Mika Abdalla is skating into a new chapter. The Off Campus star and Jake Short—to whom she became engaged in 2025—have broken up, her rep confirmed. “Due to recent interest in Mika’s personal life,” Abdalla’s rep told Us Weekly, “it would feel remiss to not address that her and Jake are no longer together.” The statement
Month: June 2026
Richard Linklater’s 2025 movie Blue Moon broadened interest in the composer Richard Rodgers (played by Andrew Scott) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke, who was nominated for an Oscar). With a title taken from one of the songwriting duo’s most famous compositions, Blue Moon depicts the pair in 1943, shortly before the end
EXCLUSIVE: The British Film Institute lobbied ministers to request that the UK’s film and TV business not be included in any trade deal signed with U.S. President Donald Trump. The BFI sent the British Foreign Office a policy document in May 2025 outlining why including the screen industries in any trade agreement would cause “fundamental
All season long, there have been questions about whether Euphoria Season 3 would conclude the HBO hit. Truthfully, I figured the show would remain alive for another season with a new generation of characters, allowing it to return to high school. But now that I’ve watched Euphoria Season 3 Episode 8 and had some time
Tierra Whack has too many ideas to sit still, and that includes both writing new music and coming up with great puns. Hence why she’s just announced her new record (Whack’s Museum) that’s slated for release on June 19. The self-described “rap mixtape” follows her 2024 studio album World Wide Whack. When sharing the news
FAN EXPO Philadelphia 2026 took over the Pennsylvania Convention Center from May 29–31, 2026, bringing an absolute goldmine of nostalgia for fans of cult classics, sci-fi giants, and 1980s pop culture. While the massive convention drew thousands of attendees for its comic creators and cosplay red carpets, the absolute highlights of the weekend centered around
Two icons, one stage. Monica and Brandy linked up backstage at the Roots Picnic, and the fashion was just as iconic as the moment itself. Monica arrived in a custom MCM monogram leather baseball jersey and matching trousers, paired with tan boots — a look that was equal parts streetwear and luxury. The cognac-toned ensemble
The year always presents more anticipated books than most people can get through in 365 days, but that doesn’t stop us from building our towering stacks. I have so many 2026 BIPOC books to look forward to picking up during the second half of the year. A couple of BIPOC books I’ve already enjoyed and
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the city of Denton for hosting the “Big Gay Swim Day,” a private Pride month pool event scheduled for June 7 at the city’s Civic Center. Paxton alleged that the event’s changing rooms will violate the Texas Women’s Privacy Act. The state law requires publicly-funded sex-segregated spaces — like
New information has emerged regarding the death of Kelly Lee Curtis. Two days after Jamie Lee Curtis announced that her sister Kelly had died at the age of 69, the Blaine County coroner’s office of Idaho confirmed to Us Weekly that she died of natural causes. Officials also shared details about her final days, saying
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette is the television series that, in nine episodes, dramatizes the story of this couple’s heady courtship and fraught marriage. For a while in early 2026, it seemed that almost every entertainment-focused publication had a review or a media item of the FX-Hulu series. Based on the
Several must-watch entries in the film noir genre have joined HBO Max’s movie lineup. Film noir is a term that can be used rather loosely, but it generally describes a period of years during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Released between the early 1940s and late 1950s, these films – typically made in black and
Wheel of Fortune is going to be taken off the air, and fans are going to lose the show for several weeks. This is not something anyone expected, and a lot of people are upset about it. However, there is not much they can do about the situation. It seems like a lot of people
The London and Paris editions of Pitchfork Music Festival have announced their return. The 2026 events will take place in venues across the two cities from November 2 to 8. Pitchfork Paris has also unveiled its first wave of artists, including headline shows on the Monday to Wednesday dates from Iceage, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis
The cinematic landscape is experiencing a seismic shift as independent horror completely upends the traditional summer blockbuster season. In a historic box office turn, lean indie horror productions are actively outperforming legacy Hollywood franchises on the scale of Star Wars. Driven by Gen Z creators who graduated from YouTube to theatrical screens, this disruption marks
