Новости за 31.12.2015

Are you guys so excited for New Year’s Eve?!? Wow. Honestly that’s very messed up of you—number one, because it’s terrible, and number two because it ushers in the day on which we are all most likely to meet our respective makers.

Why, hello. And a happy New Year to you.

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What right do we have to discuss the divorces of people we barely know? None, arguably, but nonetheless, in the world of celebrity divorce blogging, there’s the good (a divorce that’s seemingly harmless but becomes fodder for enough gossip that it leads to headlines for months) and the bad (a divorce that’s just sad, depressing and heartbreaking). 2015 seemed, as all years do, to be ripe with celebrity splits. But that being said, some rose above the pack, noteworthy for their surprise factor or the partners involved or the nannies involved... Читать дальше...

Rihanna is the most important millennial of our time. The Rihanna Rihport is where we chronicle the magnitude of her lived existence.

Leaning on a cane and his lawyer Monique Pressley, a sweater-clad Bill Cosby arrived at a Pennsylvania courthouse Wednesday, where he was arraigned on charges of aggravated indecent assault. But Pressley claims it’s all the result of the district attorney’s office playing politics.

A week or so after Ben Carson told the Associated Press he was planning a “major shakeup” to his campaign , both his campaign manager and his communications director have quit, just a month before the Iowa caucuses. They were reportedly feuding with Carson due to his unofficial adviser and spokesperson, conservative columnist Armstrong Williams. Everything’s fine though!

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I believe Steve Harvey’s crowning of the wrong Miss Universe was staged. I believe he and a handful of pageant organizers planned the now-notorious moment to boost awareness for the pageant, as well as for Harvey and his talk show. Why do I think this was all one big publicity stunt? Because I have a nose for bullshit that’s right almost 49 percent of the time. And, reports TMZ, so does Arianda Guitierrez, aka Miss Colombia.

Coachella—the annual gathering of the ugh-galos in Indio, California—is scheduled for April 15-17 and April 22-24. Rumors are already swirling about two major band reunions during the 2016 festival and if they prove true (they’ve been all but officially verified by the New York Times), music fans—specifically music-loving dads—will lose their minds.

There’s suddenly a storm of outburts about a week-old interview that George Lucas had with Charlie Rose. It’s the one where he compared selling Lucasfilm to Disney as selling his children to “white slavers .” This was a stupid thing to say, but not really a new note for Lucas to hit.

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On a Wednesday night in mid-November, I arrived at Painting Lounge with a bottle of wine in my left hand, bracing myself for the worst.

Is there anything as ephemeral as a New Year’s Eve broadcast? Fifteen minutes after midnight, it’s already irrelevant. Nothing is timeless; everything is designed for max trendiness, like a Forever21 party dress. Which makes footage from previous years downright vertigo-inducing.

The thing about Jeb! is that his tragic, whingeing presidential campaign has caused us to partially forget what a horrible human being he actually is. Lately, we have started to regard him much in the same way we would regard a man in a Nickelback t-shirt crying softly behind us in line at Subway—he’s a bummer, in a way that’s kind of entertaining.

Welcome to Big Time Small-Time Dicks, a regular column on The Slot that explores local politicians, small-town scandals, and everything else making life miserable on a local level. Know a small time person who is a big time dick we should feature? Email us. This week: BTSTD, Foreign Edition.

In an interview with Charlie Rose, Star War creator George Lucas did a lot of complaining about The Force Awakens—the first installment of the franchise since Lucas sold it to Disney for $4 billion. Of the new film, he said, “They wanted to do a retro movie. I don’t like that... These are my kids, all the Star Wars films. I loved them. I created them.”

As Barack Obama nears the end of his sometimes good, sometimes not-so-good two terms as president, he is developing a healthy case of senioritis. This is good for us, because chill Obama is definitely my best, coolest friend.

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We make a lot of images around here. Below are a whole bunch of our favorites from 2015.

Mall retail chain Old Navy experienced backlash when photos of offensive t-shirts being sold to toddlers started appearing online. The shirts had displayed a slogan that said “Young Aspiring Artist” with the “artist” part crossed out and replaced with either the word “astronaut” or “president.” Rude.

Over the years, studies have shown music listened to during pregnancy may have a positive effect on babies after they are born. Some believe that auditory fetal learning can later help with a child’s memory skills and brain development. A recent study from Barcelona gynecology clinic Institut Marquès has found that fetuses can detect sound as early as 16 weeks.

Russell Bertram, a former police chief from South Dakota who was charged with killing his 26-year-old fiancee, Leonila Stickney, in 2009, took out hundreds of thousands in multiple life insurance policies before she died. He also ended up marrying his fiancee’s sister.

Following yesterday’s arrest of Glee’s Mark Salling for possession of child pornography, TMZ is reporting that images featuring girls under the age of 10 in sexual situations were found on his computer:

In today’s Tweet Beat, Mia Farrow throws down some words, Britney Spears enjoys lunch and Kathy Ireland is a big Janet Jackson fan.

Monaco’s royal twins Jacques and Gabriella recently turned one. Seems somebody at the office of royal affairs heard about the venerable American tradition of Christmas letters and decided to do something similar to mark the occasion—except it’s with video, not cozy, and frankly a bit weird.