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Though The Tragically Hip knows how important it is for some people to play My Music At Work, they don’t seem to want Pierre Poilievre to use their tunes for his. When band’s guitarist Paul Langlois was notified that The Tragically Hip’s 1993 hit song Fifty-Mission Cap was played at an event for Conservative Party

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January Jones is sick of auditioning over Zoom. Variety reports that over the weekend the Mad Men actor took to her Instagram Stories to express her frustration with virtual auditions: “Note to Hollywood: It’s time for casting directors to come back into the office like everyone else. To audition actors in person.” Jones took on

Emma Heming Willis, the wife of actor Bruce Willis, has asked the paparazzi to leave him alone in public following his recently announced dementia diagnosis. In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Heming Willis called for photographers to “keep your space” around the 67-year-old actor. She posted the video to raise awareness about the

Clockwise from top left: Marcello Hernández, Michael Longfellow, Molly Kearney, Devon Walker, Sarah Sherman, James Austin Johnson. After a slew of exits, Saturday Night Live is reloading—with a squad of young comics that could form the nucleus of the show for years to come. By Luke Leifeste Photography by Tyrell Hampton March 6, 2023 GQ

On Saturday night, Nick Jonas and wife Priyanka Chopra left a Paris Fashion Week party hand-in-hand together looking chic and fashionable as always. Chopra wore a cream-colored midi dress with a mock turtleneck under a long warm brown coat, and knee-high khaki suede boots with pointed toes. She had her dark brown hair down and

My Hero Academia is now a few episodes into its final saga, and holy lord. Overall, season six—which technically began in the fall 2022 season—has done an excellent job of illustrating the series’ increased stakes. Each episode has been completely engrossing, the fights all nail-biting. But the second half of the season is where the

Which streaming service has the best programming in March if you only want to pay for one? By Tara Ariano March 3, 2023 There’s a good chance that, if you’re in front of a screen this March, it’s going to be because you’re watching college basketball. But those student-athletes do, on occasion, have to take

Best Breakthrough PerformanceWINNER: Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once Frankie Corio, AftersunGracija Filipović, MurinaLily McInerny, Palm Trees and Power LinesDaniel Zolghadri, Funny Pages Best ScreenplayWINNER: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once Kogonada, After YangLena Dunham, Catherine Called BirdyTodd Field, TárSarah Polley, Women Talking Best First ScreenplayWINNER: John Patton Ford, Emily

On Saturday, Prince Harry sat down with Dr. Gabor Maté to discuss his popular memoir Spare, discussing the book’s themes around trauma and healing. The book covers many aspects of Harry’s life, which included the loss of his mother Princess Diana at a young age, an extremely public youth and young adulthood, alienation from his

After two fairly neatly-themed months of The Mary Sue Book Club, we’re back to a mix of stories that have very little in common. Well, except that they overlap with the many interests of TMS readers! Some of these books may look familiar. We’ve featured about half of them on our most anticipated books and

Tom Sizemore, the “Saving Private Ryan” actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died Friday at age 61. The actor had suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18 at his home in Los Angeles. He died in his sleep Friday at a hospital in

Austin Butler may actually keep talking in Elvis Presley’s voice.Courtesy of Warner Bros via Everett Collection A vocal coach explains how the Oscar nominee may have physically changed under the intense pressure of playing the King. By Tara Ariano March 3, 2023 Since its release last June, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis has been a nearly constant source of

Decades after the birth of ’70s style, there’s no better time than the present for the drop of Daisy Jones and the Six. The new ’70s-set drama series on Prime Video, adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel of the same name, has arrived at a moment in the modern trend cycle when flare jeans

In the latest example of American culture’s descent into late capitalism, people on the internet are upset about the so-called “morality” of another giant corporation’s ad campaign and we actually should probably pay attention. Yes, hello, Hershey’s my old friend, the conservatives are freaking out about your marketing again.  People who hate transgender people are

Backstage at Madison Square Garden, the rap legend reflects on his early triumphs—and a late-career resurgence unprecedented in hip-hop. By Elliott Wilson Photography by Flo Ngala March 2, 2023 GQ Hype: It’s the big story of right now. It’s hard to believe at this stage of his 30-plus-year career that rap legend Nas has never

This story contains spoilers for the Harlem season 2 finale. Tracy Oliver craves stories that put women’s messiness front and center. The ones with compelling characters with big emotions who come undone, or who comfortably take up space while prioritizing their pleasure and peace, even if it rocks the boat. Oliver, who is the series

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Rapper Travis Scott has been accused of assaulting a sound engineer and causing US$12,000 (nearly $16,350) in damages to AV equipment in a New York nightclub early Wednesday morning. The New York Police Department is currently investigating the allegations against Scott, 31. There are no official charges

Super fans of Pedro Pascal know what episodes of television we need to watch to see him pop up. Not just things like The Mandalorian or Game of Thrones or even The Last of Us. We know he’s in those, he’s the star of them. I’m talking about the guest roles or the side characters

The biggest tech story of the year is shaping up around the seemingly sudden arrival of AI chatbots into mainstream attention: piggybacking off last year’s viral reception to text-to-image generators like DALL-E 2, the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November has since spurred not only widespread media coverage and netizen adoption, but also an industry-wide arms race. Whatever

Britain’s domestic intelligence agency didn’t act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England, an inquiry found Thursday. Read more: ‘We can’t wrap our children in cotton wool’: Parents of teenage Manchester victims speak out

Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye star in HBO’s controversial series The Idol.Courtesy of HBO. Levinson allegedly wrote disturbing sexual scenes for the music industry drama starring Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp. By Grant Rindner March 1, 2023 HBO’s The Idol is poised to be one of 2023’s most talked about and polarizing shows…if it ever even

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Justin Bieber has officially cancelled the remaining dates in his Justice World Tour that would have seen the singer perform in the U.S., Europe, Australia and parts of Asia. The official social media account for Bieber’s tour shared the news on Tuesday. Read more: Woody Harrelson raises

The Native American plotline in 1923, Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel, is at once hard to watch and hard to look away from. That’s because it’s a brutally honest representation of the unimaginable horrors that countless tribal peoples endured at boarding schools across North America, where they were forced to abandon their Native traditions and assimilate

Big Brother Canada is back for its 11th season, and it looks like it’s going to be a mysterious one. Filled with secrets, twists and turns and plenty of drama, each #BBCAN11 houseguest will be painted a suspect in a diabolical game of whodunit. And, of course, there’s a new cast of 16 eager Canadians

Bette Midler has her tailor to thank for her ageless appearance. The actor joked about undergoing cosmetic procedures during her acceptance speech at the Costume Designers Guild Awards on Monday night, per Page Six. While accepting the Distinguished Collaborator Award for her decades of support of the costume design industry, Midler joked, “Time has a

Republicans, the party that keeps trying to outlaw basic human rights, are at it again. In Florida, Republicans are trying to “cancel” the Democratic party in the state. Yes, the same people who say cancel culture is ruining the country are trying to cancel their political opponents. I guess getting rid of healthcare for their

Chase Stokes in Outer Banks season 3. Cr. Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix © 2023Courtesy of Jackson Lee Davis for Netflix. The latest season of the Netflix hit put John B.—and the man who plays him—through the wringer. By Kaitlyn McNab February 28, 2023 This article contains spoilers for season three of Outer Banks. John B. Routledge