Новости за 28.04.2023

You know that scene from the first season of The White Lotus in which Jennifer Coolidge rants, raves, then repeatedly releases plaintive wails—and some of her mother’s ashes—across the Pacific Ocean? Well, that’s what Kesha’s new music feels like: a sonic summation of grief, angst, and all-out fury, and how it feels…

Greetings after another week of terrible news, wherein Republicans behave like evil cartoon villains and some Democrats can only muster flaccid statements noting their concern in response. It’s frankly difficult to remember every cursed thing that happens in a week of political news, so I’ve compiled the biggies for…

Diana Ross would (probably) very much like to be excluded from this narrative.

Keri Russell is back! So is Martin Scorsese! Parker Posey and Kesha, too! And they’ve given us much to watch and listen to, as we ease ourselves from a long week during which much of the Jez staff was under the weather (this spring has been brutal in New York), into a weekend during which much of the Jez staff will be…

Currently, there seems to be a voracious appetite for an erotic thriller revival. This month, Criterion presented a series of 16 examples of the noirish subgenre that exposed (among things) the dangers of sex and monogamy-deviation, and which, not coincidentally, spanned the “plague years” of the AIDS epidemic. Last…

In a new lawsuit, a former cheerleader at Navarro College—which was made famous by Netflix’s acclaimed docuseries, Cheer—has accused her former coach, Monica Aldama, of attempting to suppress her alleged sexual assault with bribery, the Dallas Morning News first reported.

Most abortion news is bad news so here we are with some good news, albeit qualified: Abortion bans failed this week in the Republican-controlled states of South Carolina and Nebraska. Abortion remains legal in both states until 22 weeks of pregnancy for now, though South Carolina’s clinics only offer care up to 14…

There are a lot of things about Post Malone that have got ‘em sayin’ “wow”— like the fact that Bad Bunny brought Posty out for a surprise acoustic performance during his Weekend One Coachella set. Or that the rapper thinks his almost 1-year-old baby daughter is “so swaggy.” But to me, nothing is more “wow” than Post…

Earlier this week, far-right podcaster Steven Crowder announced on his show that he’d been in the midst of “what has increasingly been a horrendous divorce” since 2021, claimed his ex-wife Hilary is the one who left him, and implied that he opposes the no-fault divorce laws that allowed her to do so. And now, new…

Dwyane Wade—member of the iconic Miami Heat championship teams who is set to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame this year—no longer lives in Florida because the state is targeting trans people, among others.

One month after Jonathan Majors was arrested for domestic assault after allegedly attacking a woman whom police identified as his girlfriend, the woman was granted a temporary restraining order against Majors on Thursday. Per the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, the order of protection was granted with the…

Love is patient, love is kind, and now love is…sort of avoidant?

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Met Gala Monday is upon us—and while we wait for a new dump of photos of rich celebrities wearing giant expensive gowns to raise money for a fancy museum, we must settle for reminiscing on old photos of rich celebrities wearing giant expensive gowns.

Texas’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would allow locally-elected prosecutors to be removed from office if they refuse to enforce anti-abortion laws. The Texas Tribune reports that House Bill 17 “is a response to elected district and county attorneys in Texas’ large,…

Ahead of a Thursday vote on a bill to ban abortion at roughly six weeks, which ultimately failed, Nebraska State Sen. Steve Halloran (R) mused aloud, “We’ve been in a state in our country where, for 50 years, abortion has become normal, and phrases such as ‘forcing women to be pregnant’ are used.”

I’m not a great sleeper. I have annoying, vivid dreams every night and toss and turn so much that I typically wake up to find that I’ve kicked off my covers into the other room. But lately, lately, I’ve been haunted by a very specific nightmare that starts with a text: “Hey girl! Making dinner tonight, come over?”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been away from the Senate for weeks because she’s still recovering from being hospitalized with shingles. The 89-year-old lawmaker has given no return date, and her absence is holding up crucial votes on federal judges and is now letting Republican-led bills pass the supposedly…