Apparently, Stephen Colbert loves asking cast members of the TV show Black-ish what such a bizarre, incomprehensible word could mean. He’s heard “black” before, and the colloquial add-on “ish,” but combined? Luckily for him, Tracee Ellis Ross has both patience and the desire to promote her show.
Cultural disease Ann Coulter was so bad on The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe that the biggest laugh during her set happened in response to Pete Davidson heckling her. That’s right—it was Ann Coulter’s turn to do the roasting, but she was so bad at it, stammering with poor timing and devoid of cleverness, that she…
Police have been outside Chris Brown’s Tarzana home since about 3 AM PT Tuesday morning waiting on a warrant to search its rooms for a gun he may have threatened an unnamed woman with.
In a mushy moment worthy of the next Best Man sequel, Drake presented Rihanna with MTV’s Video Vanguard Award to close out this year’s VMAs. In a speech that was equal parts charming and awkward, Drake dutifully showered Rihanna with praise as she stood there, admiring both his luscious beard and his unavoidable…
Last week, American swimmer Ryan Lochte shared a harrowing tale with the international media. On the way back from a party celebrating the Rio Olympics, the story went, he and three others were pulled over and violently robbed at gunpoint. In the ensuing days, Brazilian officials have raised doubts about their story.…
BuzzFeed’s Katie J.M. Baker just published an excellent, nuanced and confounding profile of Juanita Broaddrick, the 73-year-old Arkansas woman who has said for years that Bill Clinton raped her. Baker outlines both Broaddrick’s deep and clearly very genuine desire to be believed, as well as the rabid political frenzy…
If you’ve watched cable news coverage of the election for even a fraction of the amount of time that I have over the past year, you’ve become unhinged by the endless parade of glassy-eyed campaign surrogates spouting off meaningless talking points, having conversations that all end in frustrating blue ball agreements…
“Our motto is, when they go low, we go high,” Michelle Obama said in her speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, a vivid, emotional, expertly delivered endorsement of Hillary Clinton that somehow managed to—at least temporarily—wipe away the grime of cynicism and anger that have colored the past…
In an economy where the idea of a woman is often more commercially appealing than the actual presence of one, it is seemingly a natural development that the White Girl brand is now run by a group of men.
Panda. Panda. Panda. By this time in the summer, most of the seasonal hits are a foregone conclusion, so we can all bank our beach bods on hearing Desiigner, Drake, Rihanna and, unfortunately, “Toothbrush” fifty-eleven times before we have to pack away our bikinis.
From the moment Amber Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp in May of this year, the celebrity news cycle has been dominated by on an onslaught of stories detailing new information about their short relationship. As the days pass, headlines alternate between details of its recently exposed tumult—such as Heard’s…
The father of Brock Turner, the ex-Stanford swimmer who was given a paltry six-month sentence in a county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015, is defending his son’s crime—and saying that he should not be imprisoned for only getting “20 minutes of action.”
In 2008, Britney Spears, in the midst of a mental breakdown, was put under the conservatorship of her father, Jamie Spears, and a lawyer, Andrew M. Wallet, after a court ruled that she did not have the capability to manage her own life. Eight years later, Britney (who will soon release a new album) is thriving, but…
A San Jose couple was found murdered in their home Sunday afternoon. Their two sons, ages 22 and 17, are now being held without bail on suspicion of murder. Anonymous sources who claim to have seen the murder scene told several local news agencies that a “rambling diatribe” was written on the walls and floor.
The United States is already struggling to maintain any respect in the world, and now Ralph Lauren, who is always tasked with designing the USA Olympic uniforms, is trying to portray us all as Hamptons-humping WASPs just off an outing on a yacht. Well lookie here, old Gatsby, old boy, our athletes will sneer before…
After a Thursday night performance of the Broadway musical The Color Purple, actual goddess Jennifer Hudson decided to pay tribute to rock icon Prince, who passed away earlier today, with a cover of one of the musician’s most indelible hits. Also, yes, I’m crying right now, it’s very ugly and shiny and red on my face.
Prince is dead. Today is stupid. This year is stupid and the world is stupid. Here are some very not-stupid stories, videos and reflections on the greatness, shadiness and the never-suffering-fools perfection that was Prince.
Prince, the musician who helped define the latter half of the 20th century with his eclectic blend of funk and transgressive sexuality, died Thursday at Paisley Park, his Minnesota property. He was 57.
After multiple news sources reported a fatality at Prince’s recording studio Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minnesota Thursday, Prince’s publicist has confirmed that the famous artist has died. The cause of death has not been revealed.
At Brigham Young University, the flagship school of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints, the Honor Code rules campus life. The Honor Code, a broad and far-ranging document governed by LDS’s Church Education System, covers everything from drinking coffee to a “chaste and virtuous life,” “homosexual behavior,”…
