We buy makeup because, on some level, we all want to live the kind of life that makeup wants us to live. A concealer, touted by blogs and YouTube and waterlogged magazines at your nail salon, promises to make you look like yourself, but with the skin of an angel, all plasticky and soft focus, like a permanent Instagram filter slapped on top of your actual, real face. Lipstick will change you from...
I’m done. The non-controversy around News Genius broke me. I’ve been denying it for years, but it seems true enough, now: Millennials are entitled. If you haven’t heard about it, bless your soul. The whole thing centers on a Twitter call-out from herpes blogger Ella Dawson, whose post “I Am Not ‘Suffering’ from Herpes” was annotated critically by an acquaintance and then, the next day,...
I work in a small office of seven people. I’m close with all my co-workers except “Susan,” one of my superiors who’s a backstabbing complainer. I know for a fact she would ruin my good time (and my coworkers’ time, too) if she were to come to my wedding. I’ve quietly invited everyone in my office, but I haven’t invited Susan. Now I'm afraid what will happen if she finds out. Do I have...
Five players on the beloved U.S. women’s soccer team have filed a wage discrimination lawsuit against their employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation. The affidavit for the lawsuit notes that for the last season, in which the U.S. Women’s National Team won the Women’s World Cup, the USSF was projecting a $429,929 loss for the WNT and the Men’s National Team combined -- but that thanks almost exclusively...
In an extensive, tell-all interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Marcia Clark reveals that being a rape survivor was why she decided to pursue law in the first place. The former prosecutor is back in the spotlight due to the popularity of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story: The People VS O.J. Simpson, which Marcia herself has described as so accurate that it's "hard to watch." While visiting...
Whew, this is all. Too. MUCH. Here is Rihanna's new video for "Kiss It Better," a sexy, Prince-influenced slow jam that I argue is the best song to sing alone in one's bedroom while putting on eyeliner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49lY0HqqUVc There's a lot to appreciate here! Rihanna's body, for one. Rihanna's consistent use of aerolae as accessory, for another. Also, those cleverly-placed dice...
A Polish beer company calling themselves "The Order of The Yoni" has set up an IndieGoGo campaign in the hopes that people across the world will give them money so that they can make beer from the vaginal bacteria of Czech model Alexandra Brendlova. So far, they have raised 11 euro. The makers of the beer claim that drinking beer made from a model's vaginal bacteria is basically the same thing as...
I'm constantly impressed that James Corden knows the precise words to so many songs. Carpool karaoke might be the most popular export from his Late Late Show, so it's no surprise CBS gave him a carpool karaoke primetime special. Superstar singer and diva of our hearts Jennifer "Jenny JLo Jen" Lopez stopped by to help Corden get through the carpool lane with hilarious results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQIsdod0LWo I...
The algorithm that nobody wanted is maybe on its way!! Sometime in the near future Instagram will change its algorithm so that your feed will prioritize posts based on your behavior instead of in the reverse chronological order that we've all come to know and love. As Brian Feldman at The Cut rightfully notes, this is no big deal: basically what you like to look at will show up in your feed, but...
Susan Sarandon sat down on All In With Chris Hayes Monday night and suggested to an incredulous American public that rotten Clementine Donald Trump might do more for the country than Hillary Clinton. She opens by telling Hayes that she’s spent some time on the campaign trail for Bernie, extolling the virtues of the senator from Vermont, but in a much more measured tone than your white cousin with...
We’ve come a long way, baby. This week’s title refers not just to the many commenters who have called – nay, pleaded – for the search for Dater X 4.0 to begin. It also refers to the surprising path that my life has taken since I started writing this column. Looking back at my first installment, I was excited. Optimistic. Maybe a little self-defeating, but eager to try, try again. Chronicling...
You know your business design is tacky when it causes the ghost of a literary icon to rise from beyond the grave in order to give you a bad Yelp review. While it didn't cause a full-on resurrection of the recently deceased Harper Lee, Donald Trump's aggressively gaudy Trump Taj Mahal casino and resort in Atlantic City left such a bad impression on Lee that she wrote that she hoped even her dead spirit...
Last Week Tonight was off last night, but that did not prevent John Oliver from releasing a web exclusive video on two of my favorite things on earth--Cadbury Creme Eggs and YouTube conspiracy videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNS4lecOaAc Oliver jumps from random fact to tangentially related fact in order to prove that the Cadbury Creme Egg is in fact part of an illuminati conspiracy, just...
Rumours a swirling about an upcoming Spice Girls reunion tour to commemorate the group's 20th anniversary. Mel B, (Scary Spice) recently said that it would be "rude not to celebrate" the anniversary of their debut single "Wannabe." She also added that "hopefully something will be happening pretty soon". If that isn't an affirmative nod to a reunion happening then I don't know what is! Oh please let...
IFC's hit sketch show Portlandia came alive at a Bernie Sanders rally in Portland, Oregon on Friday evening. The crowd went ape-shit when a cute little bird landed on Bernie's podium during his speech. In true cute Bernie fashion, his response was of course priceless: “I think, I think there may be some symbolism here. I know it doesn’t look like it, but that bird is really a dove asking us for...