Fashion Bomb Daily was on the scene as Crowned Skin founder Darrell Spencer marked another trip around the sun in signature style, transforming Carbon Steakhouse at 1204 W Lake Street in Chicago into an Ibiza-inspired evening for the ages. The Midnight in Ibiza birthday celebration drew a curated crowd of celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes, and tastemakers,
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The New York Times’ Best Books of June Last week, we took a look at the books The New York Times highlighted as the best of the summer. Now, with the start of the month,
Chicago, Illinois. Oct. 3, 2025. Gregory Bovino visits with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at the ICE facility in Chicago to observe enforcement operations | Shutterstock Gregory Bovino — the now-former tactical commander-at-large for U.S. Border Patrol official who oversaw the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaigns in U.S. cities before Trump removed him last
When Marilyn Monroe died on Aug. 4, 1962, countless conspiracy theories were born. The Los Angeles County Coroner determined that the 36-year-old—who was born Norma Jeane Baker on June 1, 1926—died of acute barbiturate poisoning and ruled her overdose a probable suicide. But that verdict has simply never sat well with people who suspected she
In 2020, Nolan Nunes, live bassist for Ghostmane, formed If I Die First alongside emo rappers and post-hardcore royalty. Their mission was simple: reignite the pop screamo flame. The genre’s convergence of nasally emo-pop-punk vocals and melodies; screamo screams and dissonance; and metalcore breakdowns totally defined post-hardcore in the early 2000s. The foundational works of
Downton Abbey and Paddington star Hugh Bonneville shot down rumors that he is in the frame to appear in The Celebrity Traitors as he opened SXSW London with an onstage conversation on Monday. “I keep being told I’m on Traitors, but no. I know Richard E. Grant is, because I tried to call him the
Critic’s Rating: 4.2 / 5.0 4.2 As we enter the second half of FROM Season 4, you can start to see where it’s headed. It’s been slow-moving at times, as the show has been over the years, with the scares slowing down and giving way to more character-heavy hours focused on people’s emotions while dropping
Two days ago, Boards of Canada released Inferno, their long-awaited LP and first album in 13 years. While most everybody had to wait until Friday to listen, horror movie fans got to hear one of its unreleased songs a little early: “The World Becomes Flesh” plays in Backrooms, the new A24 film directed by Kane
SYNOPSIS:The Yellow Balloon (2026) is a horror-comedy where a group of friends, seeking to help their friend Mia recover from a breakup at a remote cabin, are terrorized by a demonic, occult ringmaster named Vincent Vile, who uses cursed VHS tapes and violent, haunted yellow balloons to turn them against one another. REVIEW:The Yellow Balloon
As the new month starts, we’re sitting back and taking stock of the latest goings-on in the world of BIPOC lit. While we’re getting the temporary shutdown of a fire literary magazine, we’re also getting a star’s reading list and what sounds like a delicious New Orleans-set romantasy. Let’s get into it. HEATED RIVALRY Star
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) of California, a gay and Jewish candidate for Congress from San Francisco, is speaking out over a decision by organizers of Rome Pride to bar a major Jewish LGBTQ+ organization from the event because it “failed to distance itself from the ongoing genocide in Gaza.” “This is straight up antisemitic
“I always say if she [were] me and she played basketball, she’d be one of the greatest athletes ever,” Dwyane explained, “because she has that mentality and that understanding of what you need to do.” And the dad of five stressed that he’ll always be Zaya’s number one cheerleader, saying, “I’m a fan of my
The fourth album by singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, Maitreya Corso, includes a track called “Slacker in the Rye”, a title that parodies Hawke‘s self-professed fear: that she would become a modern-day Holden Caulfield, needlessly cynical about her privileged circumstances. As a whole, the record describes the perils of ambition and the difficulty of maintaining relationships in
The 1968 horror movie Night of the Living Dead is widely credited as beginning the on-screen fascination with zombie apocalypses. Since then, stories of flesh-eating corpses raised from the dead have come to dominate movies and television. Franchises like 28 Days Later have generated a 24-year lifespan and counting, while others, like Zombieland, have attracted