Donald Trump, an eggroll to which someone has wastefully glued a hairpiece, gave a speech on trade and economic policy today in front of trash. Just a backdrop of a big mountain of trash. What metaphor?

Maybe I’m just a bitter, close-minded crow who will eventually die slumped over a butter churn, but I really fucking hate it when food masquerades as other food. Ergo, I hate this alleged “sushi donut” trend. Hate it!

In advance of their sixth studio album, Strange Little Birds, Shirley Manson and her Garbage bandmates have released a video for its first single, “Empty.” From the video’s opening, with a pink-haired Manson spinning slowly as though suspended in time (which, I mean, look at her), it’s clear that this is the same…

One day after Kanye West’s SNL performance, rumors began circulating that he’d almost walked off the set without performing because of a backstage “meltdown.” Last week, Page Six obtained a recording of West having said “meltdown,” and its contents—out of context and possibly edited—are inconclusive; it’s unclear…

Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is $1.5 billion—a number so big I have a hard time comprehending what my life would be like if I were lucky enough to win it. Fortunately I’ve figured out a foolproof way of deciding one’s lucky numbers, and I’d like to share it with you below. So grab a sheet of paper and a pen, because…

It takes 56,000 People staffers just over 330 days to meet and interview all the men in the world, but by god, they do it every single year and always choose the most deserving one to grace their first December cover.

Happy Friday, everyone! Today we have an extra reason to love the best day of the week: it’s Angela Lansbury’s birthday! Yep, Queen Angela turns 90 years old today, and to celebrate, we’ve found 90 great photos of her.

Garbage’s self-titled debut came out 20 years ago—wanna feel old??—and, to celebrate, the band just reissued Garbage with a bunch of remixes and B-sides (“G-sides,” they’re saying), and in the upcoming month they’re going on a “20 Years Queer” tour, supported in North America by grunge mystic singer-songwriter…

Until the evening of June 23, California lawmakers were actually being asked to address something called the Sodomite Suppression Act, which advocated for the killing “by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method” of anyone who participated in any kind of gay sex. But, as we don’t live in an…

A series of truly terrible legislative efforts in Texas are targeting women, gay adults, and gay children. Like, even more than usual. Really, notably, unusually bad, even for a state that prides itself on extreme levels of this sort of badness.

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