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On Friday, Lori Harvey celebrated her 26th birthday in West Hollywood, and she arrived at the event on the arm of her new boyfriend, British actor Damson Idris. They were photographed walking hand-in-hand outside the Lavo Ristorante dressed to the nines. Harvey was wearing a form-fitting black cutout dress, while Idris wore black slacks with

Now that we’re into a new year, the recorded music industry is evaluating the last 12 months. Luminate (formerly Nielsen) is the company that monitors all the music Canadians buy and listen to, from streams to CDs to LPs to cassettes. Here are some highlights from 2022. Total consumption of music was up. Read more:

Twelve-year-old me is finally getting my wish of high fantasy books centered around non-European mythology. Sometimes it was hard to ignore that I had more in common with the aliens or monsters than with the elven creatures with pale faces and impossibly blue eyes. Over a decade later, the books I’ve wished for are finally

Tatjana Patitz, one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the 1980s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael’s Freedom! ’90 music video, has died at age 56. Patitz’s death in the Santa Barbara, Calif., area was confirmed by her New York agent, Corinne Nicolas, at the Model CoOp agency.

With Oscar buzz around her performance in Ruben Östlund’s film, De Leon is already the first Filipina actress to be nominated for a Golden Globe. By Raymond Ang January 13, 2023 Courtesy of Sina Östlund If this year’s Golden Globes will be remembered for anything, it’ll be the open-hearted speeches of the year’s winners. There

NOTE: Some of the videos in this article contain offensive language and content. Please watch at your own discretion. Netflix’s latest true crime offering, The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, probably rings a bell if you spent any amount of time online 10 years ago. The documentary focuses on Kai Lawrence McGillivary’s overnight internet celebrity status, which

Season two of Ginny & Georgia was released on Netflix this week and it is already trending on the streaming service. The show is about a charming mom and her beautiful daughter, who she had at a very young age, and their move to a new town. Romance and crime abound. Fans are already wondering

Prince Harry has said he had enough material for two memoirs, but that he held back because he didn’t think his father and brother would “ever forgive” him. In an interview with British newspaper The Telegraph published Saturday, he also said that releasing his memoir wasn’t an attempt “to collapse the monarchy. This is about

Monday was an important day for Neil Druckmann. The cocreator of the beloved postapocalyptic video game The Last of Us had spent about a decade trying to adapt his story of an unlikely duo who band together to survive a harrowing trek across America. Now, finally, he was preparing to attend the glitzy premiere for the nine-episode

Alex Jones, host of the right wing conspiracy theory show InfoWars, was recently ordered to pay nearly one BILLION dollars in damages to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Massacre. Jones claimed that the 2012 massacre of schoolchildren by shooter Adam Lanza was a hoax staged by gun control activists to erode

Justin Roiland, the co-creator and main voice actor of animated TV series Rick and Morty, is facing trial for allegedly assaulting a former girlfriend in 2020. The criminal complaint, which was first reported by NBC News, charges Roiland, 42, with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false

The new trailer for the hit Showtime series teases more darkness, more creepy symbols and Elijah Wood. By Grant Rindner January 13, 2023 Jasmin Savoy Brown, Liv Hewson and Samantha Hanratty in Yellowjackets.Courtesy of Colin Bentley for Showtime Networks Inc via Everett Collection Showtime’s dark drama Yellowjackets became a sleeper hit not long after its winter 2021

Two opposing but not mutually exclusive stories about our current political scene appear in this issue, an apt way to begin a year that will be the gathering before the storm. Let’s start with one perspective: optimism. As Eric Lutz reports in his column “From the Brink,” in the places where election denial was on

Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, died Thursday at 54 after being hospitalized for cardiac arrest. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement Thursday evening.  “She was the most passionate, strong

Rihanna’s Super Bowl performance is now officially less than a month away, scheduled for February 12. To celebrate, she and Apple Music released the first trailer for her headlining set. The video is short but full of high fashion, featuring Rihanna strutting in a real look (featuring a luxurious coat by Area) while voices in

Just weeks after finalizing his divorce from Kim Kardashian, Kanye West has reportedly married one of his employees, Bianca Censori. According to TMZ, the marriage of West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, and Censori isn’t technically legal because they haven’t applied for a marriage certificate yet, but the outlet reports that they

The former congressman and newly minted CNN commentator tells Vanity Fair there are “no heroes” in today’s GOP, sounds off on Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership, and reflects on the Jan. 6 committee’s legacy. “I think the biggest impact will just be in the arc of history,” he says. By Eric Lutz January 13, 2023

Marvel is gearing up to officially kick off Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. With a premiere date of February 17, the film has already released its final trailer and given viewers the most in-depth look at the quantum realm so far. It also excited fans by quietly

The biggest production in Alberta’s history debuts this weekend and many in the local film industry hope the highly anticipated show, as well as other prominent productions, spur more Hollywood interest in the province. The post-apocalyptic HBO series The Last of Us premieres on Jan. 15, and shooting took place at several locations across Alberta

The Queensbridge veteran talks making a sequel to his acclaimed debut album more than twenty years after its release. By Amreeka January 12, 2023 Cormega.Courtesy of Amreeka. Hip-hop mogul Marley Marl once dubbed Cormega “the original gangsta rapper from Queensbridge” for his starkly lyrical accounts of life in Queens, NY’s Queensbridge Houses, the largest housing

Lisa Marie Presley, famous from the second she was born as the only child to Elvis and Priscilla Presley, died Thursday night after being rushed to the hospital earlier in the day following a cardiac arrest. She was 54. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful

Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, has died at 54 after being hospitalized for cardiac arrest, her mother Priscilla Presley said. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement Thursday evening.  “She

During Netflix’s Tudum day in 2022, Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher revealed more details of their anticipated romantic comedy, Your Place Or Mine. Though both actors are well-known for their contributions to the genre, they’ve never been paired up before. It should be an exciting cross over for lovers of love stories. Here’s what we

The Flash star Ezra Miller has agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of trespassing after they were accused of burglarizing a Vermont home and stealing several bottles of alcohol last year. In August, Miller, who uses they/them pronouns, pleaded not guilty to unlawful trespassing, two charges of burglary in an unoccupied dwelling, and

The prince’s record-smashing book blitz, on the heels of a hit Netflix docuseries, is driving blockbuster sales while also drawing some scorn. “Just a giant pity party,” scoffed one Hollywood exec. Now that all the dirt’s been spilled, where does the royal couple’s Obamas-inspired nine-figure media enterprise go from here? By Joe Pompeo January 12,

One of the better and certainly most shocking moments of the 2023 Golden Globes was when host Jerrod Carmichael took a dig at Tom Cruise for returning his Golden Globes in 2021 and said they should be exchanged in return for “the safe return of Shelley Miscavige.” You can see the clip here from Leah

Canadian “Jeopardy” champion Mattea Roach will face off against other elite players in a new spinoff picked up by ABC. “Jeopardy! Masters” will pit six recent super-champions against each other. A different combination of competitors will play two “high-stakes games” in each hour-long episode. The first class of “masters” will also include Matt Amodio, Sam

A new Mission: Impossible, the Beyoncé Tour, the return of Perry Mason and more. By The Editors of GQ January 11, 2023 Photographs: Getty Images, Everett Collection; Collage: Gabe Conte We’re only a couple of weeks into January, and most of our New Year’s resolutions have already been shot to hell. But here’s one we can

Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock `n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar player, has died. He was 78. Beck died Tuesday after “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis,” his representatives said in a statement released Wednesday. The location