Daisy Coleman, one of the victims at the heart of the 2012 Maryville, Missouri, rape case—and one of the subjects of the 2016 Netflix documentary Audrie and Daisy, about the near-impossibility of seeing rapists appropriately punished—has died by suicide. She was 23 years old.
“Post-truth” may not be the first phrase that comes to mind when you think of Jay Manuel, America’s Next Top Model creative director and on-air staple. And yet the label fits his new novel The Wig, the Bitch, and the Meltdown like couture. Consider the layers of reality at work, and then consider how one obscures the…
Despite being a woman with mostly questionable judgment, I have impeccable taste in reality television. Give me all your smut, especially when your smut is delivered through a less-than-vague classist commentary, what Bravo mastermind Andy Cohen has called “an Upstairs, Downstairs reality show... like Downton Abbey on…
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Today, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Barry Island, off the coast of South Wales, to hear about the very dire impacts of the coronavirus on the British summer tourism industry. Among the spots they stopped: an arcade, where they took a moment to play a few games. Having seen the pictures, at the risk of…
Disney announced recently that the live-action remake of Mulan will now be available to Disney+ subscribers on September 4 in lieu of a theatrical release. The movie will cost $29.99 to rent, on top of the $6.99 it already costs to subscribe to the service. This is well and good for Disney, a company that is certainly…
2020 has given us a lot: a new Beyoncé visual album, Tiger King, an unprecedented and woefully mishandled global pandemic. It’s also given us #bardcore, a recent viral music trend which reimagines pop songs in “medieval” style.
It’s never been a secret that religion and healthy relationships to sexuality are usually at opposite ends of a very unnecessary binary. But Yes, God, Yes, the directorial debut of Obvious Child writer Karen Maine, gets at why sex-negative religious instruction is so harmful to developing teens, and how it hurts teen…
On August 4, 2019, Jonathan Scott posted an Instagram photo from the set of Carpool Karaoke, featuring Zooey Deschanel, in which he wrote: “Met some new humans today. We had fun. I think I’ll keep them.” It was a chilling joke coming from the human personification of a 500 piece puzzle, made only more concerning by…
By the early hours of Wednesday morning it became clear that Rashida Tlaib had soundly defeated her challenger in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, sending a clear message to those who believed the race would be closer than it was—Tlaib, and the Squad, aren’t going anywhere.
On Tuesday night the Atlanta Dream and Phoenix Mercury faced off in a totally normal drama-free basketball game in which the Dream lost and nothing else happened. Just kidding, the WNBA doesn’t take a step without first trying to make it something bigger. Upon entering the court at IMG Academy in Florida, both teams…
Actress Zoe Saldana apologized for appearing in the trainwreck that was the 2016 Nina Simone biopic Nina, in which she wore a prosthetic nose and makeup to make her skin appear darker.
Last week, President Trump made his pitch to the white women of suburbia, vowing to protect them from the lower class hordes that threaten their way of life.
In what is starting to seem more like a pattern than an outlier, Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush has defeated 10-term incumbent William Lacy Clay, the U.S. Representative for Missouri’s first Congressional District, in the state’s Democratic primary.
Is there any part of history/literature/horror/my anxiety dreams Ryan Murphy won’t touch? Seems like not!
As if the premium of ever-increasing streaming costs hadn’t already pummeled your monthly bank balance, Disney has…
The music producer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has been fired after he was accused of sexual misconduct.
It’s 2005. K-Fed is in the news again, and Paris Hilton is at Pure Night Club with her assistant Kim Kardashian and DJ Caroline D’Amore. Audrina Patridge and Kristin Cavallari are screaming at each other over Justin Bobby. Isn’t it great to be back?
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