Новости за 08.06.2021

Living in Los Angeles temporarily has its perks, such as the vegan grocery store in my neighborhood with tap kombucha and a thriving activist scene. If neither of those appeal, there’s also the local dealer who sells weed strains named after archaic legal frameworks like conservatorship. These days, I’m smoking…

Leigh Bardugo is one of the biggest names working in YA at the moment—a profile only elevated by the adaptation of her Grishaverse series into the popular Netflix show Shadow and Bone, which was just renewed for a second season. Set in a magical universe influenced by Tsarist Russia, the series follows a young woman…

Crocs aficionados know that the primary appeal of the rubber shoes preferred by children and sex pests alike is comfort. Armed with this knowledge and also with the understanding that Denma Gvasalia, the troll king that currently designs for Balenciaga, has done this before, I have some questions. Namely, who among…

Deadline reports that Chris Harrison will officially end his two-decade-long run as host on The Bachelor franchises. The news comes after a nasty spat Harrison instigated with former contestant and Bachelorette lead Rachel Lindsay, during which he said: “I am not the woke police,” among other nonsensical claims about…

On Monday, Boston’s acting Mayor Kim Janey fired the city’s police commissioner Dennis White, a move that came months after White was placed on administrative leave in February after the former cop’s history of alleged domestic violence became public.

It’s 1751, and Kit Webb is a retired highwayman—essentially a pirate who worked roadways rather than the high seas, with the same implication of both danger and dashingness—trying to run his London coffee house in peace, even though it’s making him bored out of his mind. Cat Sebastian’s latest historical romance, The…

Yesterday, Ellie Kemper apologized for her participation in the Veiled Prophet’s Ball—St. Louis’s racist debutante exercise of dressing up grown men in costumes and parading teen girls in front of them, all in the name of tradition. Her apology was good—great, even, for a celebrity apology. And now, her Unbreakable…

Whoever said less is more was really onto something, and perhaps that sage bit of wisdom should have been followed more closely by the producers of this season’s The Bachelorette. On Monday night Katie Thurston, one of the losers of Matt James’s season of The Bachelor, welcomed a group of incredibly average-looking…

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has announced that he is closing the state’s sole women’s prison, following years of sexual abuse and misconduct on the part of prison guards and staff.

“Do not come. Do not come.”

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It came as little surprise last year when it was reported that the Department of Justice was seeking to take over Trump’s defense in his legal battle with E. Jean Carroll, the former Elle columnist who is suing him for defamation—Trump was still president. At the time, the DOJ argued Trump was “within the scope” of…

After years of waiting, it seems new Lorde music is finally imminent.

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The Duggars: remember them? Here’s Jill, who keeps an understandable distance between herself and the family at large, feeding her dog years-old frozen breast milk.