The concept of celebrity romance as publicity tactic has existed since at least the dawn of the entertainment business. A natural extension of the well-oiled Hollywood machine, placing two up-and-coming talents together and suggesting they smooch, as if they were real-life Barbie and Ken dolls handled by a child, not…

Donald Trump Jr. has spent the last few years successfully pivoting from Large Adult Business Son and Apprentice judge to right wing tryhard who tweets shit like “liberalism is a disease.” But while his Twitter account often provides a one-dimensional view of Trump, his Instagram account paints a broader portrait.

I no longer have a Christmas stocking because my mother and I respect each other too much, but I did have one for many years. The very best presents I ever received in that stocking were warm socks and clementines.

As I write this, I do not know what Fortnite is, really, at all. I think that it is a video game? An app, maybe? Kind of like Candy Crush, only for bigger nerds? Well, this morning, when I grudgingly reviewed the end-of-year stats published by Pornhub, heretofore referred to as The Media-Savvy Tube Site Behemoth That…

Hey, your husbands went to Iceland!

On Tuesday afternoon, elected officials in New York City gathered in front of City Hall to denounce the violent arrest of 23-year-old Jazmine Headley, which had happened the previous Friday while she and her 1-year-old son were waiting at one of the city’s public assistance offices. Headley’s arrest was captured in a…

In 100 million years, human civilization will have bit the dust. Perhaps a nuclear war scorched the planet, or a last-ditch bid to solve climate change backfired horribly. Or, more optimistically, we overcame the myriad challenges of the 21st century, took to the stars and evolved into new species on alien worlds.…

Former Trump campaign lawyer Michael Cohen, who once vowed to “take a bullet” for his old boss but abruptly changed his tune when the feds started chasing him, has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for financial crimes and another two months for lying to Congress. Calling the crimes “a veritable smorgasbord of…

Holly jolly season is upon us or, as my colleague, Megan Reynolds so aptly puts it, “Ding, dong. Bing, bong.” You know what that sound means! That’s right, that’s the sweet sound of celebrities getting into the holiday spirit (and the spirit of one-upping their peers) by uploading pictures of their enormous Christmas…

CBS has settled their portion of a lawsuit filed in New York State Court by three women who previously worked with former news anchor Charlie Rose and accuse him of sexual harassment. The lawsuit also accuses the network of being “fully aware” of Rose’s behavior, according to the Washington Post.

Capitalizing on the time of year you feel most inspired to try new things, Netflix is dropping home-decluttering priestess Marie Kondo’s new series, “Tidying Up,” on New Year’s Day. In the trailer, released Wednesday, Kondo, a sweet, fragrant morning lily, waltzes into messy homes overtaken by clutter and “sparks joy…

After more than a decade on the air, a typical 42-minute episode of any installment of Bravo’s Real Housewives is often one long ad for low-cal margaritas, fat-binding shapewear, non-existent toaster ovens, sports bars, gyms, nail polish, and mass-produced sequin jumpsuits. The housewives are hustlers and their best…

On Tuesday night, Christine Blasey Ford made a rare public statement when she presented former gymnast Rachael Denhollander with Sports Illustrated’s Inspiration of the Year award.

Google has long taken over what is probably a critical part of all our brains, like the one that encourages us to think in complete sentences when we have a question. (Catch me clumsily punching “roasted carrots oven 400 degrees how long” into my phone roughly once every few months.) The inquiries we pop into this…

You already know about the fight that went down on Tuesday between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. (Wall.)

“Lay off the booze” is a great old-timey phrase that doesn’t get used enough, but Ellen Pompeo is very Out Here these days (RuPaul’s Drag Race judge? Hellurrr!). Us Weekly is extremely careful to note that when Ellen quote-tweeted the Kathie Lee and Hoda Twitter account for what she seemed to think misrepresented her P…