Beauty blogger Amena Khan, who recently landed an ad campaign with L’Oreal Paris, has pulled out of the campaign after coming under fire for old tweets expressing criticism of Israel.
Hours after Netflix released the documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson last Friday, director/trans activist/researcher Reina Gossett claimed the film was unfairly profiting off her ideas and work. The Netflix doc, directed by David France (whose 2012 doc How To Survive a Plague was nominated for an…
Like any major incident the Kardashians/Jenners find themselves involved in, Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi Short Film Controversy (or KJPSFC, as it’s come to be known) has started a countdown in the minds of the show’s most rabid fans (including myself), as they await to see how E! will handle the drama in a future episode…
Fashionista asks, "Is the model in this new (and awesome) Chanel lipstick film saying ‘Men hate women who read'?" Well, no, she's not. She is saying:
Usually the only controversies Gwyneth Paltrow deals with have to do with cookbooks and juice cleanses, but she stepped in a real mire this weekend when she tweeted the n-word. It happened on Friday night when Gwyneth was in Paris and joined her BFF Beyonce for Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne tour stop. While…
Leave it to the hyper-local neighborhood bloggers to do the sleuthing: a local East Village blog points out that the video of Ryan Gosling breaking up a random street fight couldn't have happened this weekend due to the absence of the neon-colored installation that's been on street poles for a couple of weeks now. A…
South Burlington High School students demand their inalienable right to sexydance! So when their school banned grinding at the Winter Ball, the kids said, "nuh-uh, no way," and refused to buy tickets. No grinding = no kids = no dance.
After Universal Pictures pulled the "gay" joke out of the trailer for Ron Howard's movie The Dilemma, Vince Vaughn has addressed the controversy. Unfortunately, he doesn't exactly seem contrite.
PETA, with its spoiled-12-year-old-meets-mid-90's-Marilyn-Manson need for cheap attention, has resorted to the oldest trick in the book: offending the Church. Oh, and while they're at it, they managed to objectify women! Two birds!
In the days since we gave our take on Cintra Wilson's J.C. Penney review, the thing's taken on a life of its own: Wilson's three apologies, a barrage of abuse on her site and a lot of media coverage.
"Wow, Ann Curry really hates this woman." That was the text sent by a friend at 10:59pm yesterday, following the conclusion of Dateline NBC's special on Nadya Suleman, mom to 14 and enemy to millions.
After hearing lots about the Ms. Obama cover controversy from detractors (but only a short response from publisher Eleanor Smeal), we decided to go straight to Smeal — and executive editor Kathy Spillar — herself.