The Manhattan District Attorney has finally announced charges against Amy Cooper, the white woman who went viral in late May (also known as a lifetime ago) when she was filmed falsely accusing a Black man of threatening her life in Central Park.

In the lead-up to Quibi’s launch, it seemed as if every other day a new show starring a new celebrity was announced for its roster. Quibi, a streaming service that specializes in shows with 10-minute episodes, was meant to capitalize on the allegedly short attention spans of millennials and Gen Zers by featuring quick…

Prince Andrew has canceled his annual golfing trip in Spain—of course he routinely goes golfing in Spain, why would you even ask?—because Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest has reportedly severely rattled his cage, and most likely, he won’t be going anywhere for a while for fear of somehow being snapped up by US authorities.

There’s a story some people tell at Ubisoft Toronto, the studio currently finishing one of this fall’s bigger planned releases, Watch Dogs: Legion. It goes something like this: Maxime Béland, one of its co-founders and, until last week, a 20-year veteran of Ubisoft, allegedly choked a female employee at a work party.…

YouTube is an infernal cesspit that imbues those who use its platform to further their own nascent celebrity with an undue sense of power and overlooked responsibility. It is no surprise, then, that the drama that unfolds between its stars, is petty, unnecessary, and extraordinarily complicated.

I have long been of the opinion that all statues of humans (with only two possible exceptions) are bad—either they’re a hagiographic paean to extremely bad men (or more rarely, bad women!) or hideous, or often both. A majority of Americans now believe it’s time to take down Confederate statues, a shift that is due…

In a stunning win for the environmental justice movement, a court just ordered that the Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down.

More than a year after a New York Times report described Ryan Adams’s treatment of Mandy Moore as “psychologically abusive,” alongside allegations of “manipulative behavior” and “emotional and verbal abuse” towards women and an underage girl, Adams has “apologized.” In a letter shared by the Daily Mail, he claims that…

Donald Trump Jr. is playing nurse now that his girlfriend and fellow Trump re-election campaign goon, Kimberly Guilfoyle, has contracted covid-19.

An essential element of Leonardo DiCaprio’s teenybopper stardom was the hair: side-parted and rising in a wave that fell at his brow. Back in the ’90s, whether gazing through a fish tank in Romeo + Juliet or freezing to death upon a wooden door in Titanic, there were those blonde locks delicately draped over one eye,…

Dane Hicks, the owner of Kansas newspaper The Anderson County Review, is apologizing after publishing a cartoon equating a push to wear masks to prevent the spread of covid-19 with, um....genocide.  The cartoon depicted Kansas governor Laura Kelly wearing a face mask with the star of David; behind her a group of…

Covid-19 has caused yet another fashion house to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy: Lucky Brand Dungarees, LLC, currently owned by Leonard Green & Partners LP and best known as Lucky Brand Jeans, Business Insider reports. The retailer is hoping to sell to SPARC Group LLC, parent company of Aéropostale and Nautica, for…

Alleged Jeffrey Epstein co-abuser Ghislaine Maxwell might be in court as soon as Friday, since prosecutors presumably angling to get this thing going as quickly as possible.

Nick Cordero, a Broadway actor who starred in hits like Rock of Ages and Waitress, died on Sunday of complications from covid-19. The 41-year-old had been battling the virus since March.