Новости за 17.08.2018

By many accounts, the New York University professor Avital Ronell—a German and comparative literature scholar and a superstar in her corner of academia— is a brilliant woman and a sought-after advisor. Former students who have taken her classes describe her as “original” and “inspiring.” Ronell, who is in her 60s and…

Y/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our highly scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system.

Experts say these white lion cubs are quickly and healthily gaining weight. Far be it for Jezebel—a blog staffed entirely by clowns—to question the experts! However, we say that these cuties could perhaps be just the slightest bit more roly-poly.

A few months ago, I started noticing that whenever I washed or combed my hair, huge clumps of it would fall out. I ignored it—I have (had?) a lot of hair, and I figured I was maybe just going through a stressful time in my life, or that my body was getting used to a new medication I’d started taking.

Melania Trump seems to be very much alone in her position. 

Read more...

Everything is stupid, and so are we. Welcome to Jezebel’s Stupidest Summer Ever, a season-long celebration of our worst, most idiotic thoughts and opinions.

As is usually the case with television shows I love, the gospel of Floribama Shore was preached to me long before I ever considered actually watching it. For nearly a year, friends like Jezebel’s Clover Hope and Megan Reynolds tried to convince me that MTV’s reality series about early twenty-something Southerners who…

A recent cookbook from an Instagram-famous mushroom forager and cook was pulled from its publisher for being potentially dangerous.

The theater on opening night for Crazy Rich Asians—John Chu’s glittering, tacky, and ultimately satisfying homage to romantic love and money—was full of Asian people, all of whom cheered, whooped, hollered, and audibly awwww-ed for the entire two hours. It was an experience that felt interactive—the first romcom that…

You have to wonder whether Dr. Pimple Popper (née Dr. Sandra Lee) is a sadist. Yes, she has devoted her career to helping the lump-afflicted. Yes, she wields a local anesthetic to numb wherever on the body she goes in to dig. But not only is she unsparing in the gory details of her work, which routinely finds pus…

Update: Now up to 50% off sale styles.

Read more...

L.A. Reid has signed Dinah Jane from the currently disbanded Fifth Harmony (R.I.P.) to Hitco Records, the label he founded after leaving Sony last year.

Lin Keitch tells BBC that her husband found her long-lost gold ring, nestled on a carrot, while digging up veggies from their garden. She says that their daughter lost the ring, which was her 40th birthday present, 12 years ago and she’s glad to have it back now. News flash: That ring ain’t hers; it’s that dang…

Michael Arceneaux, a longtime writer and author of I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé, describes his first book as his B’Day or Janet album. Released in July, the book is a series of charmingly cynical, reflective essays about his Houston upbringing, finding his…

Just kidding, I’ve never had ANY tears to cry for Elon Musk.

Read more...

Extra discounts from Backcountry, Sephora’s Weekly Wow deals, Mynt massagers on Amazon, and more lead Friday’s best lifestyle deals.

A third of the way into Be the Cowboy, over the upbeat strum of an acoustic guitar, Mitski relays a sober realization to a lover. “Nobody butters me up like you,” she sings. “And nobody fucks me like... me.”

A nursing mother who fled death threats from her brother-in-law in El Salvador is suing the Trump administration to reunite her with her 11-month old daughter, who was still being breastfed when they were forcibly separated.

*Elio in Call Me By Your Name voice* Chipotle, chipotle, chipotle. What do I do with you?

Why just feel like you’re living under the hellish whims of Donald Trump when you can literally live under him?

Imagine that Donald Trump Jr., forsaken son, has sent you a racy text message. What does your mind conjure? Does your mind refuse to entertain such a thought as a means of self-protection? I understand.

Upon hearing that Liam Neeson’s next role would be that of a snowplow driver, you might assume that he was going indie to revamp his career once again, after a decade of playing ACTION DADS. You would be wrong! Because this snowplow driver is going after a drug lord—of course.

Last night on Bleep Bloop Bleep Let’s Laugh With Celebrities With Mr. Good Time Smiley Pants, Ariana Grande promoted her new album sweetener with a very sweet (or saccharine?) story about the moment she fell in love with her now-fiancé, SNL star Pete Davidson.

Not five seconds into their collaborative single, Daddy Yankee kicks off “Made For Now” by giving Janet Jackson’s name the Daddy Yankee treatment. “Janet Jackson!” He yells out. “ICONIC!” If you’re at all familiar with his catalog (it’s great), it sounds similar to the way he calls out his own name, which is by…

Sign of the impending apocalypse #62339583: This thing.

Read more...