When the new Submarine Voyage launched in mid-1959, eight costumed mermaids splashed around in Tomorrowland’s lagoon as part of the celebratory festivities. Six years later, Disneyland brought back a new group of mermaids for three consecutive
summers. Though the mermaids were popular, extensive exposure to the lagoon’s chlorine eventually became a concern, and park… More »
Sicko conservative as hell Indiana Governor Mike Pence has signed one of the most extreme anti-abortion laws in the country and women are seriously pissed.
Part of his law includes a ban on abortions based on race, sex and disability, requiring abortion doctors to ask invasive personal questions of women seeking to terminate… More »
Smithers’s sexuality has been an open secret on The Simpsons for a long time. The character is Mr. Burns’s assistant and has been in love with his boss since the beginning. Voiced by Harry Shearer, Smithers has had many episodes showing him fantasizing about being coupled with Mr. Burns and other obvious “hints.”
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Newly divorced actress Drew Barrymore decided to get right back to work on important things: wine.
Barrymore attended the Pebble Beach Food & Wine event to promote her company Barrymore Wines. This is just one day after news broke that she and husband Will Kopelman are divorcing.
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Breakups suck. There’s no getting around it. Whether it’s sudden (ouch) or a long time coming (oof), breakups hurt. They’re messy, literally and figuratively. (If you’re a crier like me, there will be snot. Gross.) And breakups have a way of derailing the rest of your life — fresh out of a breakup, it seems like there’s… More »
Peter Dinklage finally hosted Saturday Night Live last night, and everyone was hoping for a thorough Game of Thrones scoop. He started off joking that George R.R. Martin wrote his opening monologue script but we quickly learned that this was a joke, and Bobby Moynihan was perfect playing Martin for the skit.
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Rihanna has had a pretty good weekend so far! The diva arrived at the New Jersey Center for Performing Arts on Friday evening for the annual Black Girls Rock! event.
This yearly event helps promote the arts for young women of color as well as encourage dialogue and analysis of the ways women… More »
When Forever 21 launched their Forever21Plus Instagram page back in February, it was immediately hit with mixed feelings. Sure, customers loved having models with more diverse body types represented, but the page advertised as the “destination for fashion sizes 0X – 3X” while showing photos of people who definitely weren’t plus-sized. Read more on College Candy… … More »
Oscar winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio may be banned from returning to Indonesia due to his recent criticisms that palm oil plantations are destroying the country’s rain forests and endangering wildlife. Indonesian officials are pissed.
Leo made a one-day visit to the protected Mount Leuser National Park in Sumatra last weekend. He posted photos… More »
Attention Gen Xers and any older Millenials who remember them! Guns N’ Roses are back baby!
The infamous 80s-90s rock band surprised fans with a performance on Friday night inside Los Angeles’ Troubadour music venue.
Slash and Axl Rose performed for the first time last night since 1993, can you believe… More »
If you have opened up Facebook or Twitter yesterday and this morning at all, you’ve probably already seen a million people “Powerpuffing” themselves — that is — made a Powerpuff Girls version of themselves through this site that Cartoon Network released to promote the new season of The Powerpuff Girls that is returning to the… More »
A bull escaped from a slaughter house and escaped from its holding area in Queens on Friday night. The poor Black Angus then ran through the streets of New York City before it was captured by none other than Jon Stewart and taken to safety because Jon Stewart is now St. Francis Of Assisi apparently. More »
Cara Delevingne took a break from modeling, and while many speculated she was quitting the business entirely so she could focus on her acting career, the British model revealed on Twitter that it was actually due to a struggle with depression. Read more on Newser… … More »
Sick of your boring old natural human skin? Well now you don’t have to have that stupid biological stuff anymore because researchers from RIKEN University and Tokyo University in Japan just announced that they have created the first lab-grown skin that has hair follicles and sweat glands.
Biologist at RIKEN in Tokyo, Takashi… More »
We’re all guilty of hitting up the McDonald’s drive-thru around 3 a.m. on a Saturday night for some munchies or swinging by Sonic when we need a quick snack during the day. While fast food generally won’t have you running to the bathroom later, the practices still aren’t always the greatest. Luckily, an informative Reddit thread asked fast food workers what to… More »
Amber Rose’s MuvaMoji App, which is definitely very different than Kim Kardashian’s Kimoji, has been available for 24 hours and already made a cool $2 million. According to TMZ, who probably celebrates with an office-wide round of 5-hour energy shots any time there’s Amber Rose-Kim Kardashian news, Rose claims there was no attempt to rip off noted frenemy Kim Kardashian’s app.
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Nick Jonas is, if nothing else, the most ubiquitous of the Jonas brothers. Your local H&M is almost certainly playing one of his sex jams as we speak. But, you’re thinking to yourself, doesn’t Jonas wear a purity ring? Aha! “I… made the choice to have sex,” says Jonas in a fantastic Reddit AMA. Ok!
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