Tonightâs BAFTAs is a full-circle moment for DaâVine Joy Randolph. âIâm so excited; itâs my first time [at the BAFTAs],â the actorâwho would go on to win the best-supporting-actress prize for her stellar performance in The Holdoversâtells Vogue over the phone a few hours ahead of the ceremony. âItâs such a deep honor to be … Read more
Usher and Jenn Goicoechea may be making it official. People reports that the singer and his longtime girlfriend obtained a marriage license in Clark Country, Nevada, earlier this week. While the marriage certificate has not been filed—meaning they haven’t officially tied the knot—it does signify that Usher and Goicoechea are in it for the long … Read more
A famous example can be seen at Porto’s São Bento Railway Station, where Jorge Colaço, one of Portugal’s foremost azulejo artists, created blue-and-white panels of tiles illustrating scenes of daily life, such as the hay harvest, alongside murals of the country’s history, including one particularly detailed rendering of Prince Henry the Navigator during the conquest … Read more
Thanks to the popularity of TV shows and movies like The L Word, Euphoria, Happiest Season, and Sex Education, the lesbian experience has, of late, enjoyed (fairly) robust representation onscreen. Yet that wasn’t always so; for far too long, lesbians (and other members of the LGBTQ+ community) saw their identities and relationships either ignored or … Read more
Celine Song’s gentle, ruminative romance is, in many ways, the inverse of Gerwig’s no-holds-barred picaresque, but on Oscar nominations morning, their fates were partially mirrored: its sensitive screenplay was recognized alongside its best picture nod, but Song missed out on a best director slot, and the other unfairly overlooked Greta of awards season, Greta Lee, … Read more
The fallout was swift: Keith and Babe Paley quickly dropped Capote as a friend, with Keith even consulting with a lawyer about whether she could sue Capote for libel. Others, like Gloria Vanderbilt, followed suit: “I think Truman really hurt my mother,” CNN journalist and newscaster Anderson Cooper told Sam Kashner in 2012. Gossip columnist … Read more
X content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. One of the things that’s always charmed me about Kirke’s public persona is its overlap with the one maintained by her Girls character, Jessa (except I’m pretty sure Jessa wasn’t on social media, preferring instead to live in ~the moment~). Kirke … Read more
William Brickel’s elongated, sometimes contorted, often intense figures possess an ambiguous beauty that is a bluntly modern nod to 16th-century mannerist styling, offering a whiff of Paul Cadmus, Lucian Freud, or even Egon Schiele. Mostly, though, they hold your eye with their strong and distinctive presence; they crackle with feeling, pulling you in with their … Read more
Gabrielle Korn’s first book Everyone (Else) is Perfect, a memoir about—among other things—the author’s rise from Autostraddle columnist to the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of Nylon Media, came out three years ago during the height of the pandemic, a notoriously rough time for debut authors. Now, she’s watching her first novel Yours for the Taking, a work … Read more
We’re now less than a month away from Super Bowl LVIII—set to take place on Sunday, February 11 at Nevada’s Allegiant Stadium—and the question on everyone’s lips (besides, well, which two teams will face off that day) is this: What will Usher perform at halftime?! The singer, who has now been famous for nearly 30 … Read more
