Новости за 19.09.2015

This December will mark the return of Transparent, Amazon’s breakout series in which Jeffrey Tambor plays a transgender woman who comes out to her dysfunctional family. For its second season, the show is welcoming a very special addition to its cast: Angelica Huston! The actress will be playing a “new friend” of Maura, Tambor’s character.

For the second year in a row, the Washington Post reports, a watersnake in Missouri gave birth without having had any contact with any male snakes (for the last eight years). (Nice.)

Yesterday, a U. S. District Court in Northern California ruled that the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the group that has released “sting” videos targeting Planned Parenthood, must turn over evidence. The Hill reports: “Judge William Orrick said in a hearing that the Center for Medical Progress must comply with the court’s requests for documents, escalating the weeks-long legal battle over the secret videos.”

Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, continues to interfere with court orders.

Partially overturning a New Jersey Superior Court’s dismissal without trial of a lawsuit against an Atlantic City Casino, judges at a state appeals court ruled on Thursday that the Casino’s controversial weight gain policy for its cocktail servers is legal.

For a woman who spent much of her life pinched for pennies, Jane Austen sure makes a handy marketing tool today. For example, on my way into a Jane Austen Festival dance workshop at the local Guildhall (another soaring, cake-like interior), I was handed a flyer for a “Georgian Lunch Menu,” offering 20 percent off for anybody in period costume.

A North Carolina bar owner who threw out a pair of gay customers is feeling extremely whiny and aggrieved over the fact that she’s being taken to task for it. Of course she is.

What would college football be without its proud traditions? Its storied rivalries, marching bands, fight songs, and casual sexism. Good job, Alabama fan, you’re making Bear Bryant proud.

I first met Kate in 2011, when we both joined Pizza Island, a shared studio space in Brooklyn, and of course I adored her immediately. Kate’s the real deal (as if you could have any doubt). Whenever I move, her books are the ones I put in the “I need these right away” box: they’re funny, educational, and comforting to reread over and over. I was thrilled to catch up with Kate and talk about her new book Step Aside Pops and other important matters.

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Last night Jessica Simpson tried to sell her clothing line on HSN and the results were, well, mixed. Many believed that Simpson was drunk, slurring her words and talking about her sister’s grey jeans. Nick Lachey reportedly said he was “embarrassed” for his ex-wife. According to an “insider”: “Nick says Jessica will most likely deny any reports that she was intoxicated. He’s just glad that he’s not in that chaotic mess of a relationship anymore!” Good, glad to see he’s moved on.

While tonight’s Late Show interview with Bernie Sanders was absent any of the respective tears or deep, deep discomfort that characterized Colbert’s two biggest moments so far (and at least compared to every other candidate interview we’ve seen), Sanders still manages to leave you with the impression that the man is just so goddamn human.

Last week, our beloved writer Mark Shrayber and his now-husband Allen Corona became the first couple to complete the marriage process in Morehead County, Kentucky, after Kim Davis’s release from jail. Congratulations, Mark, and if you missed the story, catch up here.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Madonna is getting ideas, Kanye makes someone wear some very big boots and the Pope needs our prayers.

Here’s a lesson in self-love: Monkeys love themselves so much that they perk up when watching programming featuring monkeys, according to a new study.

Relevant news for those of you who were planning to leave your home in the care of a sitter the next time you go on vacation: A San Francisco couple hired someone to take care of their house while they frolicked at Burning Man, and were shocked to find that the guy watching over their castle was renting it on Airbnb for a tidy profit. How’d they find out? The dude accidentally booked the couple’s friends as guests.

After having 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed arrested for bringing a cool homemade clock to school that his teacher then mistook for a bomb, MacArthur High School wants to welcome him back. Mohamed is like, “No thanks.”