Новости за 21.07.2023

I was obviously already planning to see Barbie, if for no other reason than the fact that its marketing team has really outdone itself, ensuring that it will be the only film (besides Oppenheimer) that anyone can talk about for the rest of the summer. I thought maybe I’d wait for all the hullaballoo to die down and…

Vice President Kamala Harris took Florida’s state Board of Education to task on Thursday night at a convention for Delta Sigma Theta, a historically Black sorority. On Wednesday, the board approved a new set of curriculum that will teach middle schoolers that enslaved Black people “developed skills” from being…

The president of Texas A&M University said on Friday that she would resign, after efforts to recruit a Black journalism professor fell apart over conservative backlash to the professor’s diversity and inclusion work. It’s the second high-profile resignation this week: On Monday, the interim dean of the school’s…

YouTuber JiDion (née Jidon Adams) has reportedly been banned from “all NBA-related events” following a series of remarkably dull, sexist pranks he pulled while sitting courtside at WNBA games. Attending a Los Angeles Sparks game this week, Adams, dressed head-to-toe in pajamas, occupied several courtside seats and…

After nearly three years of protesting, testifying before Congress, and a whirlwind of allegations of financial impropriety and sexual harassment, the Dan Snyder Era of the Washington Commanders has finally come to a close.

We already knew Jack Schlossberg, former President John F. Kennedy’s only grandson, hates restaurants, thanks to a viral rant he posted earlier this month about the displeasures of eating dining out. And now, via a new Instagram rant filmed in the front seat of a car, our favorite unserious descendant of political…

“I took a trip to Spain /Just a notebook in my hand/ Then I went to see some friends of mine/ Down in Florence, Alabama.” sings Lana Del Rey on the song “Paris, Texas” from her latest album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. Well, looks like our girl stayed down in Florence, Alabama, because she’s…

The following is an excerpt from Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles, by Kate Flannery. Flannery was hired at the iconic clothing brand American Apparel in 2005, as its founder Dov Charney—who used his unorthodox ways to foster cult-like devotion—faced three sexual harassment lawsuits.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sunk to a new low at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, sharing stolen nude photos of Hunter Biden engaged in sexual acts to push a baseless conspiracy theory that he runs a sex trafficking ring. Despite likely violating revenge porn laws in doing so, the rightwing…

In 1989, Michael Jackson beckoned MTV viewers to watch him so that he could tell them to “Leave Me Alone.” In 2002, Whitney Houston asked, “Why you lookin’ at me?” in the hook of her single, “Whatchulookinat.” (Why do you think, Whitney?) And now, in 2023, Britney Spears has just released the most recent entry in the…

In February, Taylor Edwards and her husband went to the hospital to get an anatomy scan of her fetus during her 18th week of pregnancy. The couple had tried desperately to become pregnant and were eventually able to with the help of IVF. But that day in February, they learned their unborn daughter had a fatal…

If you can imagine, the ethically dubious (and that’s putting it kindly) world is filled with a hell of a lot more drama than just a poorly and stupidly executed influencer trip. The two worst girls you know, Shein and their new-to-the-scene nemesis, e-commerce retailer Temu, are in a legal battle and, unfortunately…