Новости за 22.12.2015

At this very moment, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is in New Orleans shooting something that is probably definitely a new music video. This is not a drill (I think).

Ecuadorian and Colombian authorities recently captured a narco sub and its three jittery crew members near the Galapagos Islands after a four-day pursuit; the submarine was carrying 3 metric tons of cocaine. That is very “wow”!

A study from the New York Consumer Affairs Board has found that women’s products are priced higher than the men’s product equivalent by an average of 7 percent, and that we pay more than men 42 percent of the time. Now if that ain’t some bullshit!

For 2015’s look back at Jezebel’s “best” posts of the year, I elicited nominations from our staff, but instead of having individuals explain why their own posts were good, I wrote the blurbs about them. Tricky, hmm? Yes, agreed.

Let me clarify: I don’t actually hate Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I watched the movie three times in four days, and will surely see at least twice more before it leaves theaters. But even though I love the movie, there is one major aspect of it that distresses me immensely. Major spoilers ahead...

Might not feel like it, but today—December 22—is the first day of winter, which means that blessed, precious sunlight will soon return. As for the cold weather, that can be remedied with one of these cunning midcentury coats.

For about one month every year, regardless of the state of her career , Mariah Carey is relevant thanks to the endurance of practically everyone’s favorite Christmas song, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” In fact, this year, it went Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in its 21 years in existence (this is mostly due to Billboard’s regularly shuffling rules for the tally, which currently allow recurrent tracks to chart, regardless of age).

Finland turns 100 years old in 2017, which gives every country who claims to be Finland’s “friend” 12 more months to figure out what to get them for their birthday. Many countries, like the United States, plan on emailing them an Amazon gift card, but their closest pal—the one they literally share a border (and all their deepest secrets) with—has chosen something more thoughtful: a mountain.

In the 8 years since Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered, people have been asking, “Why is this family famous?” Some have argued that it’s because of Kim’s sex tape. Some dramatically blame the degradation of Western culture.

Another chapter is unfolding in the story of the fraudulent chocolate makers the Mast Brothers, dubbed the “Milli Vanilli of chocolate” for their practices of remelting industrial chocolate and selling it as “bar-to-bean.” In an emo open letter on Tuesday, the bros announced that they’re stepping away from the mean, mean chocolate industry for kinder, gentler waters…most likely, the waters in their very expensive Brooklyn brownstones.

That guy on the left knows what’s up.

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Six months ago, the Huffington Post’s Highline published a disturbing piece about backstory behind The Runaways, the manufactured tough-girl group that rocketed Joan Jett, above, to fame. The band’s former bassist, Jackie Fuchs, says producer Kim Fowley raped her in front of the band; now, she says, Jett and her other bandmates still haven’t really responded to her or her story.

There have been unified aesthetics in history—art deco, rococo, Danish modern. But there’s probably never been any sensibility quite as specific, as honed, as that of the Lillian Vernon catalog. Which is precisely what made its founder such a success story.

Whether or not you watched the fifth season of Game of Thrones, you likely caught wind of the controversy surrounding its especially gratuitous violence against women. Even fans of the show condemned certain scenes—Sansa Stark’s rape in particular—as both excessive and lazy plot devices. And what do you know? The showrunners have tempered the sixth season in direct response of these criticisms.

When I told the woman at the hotel check-in desk what I’d come for, I almost whispered it out of shame.

On Monday, a grand jury in Waller County, Texas declined to indict any of the employees at the country jail where Sandra Bland was found hanging in a cell from a trash bag. Today, Bland’s family says it was “disappointed” but expected this kind of “sham.”

On Monday, Gov. Chris Christie responded to a question about transgender bathrooms by talking about terrorism in a very authentically Republican move.

On Sunday night, a woman reported to be radio shock jock Anthony Cumia’s girlfriend livestreamed a video from his home in which she said he had just physically assaulted her: “I got my hand broken, I’m waiting for police to come,” she said, showing the camera her bruises. Cumia has been criminally charged, and his fans are taking it real, real well.

The Affair moonlights as a mystery, the question of who hit and killed wayward junkie Scott Lockhart with their car threading through and unraveling the whole of the show, which wrapped its second season Sunday night. (As a plot device, vehicular manslaughter also propelled a show that, without it, would consist entirely of people alternately arguing and fucking.)

This is the undoing of the holidays. Whatever happiness we find in being with family and friends, having time off from work, eating with abandon, listening to uplifting music, and receiving thoughtful gifts from loved ones has been erased by this image of Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton kissing in the woods.

Guys...I think I’m in love!

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Though some of us have given up on New Girl, others still find the 21 minutes it requires to view an episode a imminently relaxing, no-obligations time. Sure, it’s not the joy it once was, but who wants to dwell on the past? Apparently not these kids: the new season—which premieres January 5—features Megan Fox as their new roommate, who maybe had an intimate past encounter with CeCe.

Jennifer Lawrence went on Watch What Happens Live! with Andy Cohen Monday night—not your usual stop on an A-list publicity tour—to express her love for Bravo and answer some unusually probing questions.

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