A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to ban gender-affirming care for transgender people under the age of 19. Trump’s order is now blocked nationwide. In his Thursday ruling, U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson — an appointee President Joe Biden — declared that Trump issued his ban without legal authority, making
In 2023, R. Kelly formally appealed his conviction on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. On Wednesday (February 12), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the conviction and its corresponding 30-year prison sentence. In a statement to The Associated Press, R. Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, called the ruling “unprecedented” and
Josh Ruben’s Heart Eyes is so 1990s. Maybe that doesn’t matter much to you, but it means more to me than I imagined it would. Heart Eyes, scripted by slasher perennials Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon, and Michael Kennedy (Time Cut, Freaky, It’s a Wonderful Knife), is ostensibly just another in their line of subversive, high-concept
Few figures in fashion history embody boldness, elegance, and cultural power like André Leon Talley. His towering presence, flowing capes, and deep knowledge of fashion made him a legend. More than just a style icon, he was a trailblazer and a champion for Black creatives in luxury spaces. Breaking Barriers in Fashion In 1988, Talley
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Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt No one else, no one else can speak the words on Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt’s lips about their journey, which began when they met at a club in 2006. “I pretty much told everyone I was going to marry him and that I loved him,” she recalled in a
The first time I listened to For Against, it was a track from their bracing sophomore album December (1988). My initial impression was that I was listening to something akin to the Chameleons, especially their earliest releases, but with Mark Burgess’ muscular vocals swapped out for something equally impassioned yet also brittle, like a deadly
Netflix has been quiet since the social media past of its Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón surfaced in late January, forcing changes to and awkward conversations for her castmates on the awards campaign trail for Jacques Audiard’s ambitious Spanish-language drug cartel musical. But on Thursday, Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria was asked what
Bachelor Grant Ellis appeared on a podcast this week where he opened up about all the rumors that he is not there for the right reasons. Just before his season premiere, Grant dropped a single called “Party Girls” and fans instantly started thinking his intention was not to find a wife but rather to start a
It’s easy to look at the myriad executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in the first few days of his second presidential term and feel like there’s nothing anyone can do. His first orders of business included rolling back 78 of outgoing President Joe Biden’s executive orders, cutting DEI programs, and attacking the trans
Last year, Sturgill Simpson released Passage du Desir, his first album as Johnny Blue Skies. He’s now announced the Who the F**k Is Johnny Blue Skies? Tour. The U.S. trek begins in April with a show in Durant, Oklahoma. Along the way, Simpson will perform at Stagecoach Festival, Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, and more. See
Family dinners can be a nightmare without any intrigue or murder involved. But add some blood to the mix and you have a recipe for disaster. Director Lana Read channels that chaos in her new film Death 4 Dinner, a new murder mystery about the death of a Senator, greedy siblings, and two cops searching
Few figures in fashion, music, and film command the presence of Grace Jones. Her bold aesthetics, androgynous beauty, and fearless persona redefined what it meant to be a cultural icon. More than just a model or singer, Jones was a disruptor, a trendsetter, and a symbol of unapologetic individuality. Breaking Boundaries in Fashion and Music
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“I am claustrophobic,” she recalled in the episode. “I’ve never felt this way before, where I feel like I can’t breathe.” Indeed, the ensemble even sparked some controversy due to how drastically it cinched her waist. And while the 44-year-old planned to “sneak out right before the dinner” to get out of the agonizing dress,
Within the international rockosphere, 2025 is shaping up to be the year of Oasis. Fifteen years after the Gallagher brothers acrimoniously went their separate ways, and 30 after their band stormed the mainstream barricades to become the biggest British band since the Beatles, a cryptic message appeared on the siblings’ social media sites on 27
