A participant prepares for a Pride Run, an event of ShanghaiPRIDE. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty) The oldest and largest Pride festival in China, ShanghaiPRIDE, has announced that it is “taking a break from scheduling any future events”, in a huge blow to the country’s LGBT+ community. When ShanghaiPRIDE began in 2009 there were 3,000 people in attendance,
Play video content Exclusive TMZSports.com First Deion Sanders … then Charles Barkley? Maybe! Barstool Sports prez Dave Portnoy says Sir Chuck is the next big star he’s hoping to sign, after inking Prime Time earlier this week. “Charles Barely is like the best to ever do it,” Portnoy told us in NYC … “He’s a
EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway production company behind the upcoming Michael Jackson musical MJ and the stage adaptation of the hit 2000 film Almost Famous has hired The Old Globe Theater’s Travis LeMont Ballenger as producer to help oversee both high-profile projects. Ballenger, most recently the Associate Artistic Director at the Globe in San Diego, also will
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one proud dad. The 39-year-old actor gave fans a rare glimpse into his life as a father of two during the Aug. 12 episode of The Tonight Show. The topic came up after Jimmy Fallon asked the 500 Days of Summer star about his break from acting a few years ago. “I
Breaking News This could be a bad look for R. Kelly — 3 of his alleged acquaintances have been charged with harassing witnesses in his criminal case … but the singer claims he had no involvement. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday Richard Arline, Donnell Russell and Michael Williams were arrested and charged for
Linkin Park have announced a new reissue of their debut Hybrid Theory to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The reissues arrive October 9 via Warner Records in multiple formats: the 5xCD set, which includes the 2002 remix album Reanimation as well as rarities, a 3xLP vinyl box set, and a super deluxe box set with DVDs
Courtesy of USPS, Parks Project, and @ClaraBelleUK Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Merch, like so many things, comes in waves. While the right band T-shirt has always been reliably cool, music merch’s fashion cred arguably crested with Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s T-shirts for Kanye West’s The
Then you shift to the sequel, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and you realize that this was an explanation that this story would send Peter on a European journey with his class. There, he’d encounter Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a slew of B-level baddies, but again, the subtitle didn’t directly tie into the villains used in
In honor of the company’s 100-year anniversary, AMC Theatres will sell movie tickets for 15 cents apiece on its big reopening day—the same price the theater charged when it first opened in 1920. AMC, which closed its doors in March due to the pandemic, finally plans to reopen more than 100 theaters on August 20,
The Christian employee used pornography as a coping mechanism for work stress (Stock photo: Envato Elements) A worker at an anti-gay Christian group has been awarded compensation after stressful working conditions drove him to watch pornography and suffer a stroke. Michael Bowker, 47, was the office national officer for Family Voice Australia, a Christian lobbying
Donald Trump was not happy with Bill Maher‘s show last Friday night, and we’re guessing it’s because Maher delivered a blistering fake eulogy of 45. Trump tweeted, “Watched @billmaher last week for the first time in a long time. He’s totally SHOT, looks terrible, exhausted, gaunt and weak. If there was ever a good reason
We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not E!. Don’t you just love the summer holidays? We mean, the shopping holidays, of course. The Fourth of July brought us
The UK’s first major outdoor concert is offering a glimpse of what’s likely to become the norm — venues sectioned off into small groups, enabling fans to rock without rolling the COVID-19 dice. Sam Fender performed for 2,500 people at the Virgin Money Unity Arena in Newcastle Tuesday night … marking what’s believed to be
Jill Scott will play gospel icon Mahalia Jackson in a forthcoming biopic, according to Deadline. Based on the biography Mahalia Jackson by Darlene Donloe, Mahalia! will be produced by Queen Latifah, Jamie Foxx, Shakim Compere, and Holly Carter. Producers have secured the rights to Jackson’s entire musical catalog for the film, which will document her
