Amber Mark is one of the better musicians to emerge in the last several years, her rich, lustrous, jazz-honed voice lending itself to soulful house salves as much as R&B break-up jams. When she visited the Jezebel offices to talk about her most recent EP, the eminently fantastic Conexao, she described her sound as a…
Shannon Purser has made a name for herself playing teenage characters who are defiantly themselves. But the actor, who you probably know better as Barb from Stranger Things, tells Jezebel this wasn’t always the case for her when she was younger.
Lynn Whitfield stopped by the Jezebel office to talk about her role on the Sanaa Lathan Netflix series Nappily Ever After, a movie where Whitfield plays, she says, “a mother who believes in fairytales.” In her decades-long career, she’s never shied away from roles that are some combination of challenging, prickly,…
On the Starz series Power, which just completed its fifth season in familiar dramatic fashion, La La Anthony plays a character who’s perpetually ride or die. Omari Hardwick leads the show, as a businessman slash drug kingpin, James “Ghost” St. Patrick, who constantly fails in his attempts to rehabilitate his life and…
In an interview with Jezebel, Lynn Whitfield, who stars in the OWN series Greenleaf and in Sanaa Lathan’s upcoming Netflix film Nappily Ever After, talked about the performative lengths awards shows go to in order to highlight perceived diversity. Case in point: Monday night’s Emmy Awards, where Regina King broke the…
Welcome to Styling, Jezebel’s new video series in which we show how creative people communicate who they are through the clothes they wear—how they embody their work, their personalities, and why they’re just so cool.
Michael Arceneaux, a longtime writer and author of I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé, describes his first book as his B’Day or Janet album. Released in July, the book is a series of charmingly cynical, reflective essays about his Houston upbringing, finding his…
Think of your most awkward middle school moment—of which there are likely many—and now imagine being a teenager in 2018. Chances are, you’ll feel a kinship with 15-year-old Elsie Fisher, the actor who plays Kayla in Bo Burnham’s sweet directorial debut Eighth Grade (a movie Jezebel clearly loves). In her remarkable…
Marsha Ambrosius’s light touch is so refreshing in a world of increasingly heavy-handed communication. The singer, who was born in England and worked for years as one half of the neo-soul group Floetry, has a catalog full of slow-burning R&B. At times, her passion takes a matter-of-fact turn for the explicit, as it…
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Grown-ish, the black-ish spinoff starring Yara Shahidi, turned out to be a success in large part because of its talented (and also hot) ensemble cast. On the series, which completed its impressive first season in March (former Jezebel staffer Kara Brown was in the writer’s room), Chloe and Halle Bailey (widely known…
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
The idea of saying “fuck it” to your shit job and taking your rock band on the road sounds like the stuff of teen fantasies and cult ’80s movies, or at the very least a nominally bad idea. But it’s 2018 and all bets are off—and if you have even a small fraction of the talent that friend-of-Jezebel TOMI does, you’re…
In Part 1 of our roundtable with former reality TV stars Amber Marchese (The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Season 6), Irene McGee (The Real World: Seattle), and Shii Ann Huang (Survivor: Thailand), they discussed the filming process, producers, and how the melodramatic sauce gets made. Here’s the second part of that…
In late April, Jezebel moderated a conversation between three reality TV alumni: Amber Marchese (Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Season 6), Irene McGee (MTV’s The Real World: Seattle), and Shii Ann Huang (CBS’s Survivor: Thailand). In a lively discussion, the trio traded stories about their filming…
From RuPaul to Lady Bunny, drag queens have attracted the mainstream spotlight in recent years. But those who love the art form beyond Drag Race know that there’s far more to drag than performances of over-the-top femininity. Drag kings and male impersonators have been perfecting and honing their own performances of…