EXCLUSIVE: Bankside Films has announced additional cast, pre-sales and new producers for & Sons, director Pablo Trapero’s adaptation of the novel by David Gilbert. Imelda Staunton (Downton Abbey), Johnny Flynn (Ripley), Dominic West (The Affair), Anna Geislerová (Anthropoid) and Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) are new additions to the project, for which current pre-sales include Airlines
Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been a ho-hum attempt at restarting a once-hot franchise. I will be honest: The series adaptation would have probably been far more enjoyable without the Lord of the Rings name. In many respects, it’s a run-of-the-mill fantasy drama. (Prime Video/Screenshot) Consequently, it isn’t
In another example of President Donald Trump’s weaponization of the Department of Education (DOE), the DOE’s Office of General Counsel is demanding that transgender high school and college athletes be retroactively stripped of their records, titles, and awards. The demand follows Trump’s executive order seeking to ban trans female athletes from all school sports. The
Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a defamation lawsuit NBCUniversal Media LLC, Peacock TV LLC, and Ample Entertainment over allegations aired in their recent Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy documentary. In court documents, viewed by Pitchfork, Diddy and his legal team accuse the companies of “shamelessly capitalizing on the public’s insatiable appetite for content
Mike Flanagan is an unabashed movie lover. He’s even active on Letterboxd, the social networking app for cinephiles. That makes him all the more accessible and gives his fans insight into the films that shaped and influenced him. The Hush director has used the platform to compile an exhaustive list of his all-time favorite horror
Jay-Z was all smiles with his daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi on the field at the Super Bowl LIX game in New Orleans on Sunday. The 55-year-old billionaire who’s been serving as the Live Music Entertainment Strategist for the NFL since 2019 was on daddy duties. He looked understated, rocking an all-black ensemble including a
The multi-award winning feminist author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale) has announced that she will be releasing her long-awaited memoir later this year. The 85-year-old Canadian writer’s ouvré includes everything from 17 novels to 19 poetry books and a few graphic novels, but this is her first memoir. Part of the reason she hadn’t written
Khloé Kardashian Tried “Countless” Times to Save Lamar Odom Amid Addiction Battle Khloe Kardashian is done keeping up with her ex-husband Lamar Odom‘s secrets. In fact, the reality star had no problem confronting him over his past substance abuse during the couple’s first face-to-face meeting in nine years, bluntly asking Los Angeles Lakers alum “why
The cover of Raw Muscular Power, the new album from Norwegian rockers Death by Unga Bunga, shows all five members as the snarling heads of an outrageous, underground comix-style hydra—a writhing mass of gnashing teeth, bulging eyes, and gyrating faces closing in on an unlucky warrior swinging a battle axe. That sets the right tone
One of the most anticipated crossover arthouse movies in the market, two time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund’s The Entertainment System Is Down, has scored strong pre-sales for Paris-based Coproduction Office, we can reveal. The starry feature, led by Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, and Keanu Reeves, has been pre-sold to UK (Lionsgate Films), Germany &
Bachelor Ben Higgins met his wife Jessica Clarke in 2018. They dated and he popped the question in 2020. The pair married in 2021 and finally announced her pregnancy in August 2024. Now, they are parents. Ben went to Instagram Stories on Tuesday morning to share that they were only a few hours from Jess becoming
On the wall in Lena Waithe’s Los Angeles office hangs an image of Lorraine Hansberry, the groundbreaking Black queer playwright whose work, “A Raisin In The Sun,” became the first play written and produced by a Black woman to debut on Broadway. Waithe bears the name of the play’s matriarch (Lena Younger) and, like Hansberry,
Fountains of Wayne have announced their first show following the death of Adam Schlesinger, their bassist and general pop culture songwriter extraordinaire, in April 2020. The power-pop band will perform at Milwaukee’s Summerfest, on the Fourth of July, alongside other acts such as Benson Boone, the Lumineers, Chicago, and Porter Robinson. Eve 6’s Max Collins
How could you possibly make mini-golf scary? Just ask director Caleb Harris and co-writers Dylan Eshbaugh and Ben Getz, because they’ve found a way with their new horror-comedy Gothic Slayers, coming this March from Cranked Up Films. In the film, “Two putt-putt employees and best friends must face off against a demonic cult that has
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