Новости за 05.11.2015

Last week, Page Six published a story that grabbed my attention in all the wrong ways. They reported that Kate Hudson’s ex-fiancé, Matt Bellamy, was seen “flaunting” his new girlfriend around town. Wait just a second, I thought. You can’t flaunt someone else! You can only flaunt yourself!

If any of your walls look a little bare, Amazon’s taking an extra 20% off nearly 100,000 pieces of hangable art from iCanvas, including Banksy prints.

We’ve just barely gotten over the roller coaster that was Season 10 of Real Housewives of Orange County and now their friends up north are back. The trailer for the sixth season Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is here.

Rick Santorum is, technically, still running for president. It’s understandable if you didn’t recall that fact. Nobody does.

Ronda Rousey is many things: she’s a fighter , a UFC champion, a burgeoning actor . She is not, however, a sex therapist.

Last night, at the CMA Awards, rising country star Chris Stapleton and former Mouseketeer Justin Timberlake performed a duet, in which Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” slides into Timberlake’s “Drink You Away.” It’s so good I am feeling actual longing in my heart right now, likely related to my overpowering weakness for watching men display unconscious manual competence (in this case both of them), or specifically for watching men (in this case Timberlake) play guitar with the type of specific... Читать дальше...

When you own an extensive art collection—as does Queen Elizabeth II—you’ll occasionally need to send a couple of pieces out for some restoration work. Which is how conservators uncovered a man popping a squat and taking a poop in the corner of a 17th century Dutch painting that once belonged to George IV.

The past month or so has seen the publication of two books from men who, a decade ago, created questionable blueprints of what dating should be like for an entitled generation of dudes. Unexpectedly (to their former selves, at least) the new stories from these teachers—who, not so long ago, were demonstrating how to sleep with whatever woman you want—are about how their old stories failed them. Neil Strauss grew out of The Game, and Tucker Max out of being an asshole who finishes first. These men... Читать дальше...

“Alive,” the inaugural single off Sia’s forthcoming album This Is Acting was released over a month ago, but its accompanying video only dropped today. Once again, Sia is absent, instead featuring a bewigged and bite-sized doppelgänger: Mahiro Takano.

A record number of women are now New York City firefighters, with four new women set to complete the punishing probationary period and testing to graduate on Friday. They include a single mom, a former Marine, an electrician, and a woman who trained alongside her two brothers. And now for the depressing part: with the four new graduates, the FDNY has a total of 49 women, or less than 0.5 percent of the 11,000-person department.

The biggest country stars in the world did their best to look polished and modern at Wednesday night’s CMA Awards, but some fared better than others. See all the cowboy hats, embroidery and coordinated couples below.

A television network in India was censured for airing a Grey’s Anatomy scene that featured a “homosexual encounter,” which reportedly violated broadcast guidelines.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is turning up the berners underneath his pot of Hillary Clinton soup. Haha, nailed it.

Here’s a hot bowl of nostalgia to enjoy. Cast members from The Baby-Sitters Club, the 1995 film based on Ann M. Martin’s popular series, came together for a recent screening in Austin, Texas. Director Melanie Mayron and several cast members, including Rachael Leigh Cook, Larisa Oleynik, Schuyler Fisk and Marla Sokoloff, were all in attendance to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary.

Katy Perry is sitting on a throne of cash, thanks to the $135 million she made this past year. Forbes put Perry at the top of their Top Earning Women in Music list for 2015 — a big jump from her fifth place position last year. Perry’s nemesis, Taylor Swift, came in second at $80 million.

R.I.P. Hipster Barbie™. The 20-year-old Portland native who created the satirical account to take jabs at Instagram’s try-hard community, is saying peace to her 1.3 million followers.

After months of speculation and head scratching, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have finally confirmed their romance is real— just in time for tonight’s Country Music Awards. Stefani’s rep told Us Weekly, “Gwen and Blake are longtime friends who have very recently started dating.”

In today’s Tweet Beat, Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are a great couple, Cher had a mid-life crisis and the cast of the Hunger Games seem to be enjoying themselves.

Here’s a gentle reminder that the strangers you add on Facebook aren’t really your friends, no matter how many times they like your photos: An Australian woman is out nearly $900 after she posted a photo of herself with a winning horse race ticket and one of her electronic buddies took it upon themselves to claim the prize for themselves.

On Wednesday, New York Daily News reporter Shaun King was asked to appear on CNN with Don Lemon via email. He declined, rather emphatically: “I will never appear anywhere with Don for the rest of my natural life.” King then posted the email exchange on Twitter and Facebook and promptly received cease and desist notices from both platforms, along with threats to freeze his accounts. What happened?

A couple weeks after Maxim announced that its first woman editor-in-chief Kate Lanphear was leaving , WWD reports that Lanphear is being replaced by Glenn O’Brien, who is a man.

When reformed Instagram “influencer” Essena O’Neill tearfully turned her back on social media this week for being “fake,” her *former* friends, YouTube celebrities Nina and Randa, put up their own video to prove that actually Essena is fake, hello! Teens, am I right? Wrong: guess how old Nina and Randa are?

Losing presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich is an asshole, and he’s worked tirelessly to build that reputation from the ground up.

Rebecca Solnit, the essayist best known for Men Explain Things to Me—a book whose lens on gender and violence expands much further than the brief excerpt on “mansplaining” that it’s become known for—has written a new essay for Harper’s called “The Mother of All Questions,” and it’ll be one of the best things, easily, that you could read this week. The opening:

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.