Новости за 11.12.2018

Pentatonix is a collection of fresh-faced, earnest, and extremely bland a cappella singers who have somehow made an indelible impression on American middlebrow culture. They are now on Thanksgiving floats. They have albums and tours that sell out. They take songs previously enjoyed by the general public and make them…

As far as I’m concerned, one of the last remaining reliable sources of joy on this planet is The Daily Mail’s continued practice of selective capitalization in its headlines. You’ll be reading and all of a sudden, the Mail is shrieking “PENIS” in your eyes, as if your eyes wouldn’t have been drawn to the genitals if…

In a new interview with The New Yorker, psychotherapist and podcaster Esther Perel shared the secrets to a functioning marriage, what kinds of problems couples bring to her office, and how our expectations for marriage far exceed the institution’s original, intended purpose.

Spoilers ahead.

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Republican women in Congress are getting fed up, okay? In the wake of their Party’s losses in the midterm elections, in which the numbers of Republican women in the House dropped from 23 to 13, some are calling for some the party to do some soul searching. “It’s so disappointing I could just scream,” retiring…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s character on Seinfeld is an eternal balm; even 20 years later, Elaine remains a consistently funny, relatable loudmouth who proved women can be just as unhinged as men and look better in blazers. One of her most charming habits was shouting “Shut UP” incredulously at the men in her life and then…

Kellyanne Conway (bad, fascist) has decided to go after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (cool, wants you to have healthcare). On Tuesday on Fox News, Conway, unprompted, called Ocasio-Cortez “really embarrassing” and a “29-year-old congresswoman who doesn’t seem to know much about anything.” To which I say: You really wanna…

Theresa May isn’t having a great week. For instance, it’s only Tuesday, and she’s already spent several interminable, highly public seconds locked in her car while Angela Merkel waited patiently to welcome her.

Kathie Lee Gifford announced that she’s saying goodbye to the Today Show. Bring out your shittiest white wine, here come the fucking tears!

Martha Stewart told a super chill story on The Wendy Williams Show today about dabbling with edible marijuana. After describing a recent trip to her Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party cohost Snoop Dogg’s Los Angeles compound, Williams asked Stewart if she puffs or passes. “I pass,” said Stewart. “I just try to…

Before Barbie, who could become anything from a dedicated nurse to a Malibu socialite with the change of an outfit and a thousand accessories, there were the elegant and fragile “fashion dolls” bestowed upon wealthy little girls in the 1860s and 1870s.

On Monday, Gabrielle Union shared an emotional video on IGTV detailing her long, painful fertility journey. The eight-minute clip covers her “eight or nine” miscarriages, a diagnosis of adenomyosis (a condition in which the inner lining of the uterus breaks through the muscle wall) and eventual pregnancy-via-surrogacy…

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, ThinkProgress reported that guidance protecting transgender people in the federal workforce were quietly removed from the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) website. As ThinkProgress noted, the guidelines offered definitional and practical information on how to better ensure that…

Jennifer Aniston once had paranormal roommate drama! On Monday night’s Late Late Show with James Corden, she recalled that when she first moved to California, she lived in a home haunted by a ghost, and was plagued by a variety of ghostly happenings—dishes would break, things would go bump in the night. A medium…

Hosting the Oscars is a hard job. You need a) squeaky clean tweets, b) a boring, PG-13 sense of humor that won’t offend any advertisers, nominees, guests, etc. and c) skin as thick as rubber, considering almost everyone will think you’re doing an awful job. At least you get paid a lot of money, right? Wrong! Jimmy…

Janelle Monáe has signed on to Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem biopic as Dorothy Pitman Hughes, the activist who co-founded Ms. magazine with Steinem in 1972.

Crazy Rich Asians star Constance Wu is in talks for a new rom-com about “a charmingly chaotic woman who has to get her life together when she becomes pregnant with two babies from two different men,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

A Star Is Born has been celebrated (or at least discussed) across the universe (or at least the internet), but what if instead of Bradley Cooper wanting to take another look at Lady Gaga, it had been Will Smith wanting to take another look at Jennifer Lopez? Would that have even made sense? It could have happened.

How long has it been since you’ve wondered about the welfare of Julia Roberts’ holes? Was it eight years ago, when she—they—starred in Eat Pray Love? Or was it more recently? Maybe you’d forgotten all about America’s sweethole until just now. Luckily, an upstate New York newspaper has an update:

It seems like it was forever ago when Netflix swooped in out of nowhere and dropped a piece of mysterious teaser art announcing its upcoming Carmen Sandiego reboot. Since then, there hasn’t been all that much revealed about the new series, but today, the studio announced a new release date and dropped a handful of…

Thank you for a fresh Monday migraine, Time Magazine:

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It’s the holidays, which means news outlets are Debbie Downer-ing us with annoyingly true alerts that ultimately serve to piss on our seasonal cheer. The latest offender is PEOPLE, which reminds us that “CDC Warns People to ‘Say No’ to Raw Cookie Dough While Baking for the Holidays.” Insert sad trombone sound with a…

On Monday afternoon, we learned that there might be a hidden clue embedded in the song “Pete Davidson,” Ariana Grande’s song about her ex-fiancé, Pete Davidson.

Netflix released a teaser trailer for Season 3 of Stranger Things on Sunday, The Los Angeles Times reports, revealing the names of the episodes but like, not much else.

The Washington Post’s fact-checker column, ranks statements by politicians on a scale of one to four “Pinocchios” and then those politicians keep lying about the same stuff.