Apparently someone decorated a weed that was growing out of a crack in a sidewalk in Toledo, Ohio with tinsel and now this small and brave holly jolly plant has gone viral. “There’s a little Christmas magic pushing up through the pavement at one of the busiest intersections in Toledo,” a local WTVG news reporter declar…

Where Johnny Depp gets a sympathetic Rolling Stone cover story that doesn’t even approach the topic of his ex-wife Amber Heard’s abuse allegations with him, Amber Heard is in the Washington Post writing about the death threats and career hurdles she received for just speaking out.

A federal judge has struck down most of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s policy blocking victims of domestic and gang-related violence from seeking asylum. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered that the government stop enforcing the policy, and ordered the return of plaintiffs who had been…

Every year, having decorated my Christmas tree, I stand back and say: “You know, it could use more lights.” No matter how many lights are on there, I figure a few more would be better. If you celebrate Christmas, you almost certainly have some similarly small and seemingly inconsequential but very firmly held decoratin…

No one seems to dispute that Shelly Miscavige, wife of David Miscavige, Scientology’s Chairman of the Board, has not been seen in public since 2007. And no one has more persistently, vocally wondered where she is than Leah Remini, ex-Scientologist turned host of an A&E show, Aftermath, that vigorously criticizes the…

There is no shortage of things to read about our current political moment, but way too much of it is stenography for people in power that is nakedly transactional or stenography for people in power that mistakes itself as deep. There was endless garbage published in 2018, but these things were very good.

Dedicated fans of Japanese reality show Terrace House don’t even need to verbalize how good the fashion is on the panel hosts, from the avant-garde sweaters and quirky mix-and-match looks of comedians Ryota Yamasato and Azusa Babazono to the cut-off rock tees of den mother and former pop music icon You. But Netflix…

The gods of music keep blessing us with more music than we can handle—visual albums, three-song EPs, music-video trailers—not to mention, more than enough platforms to enjoy this endless stream. There’s a lot of fucking music! Which means there’s a lot of bad music. Here are the records, aside from every Zayn song…

Online backlash prompted Forever 21 to pull a listing from its website that featured a white model wearing a “Wakanda Forever” sweater, a reference to the fictional African nation from the movie Black Panther. But maybe this—I don’t know, I’m spitballing here—isn’t actually a huge deal at all.

David Lee Roth has jumped into skincare.

This article is co-published with Documented, a New York City-based news organization that covers immigration issues in the City.

Articles about sexual assault allegations against two musicians— Victor Vazquez, also known as Kool A.D., of defunct hip-hop group Das Racist and Jesus David Torres, also known as Dahvie Vanity of the scene band Blood on the Dancefloor—were published Tuesday at Pitchfork and the Huffington Post respectively. While the…

Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce was on Tucker Carlson’s show on Tuesday to talk about her “tipping point.” The point at which she tipped—when nothing was the same and would never be the same again is, yes, you guessed correctly —being made to call the gingerbread men in her life gingerbread people, “when, obviously,…

Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced it would begin fingerprinting family members who came forward to sponsor children being held in government custody after crossing the border, as well as fingerprint all adults in the sponsor’s household. That move raised fears that fewer people would be willing to…

About three minutes into her performance of her new single “Imagine,” on Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Ariana Grande unleashed. And what came out sounded something like the whistle notes that Minnie Ripperton used to adorn her 1975 hit “Lovin’ You,” and, of course, those that close out…

Wait, what is this warm, nice feeling in my heart? Some good news? My friends, yes: Abortion will be free and legal in Ireland starting in the new year, once the president signs off on the new legislation. Earlier this month, both the lower and upper houses of the Irish legislature voted to pass the law allowing a…

I’ll wager I’m among the few—perhaps the only—person who counts a cheaply published piece of erotica titled Full Bodied Charmer as a cherished book.