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Welcome to Better Than It Looks, a series in which we discuss the recipes we tried (and maybe failed) to execute, and the foods that were served to us by someone perhaps more talented than ourselves.

Perfect timing: Universal Studios has announced a new Jimmy Fallon-themed ride debuting in 2017. Unfortunately, the fun doesn’t consist of falling over and breaking your extremities while toting a bottle of Jäger. Where’s the realism, Hollywood?

In case you had any doubt that Shonda Rhimes is the person keeping the lights on at ABC, her name is now attached to yet another upcoming project. This time, Scandal’s Kerry Washington and Katie Lowes will executive produce a series about a group of nannies under her production company.

Don’t worry, America, you won’t miss the sparkles this year: Fox has picked up broadcast rights for the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. NBC previously had the franchise, which it dropped as part of its great divorce from The Donald in the uproar over his execrable comments about Mexican immigrants.

You can’t run. You can’t hide. Every day, it gets closer, and one day, it will be here, bringing with it UNSEEN and UNSPEAKABLE horror!

According to the New York Times, one fallout of the Ashley Madison leak is that some online daters are now hiring private investigators to look into the marital status of their online prospects. That’s bleak, guys.

Please do not panic, this is only a warning: Two days from now (the Friday before Halloween), Chrissy Teigen will appear on American television in a costume so horrifying that you may want to make sure your children are out of the room when you watch FABlife (your favorite afternoon show presented by Tyra Banks). No, Teigen’s not going to be a witch or a vampire bat, she’s going as something much scary: Mayor of Flavortown and Donkey Sauce enthusiast Guy Fieri.

Despite your foggy memories involving the Great Depression, the origins of the board game Monopoly go further back, to a largely forgotten activist named Lizzie Magie. And now that story—involving anti-monopolists, Atlantic City Quakers, and toymakers—might be made into a movie.

On Wednesday afternoon, House Republicans voted to nominate Rep. Paul Ryan to be the next Speaker of the House. The vote was reportedly divvied up between Ryan and Rep. Daniel Webster, who received 200 and 43 votes respectively. Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Kevin McCarthy both received one vote.

Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we meet someone at work , find out they love tabloids, are all “Oh yes bitch me too” and then get a text from them the next day that’s like “BITCH LET’S GO TO FLORIDA,” so we drive to Florida and read tabloids by the pool all weekend lmaoooooooo.

On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton had a relatively light-hearted interview with Stephen Colbert. Her first visit to what she called the “cathedral of Colbert,” comes in the middle of a media blitz of sorts; from a dance lesson Ellen to playing a bartender on Saturday Night Live.

Keeping with the spirit of the season, the Associated Press brings us the story witch priestess Lori Sforza and warlock Christian Day. Sforza who, in addition to her duties of a witch priestess at a “pagan church,” is the owner of a witchcraft shop in Salem, Massachusetts. She claims that Day, a warlock and owner of occult shops in both New Orleans and Salem, has harassed her “online and over the phone for three years.”

Almost immediately after Pitch Perfect 2 hit theaters, Rebel Wilson told the Los Angeles Times that a Pitch Perfect 3 was in the works . That was in March and, at the time, only Wilson was confirmed for the film. Now The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Elizabeth Banks has signed on to direct the third installment of the series.

The World Cup-winning U.S.women’s national soccer team was honored in a ceremony today at the White House. The ceremony was chummy, and the President was at his most compelling. “This team taught all of America’s children that ‘playing like a girl’ means you’re a badass,” he said.

It’s rare that I get to sincerely compliment a Kardashian, so let’s savor this moment: It’s pretty refreshing how much Kim Kardashian openly hates being pregnant. As she recently put it on her website, “I’m feeling like a fucking whale.”

In today’s Tweet Beat, a peak into Orange Is the New Black, Zooey Deschanel brainstorms Halloween costumes and did you know what Wiz Khalifa smokes weed?

Less than a year after the release of Wild, the film based upon author Cheryl Strayed’s memoir by the same name, HBO has announced the production of a drama series based on her collection of “Dear Sugar” advice columns, Tiny Beautiful Things.

As someone who loves most major holidays, I’ve seen my fair share of neighborhood light shows put together by families to display their holiday cheer. Some are great, some are mediocre (a house down the street from me is lovingly referred to as “the house santa jizzed on” based on the fact that it’s just sparkles and white ropes of lights hanging down), and some, like the house you’ll see above, are pure masterpieces.

On Tuesday, the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity announced that it would officially leave the North American Interfraternity Conference, citing “counterproductive tactics.”

During a press conference today. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott addressed the public about the disturbing video out of Spring Valley High School where a white officer is seen pulling a student out of her desk, slamming her on the ground, dragging and arresting her. The young black woman is not seen resisting arrest or inciting violence in any way.

Prepare to mourn martini and gimlet fans: the juniper plant that produces delicious gin is under attack by a deadly fungus—and so close to the holidays!

Thinx and New York City’s MTA have found common ground in their week-long public fight over period panty advertisements on the subway.

This August, Harris Faulkner (the woman) sued Hasbro for $5 million because she and her lawyers thought Harris Faulkner (a toy hamster) had used her name and likeness without permission. Monday, Hasbro filed back and was like, “Excuse me, Harris Faulkner (the woman), you’re being absolutely ridiculous and we have no time for any of this.”

Dan Stevens wasn’t killed off in an especially romantic way at the end of his tenure on Downton Abbey, and now it seems he may be in danger of death-by-monster-reptile. He has just been cast as Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend in Colossal, a film about a woman who experiences a telepathic connection with a giant lizard. (No, you did not accidentally end up on Clickhole; this is a real film.)

In her 81 years on Earth, including a long former career as a journalist, Gloria Steinem has only written six books, three of which are essay compilations. None are specifically about her life, despite its figurative importance to so many people; she’s never quite explained how she’s accomplished all that she has, how she never appears fully frazzled, given real dirt on personal relationships—any of the things large audiences presumably want to know. Her new book My Life on the Road, out today... Читать дальше...