

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman isn’t even out yet—next week!—but it’s already operating in the realm of movie myth. The legendary Joe Pesci, the story already goes, had been retired for years—and then Scorsese and Robert De Niro convinced him to lace up his cleats one more time for The Irishman. (Though not without plenty of

Eminem was interviewed by the U.S. Secret Service over “threatening lyrics” about U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. The records show that Eminem was grilled over his 2017 song Framed, in which he raps about Ivanka Trump being in the trunk of his car. “But dog, how the f—

President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have so far dealt with the impeachment inquiry being led by House Democrats in a familiar way: by attacking the legitimacy of the investigation itself and declaring it to be an unconstitutional sham process. “Your inquiry is constitutionally invalid and a violation of due process,” Counsel to the

After more than four years of waiting, fans of Tame Impala might be pleased to know that the Australian rock project has just announced its fourth studio album, The Slow Rush. The news was revealed on Friday after a video was shared to the band’s official YouTube account. The teaser showed clips of Tame Impala