Reading The Bluest Eye last year, for the third or fourth time, I saw the world through Pecola and her family again. And I felt their ugliness. I stopped on a passage and it froze me like it always does: “It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had…
If you planned on seeing fashion designer and occasional social media user Rachel Roy during Monday night’s “Mastering Your Métier” seminar, I have the unfortunate task of relaying some bad news: something suddenly came up, so she canceled.
After the release of Beyoncé’s sixth studio album Lemonade, we can say we have all now learned this: hell hath no fury like Beyoncé, but hell also hath no fury like Becky with the good hair—especially if you’re fashion designer Rachel Roy, and especially if you made a quasi-confession on social media about once having…
Hello, perhaps you have noticed that Beyoncé is debuting a... something on HBO this evening. Is it an album? Is it a documentary? Is it a narrative film, or all three? We know as much as you do; here’s your spot to follow along, comment, and behave totally rationally and in a very calm, adult fashion as this happening…
The Beyoncé extravaganza on Saturday—whatever it is!—will be free for all. No need to perform an extremely shameful favor for some free HBO or mooch off a friend’s subscription.
Beyoncé has posted to Twitter and Instagram and beyonce.com with a message about an upcoming event. Something is happening, and it’s happening soon.
Mikaila Ulmer, a 10-year-old girl from Texas, is the face of a thriving lemonade business. No, it's not just a well-trafficked stand in her parents front yard, but a full-fledged company—BeeSweet Lemonade—that just got a $60K investment on Shark Tank.
The congressional race in Florida's 9th District took a turn for the macabre recently when Mark Oxner, one of four Repooblicans hoping to serve the public good, released a campaign ad that envisioned a dystopian future in which Democratic rival Alan Grayson "and his progressive cronies," eradicate all of America's…
In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, a queef joke squeaks out on live TV, Bill Cosby claims he isn't dead, and Teresa Giudice gets grilled about her money problems on The View.
Seven-year-old Julie Murphy was just trying her hand at the old summer past-time of running a lemonade stand—until she got served with papers from the Portland health department shutting her down because she didn't have a $120 food safety permit.
[Reading, Pennsylvania; August 24. Image via INF]