After seven glorious years, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has finally come to a close, and the series finale was everything we ever hoped it would be. In addition to resolving multiple storylines (and answering so many timeline questions we almost lost track of them all), the final episode had some great twists and more than one happy
Exhibition will slowly come back to life this Friday at the box office after largely being shutdown for 21 weeks due to the pandemic. However, the first notable ticket sales will be coming out of the Great White North. Paramount is giving a big screen release to The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run in Canada
Kylie Jenner showed off her ‘most perfect’ birthday dress, from the creative director of Balmain himself! She appeared to wear the dress in one of her favorite getaway destinations. Blink 182 said “Nobody likes you when you’re 23,” but that obviously doesn’t apply to Kylie Jenner! The makeup mogul received a gorgeous piece from the
These are practical effects at their finest. For this list, we’re looking at the traps that were the most intricate and ingenious to create, from designing them to filming them. Our countdown includes The Steam Room, The Cube Trap, The Venus Fly Trap, and more! Did YOUR favorite “Saw” trap make the list? Let us
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures will be hosting a high-end dual big screen drive-in experience on the Culver City, CA lot starting this Friday, Aug. 14. They are the first major studio ever to turn their lot into a drive-in. The drive-in will be located in the studio’s Thalberg parking lot and showcase several Sony classic catalog
The Crown has found its final Prince Philip. Jonathan Pryce has been cast as Queen Elizabeth‘s husband in the last two seasons of the Netflix drama, following in the footsteps of Matt Smith and Tobias Menzies. He’ll star alongside Imelda Staunton as Elizabeth and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret. No other casting has been announced so
The Weeknd‘s philanthropy isn’t confined to North America … he’s opening his wallet to help people who were injured, people whose loved ones died, and people who were left homeless by the tragic explosion that rocked Beirut. The singer’s manager, Wassim “Sal” Slaiby, and his wife, Rima Fakih, have been leading the charge to get
The 1975’s Matty Healy and George Daniel were the latest guests on the Song Exploder podcast, where they talked about their Notes on a Conditional Form track “The Birthday Party.” Matty Healy discussed the origins of the song, which he started writing following a relapse and as a relationship was coming to an end. “I
CBS TV Studios has struck an exclusive agreement with 21CP Solutions, the country’s preeminent law enforcement and public safety advisory group, to consult with the writing teams on their police, crime and legal drama series. The group of advisers includes former senior law enforcement officials, civil rights scholars, lawyers, academics, and community thought leaders in police
The world’s last remaining Blockbuster store is getting an extreme makeover … it’s converting into a rental property for an epic end-of-summer sleepover!!! Here’s the deal … Sandi Harding, the manager of the only surviving Blockbuster in Bend, OR, is converting the store into an Airbnb for 3 nights only … and the once-in-a-lifetime experience
Calling Ryan Reynolds and Seth Rogen: B.C. Premier John Horgan wants you. At a Wednesday press conference announcing the hiring of 500 new contact tracers in the province, Horgan also called on some of B.C.’s best-known celebrities to use their influence to help get younger people on board with coronavirus precautions. “This is a callout
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The UK’s notoriously anti-LGBT home secretary Priti Patel is planning to fully decriminalise the sale of poppers. Not usually known for liberal stances on anything, Patel confirmed on Wednesday that she is “minded” to explicitly exempt poppers from laws banning former ‘legal highs’. Alkyl nitrites, popularly known as poppers, are sold in the UK as
Pose star Dominique Jackson and transgender model and activist Munroe Bergdorf head up the line-up for the digital UK Black Pride festival. Like many Pride events, the physical UK Black Pride gathering was cancelled in 2020 due to coronavirus, but organisers have put their all into creating a day-long celebration of Black queer experiences. The
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Exclusive The case of Carole Baskin‘s disappeared husband, Don Lewis, is going the route of ‘Don’t F**k with Cats’ — with an online group claiming it’s dug up a massive, and crappy, clue about where his body might be. Jack Smith — the spokesman now repping Don’s family — tells us he and a group