Новости за 30.04.2018

A student-led lawsuit revealed that the Charles Koch Foundation had a hand in the hiring and firing of George Mason University professors, the Washington Post reports.

Some people hate Queer Eye’s soft-spoken food expert Antoni Porowski. Others, like myself, find him a charming and harmless addition to the new Fab Five. But no matter what you think about Antoni’s personality, fans and enemies can agree on one thing: the man can not cook.

For the past two years, I have felt the walls encroaching in on me. It’s been a slow, almost imperceptible creep, from a time one year ago when I thought, “Tiny glasses? I’ll pass,” to my current, inexplicable need to have one-to-three pairs for the summer. It is as Hazel Cills has soothsayed (soothsaid?): one day we…

Most people know Shayna McHayle by her stage name, Junglepussy, and her powerful, biting raps therein. But as the born-and-raised Brooklynite preps her third album, JP3, out May 11, she’s also adding lines to her resumé. This year, she will make her feature film debut opposite Regina Hall in Support the Girls—a film…

Adult-film actress and perpetual thorn in the Trump administration’s side, Stormy Daniels, is suing Donald Trump for defamation.

Normally, TUMI luggage will run you into the $500s and even more. But with Nordstrom Rack’s sale, you can get your own TUMI carry on, backpack, messenger bag, and luggage for hundreds off list price. I’m not talking a couple hundred, here. You could stand to save almost $400 on certain styles.

The verdict last week in an alleged gang rape case in Pamplona, Spain set off protests that continued into the weekend, reports the New York Times. Five men were accused of raping a woman during the city’s running-of-the-bulls festival—but the court sentenced the men to a lesser charge of sexual abuse.

Some people think Michelle Wolf’s set at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner went too far when she dared to mention that Sarah Huckabee Sanders regularly puts on a smokey eye. This is a tough one!

On Saturday, the New York Times published an extensive report about how a small group of women working at Nike got fed up with their shitty workplace culture and collected data on how said workplace culture had repeatedly failed women.

In the early 1990s, Liz Phair started getting letters.

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In March of this year, Left Bank Pictures, the producers behind Netflix’s monarchy fantasia The Crown, found themselves in hot water after revealing that supporting actor Matt Smith (Prince Philip) takes home a larger salary than star Claire Foy (Queen Elizabeth II). I’ll spare you the details, but they argued Smith…

Shania Twain is pairing up with USA Network for a music competition series called Real Country, and all parties seem to be betting there are a lot of people couldn’t care less that Twain (who’s Canadian) said she would have voted for Trump and then later apologized for it, which failed to impress me.

Origins Friends & Family sale, buy one, get one 60% off sale at Sunglass Warehouse, discounted shoes from Amazon’s in-house brand, The Fix, and more lead Monday’s best lifestyle deals.

Dr. Lucy Jones’ The Big Ones, a brisk look at the cultural impacts of natural disasters, was not as frightening a read as I anticipated—although I do really wish that I hadn’t learned what a “dragon twist” is. (To share my newfound knowledge, it’s a freak tornado of fire that incinerated nearly 40,000 people after the …

A caravan of nearly 200 Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States finally reached the United States, only to be told by border agents that they must continue to wait because the inspection facility had “reached capacity,” the Associated Press reports.

A museum dedicated to Catalan painter Étienne Terrus in his hometown of Elne in Southern France has discovered that 82 of the paintings in their collection are actually counterfeit reproductions. Sabotage!

God bless the Trump PR machine for seeding another nightmare narrative to keep an eye on: Don Jr. might run for office!

The Women of Color committee within Time’s Up has announced they’re joining the online #MuteRKelly campaign.

We haven’t been discussing the recent drama between Miranda Lambert, her ex-husband Blake Shelton, her ex-boyfriend Anderson East, and her current boyfriend Evan Felker, but I will fix that right now, because this story has everything—mainly because no one in the periphery will stop talking.

As Amazon slowly puts department stores out of business, it’s expanding its own fashion department twofold. Right now, Prime Members can try out their in-house shoe brand, The Fix, for up to 30% off. There’s a dozen styles to choose from, each with a very...unique style. If you need statement shoes for under $100,…

I had hoped to make it through the rest of the night without having to spend another minute thinking about Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and I’m sure you did, too. Unfortunately, at 10 p.m. on Sunday, White House Correspondents’ Association President Margaret Talev issued a statement apologizing for…

The Time’s Up organization held a daylong event on Saturday as part of the Tribeca Film Festival, convening panels of Hollywood actors and other #MeToo activists who spoke about the importance of standing up for victims of sexual harassment and abuse. At one event, Lupita Nyong’o joined Amber Tamblyn, Mira Sorvino,…

In 1997, my father took me to see the Special Edition release of Star Wars: A New Hope in theaters. It was my very first Star War, and instantly, I became infatuated with Han Solo. He was a morally ambiguous, sharp-mouthed space smuggler of indeterminate age, with a tuft of chest hair peeking out from his white space…

I do not want to, but I must, because newsmakers spent all day tweeting about this, now ask:

Eons ago, in the year 2008, Miley Cyrus was just about to break away from the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana and embark on a long journey of self-discovery and occasional cultural appropriation. To jumpstart it, she teamed up for a Vanity Fair photoshoot with Annie Leibovitz—one that racked up a lot of…