Just when you thought this cursed year was going to slip out the back door in peace, it burps out another bit of very terrible news. Glee star Mark Salling, who played Puck, was arrested this morning by the LAPD for child pornography. According to TMZ: We're told the LAPD's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force obtained a warrant and served it Tuesday morning, as first reported by the TV show...
I have a strangely-encompassing love for the end of December: not just the holidays themselves, all twinkling lights and delicious things to eat and wine with lunch, but the chill in the air, the ever-so-slightly melancholic songs about lost loves and returning home, the sense that the entire world is preparing not just to start over with the new year, but also, to reflect on the year gone by and mine...
In a pretend Fox News interview earlier this month, David Duke--a former Grand Dragon of the KKK--shared some thoughts about GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. Unsurprisingly, Duke thinks Trump is a swell guy and is glad he's looking out for "European Americans"-- yet, surprisingly, he thinks Trump is actually more radical than he, the former Grand Dragon of the KKK, is. No, really! As far as what I see,...
Think about hypnotism. What do you see? A dead-eyed subject, with never-ending spirals for eyes, following a hypnotists's demand like a zombie. Maybe you've encountered a self-proclaimed hypnotist at a college party who was more experienced with psychedelics than they were mind control, but found themselves thriving in spaces full of already-intoxicated people. Hypnotism is still considered more mystical...
Kris Jenner has managed to achieve astronomical success by skillfully leveraging her children for waist trainer endorsement deals and a television program that is the most inane and brilliant thing to hit E! in perhaps its entire existence. How does she do it, you wonder? This question, long pondered by pundits worldwide, now has an answer: by "hosting" an infomercial hawking Wicks of Wonder, magical...
When my boyfriend asked me why I was hesitant about coming to spend Christmas with his family in Brooklyn this year, I knew I’d have to tell him what happened fourteen years ago. On December 24th, 2001 I heard five loud bangs. I was only 10, but I knew what gunshots sounded like. It wasn’t an uncommon sound in my neighborhood. My neighbor’s body hit the cold concrete with a loud thud. Everyone...
Apparently those anti-fur folks still exist; we know this because they’re pissed at Miranda Lambert for showing off a full-length fur coat on Instagram yesterday. "I'm so fancy... You already know" my Nonny gave me two of her fur coats! I definitely know where I got my love for DIAMONDS, FUR and WHISKEY! #familytradition #grandmastreasures #besthandmedownever #wandathewanderer #bringitwinter A...
Bill Cosby is currently suing supermodel Beverly Johnson for defamation of character, claiming that she lied about him drugging her in a 2014 Vanity Fair article in order to sell more copies of her autobiography. According to court documents obtained by Radar, Cosby is claiming that he could not possibly have drugged Johnson, or drugged and raped any of the more than 50 women who have said he drugged...
James Franco is publishing a new chapbook titled Straight James/Gay James, which is what it sounds like: Poetry about James Franco and whether he’s straight or gay. Hot tip, James: You can be both if you so desire. Here’s the book’s summary: Straight James / Gay James, actor James Franco’s new chapbook of poems, explores the facets of his public and private personas. Straight James / Gay James...
Aaron Klein, the owner of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, has finally complied with a court order to pay $136,927.07 ($135k, plus accrued interest) to Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, the lesbian couple they refused to bake a wedding cake for. The order that they pay the fine was handed down in July 2nd by Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian. Is that expensive? It sure is! $135k is a whole lot of money--certainly...
As they won’t stop telling us, celebrities are just like us. That means they get get angry, sad, and just confused — and the rise of Instagram and Twitter means they too sometimes spiral out and share it all online. Some celebrities (hi, Chrissy Teigen and Taylor Swift) know exactly how to manipulate their millions of followers and earn back some of the power they lose by being a full-time public...
Comedian Beth Stelling has been killing it this year. From the release of her Comedy Central Half Hour to her stand-up album Simply the Beth, she's shown her immeasurable talent, making comedy that exudes charm and warmth while simultaneously roasting the darker parts of the human experience. While it's common for comedians to exploit their personal lives in joke-form on stage, sharing personal experiences...
I like music that transports me to a floating cloud full of champagne and freshly fluffed pillows. There's a specific musical dysphoria in dreamy music when it manages to balance finely-tuned skill with a commitment to atmospheric lyricism. I like voices that can sit hard on the ground and cut into you with their ferocity, but choose to fly to the top of the glass kaleidoscopes they echo inside of. This...
Here are the shining gems pulled out of the constantly-flowing river of garbage that culture can be. Treat this as your reading list for the quiet weeks before and after the holidays, or buy any and all of these for anyone you forgot about this year. The two books published this year that I liked a lot were Elisa Albert’s After Birth and Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. However,...
While it'd be fun to parse out for the elven hundredth time the large psychic and emotional void left by the end of "Mad Men" or the quiet, teary demise of "Parenthood," we'd much rather lift up the shiny and the new that entered the television landscape this year. There was an awful lot of good television out there, most of it available all at once for binging on your streaming platform of choice....
Infamous Mexican drug cartel king ‘El Chapo’, nee Joaquín Guzmán has been caught. The cocaine kingpin was captured in the Mexican town of Los Mochis after trying find actors and producers to star and make a biopic about his own life. Well, that was stupid.
Who knew such insane narcissism could get yourself… More »
The Netflix documentary series ‘Making A Murderer’ has captured the nation and overtaken most our time so far in 2016.
Most of you think Steven Avery is innocent in the murder of Teresa Halbach, and so you will be pleased to learn that the serious hot shot lawyer Kathleen Zellner would be taking… More »
Say what??
Cynthia Nixon, one of the stars of the most popular HBO show ever, Sex and the City just revealed that the stories on the show were all 100% totally real. Turns out, that this was actually a rule for the writers – that the sexcapades could not be fiction. It makes… More »
Texas Republican Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz told voters in Iowa that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton lied to them about Benghazi and that voters should consider “administering a spanking,” in the same manner in which he disciplines his 5-year-old daughter when she lies.
The full disgusting quote was:
“In my… More »
“Is it the most effective use of police resources? No.” That’s what a Toronto officer had to say after authorities responded to an alleged assault that resulted in minor injuries at an apartment in the city on Tuesday. The problem? Someone apparently got upset that their roommate had woken up too early to take a… More »
We originally thought that wildly popular comedy star Amy Schumer had snagged the most perfect boyfriend ever, but turns out there may be more there than meets the eye, or rather, Instagram filter.
Jezebel did some digging and found this Instagram photo of her new lover Ben Hanisch posing in a black and… More »
Fine–she says it’s Jesus, but it looks way more like Lemmy to us. More »
When you’re starting a New Year, you might feel one of two things: excited and refreshed to really put yourself out there and find a woman you connect with… or totally burnt out of the whole process of dating. There’s no way around it — finding someone you want to go on a second date… More »
Paul Le Page recently warned of men named “D-Money” coming to Maine to sell drugs and impregnate white girls. … More »
Amandla Stenberg, who you might know as Rue from the Hunger Games movies, or as Jaden Smith’s prom date, or for calling out Kylie Jenner’s nonsense on Twitter, or as February’s Teen Vogue cover model (interviewed, no less, by Solange), came out as bisexual via Teen Vogue’s More »
The track is called “Untitled 2″ and Kendrick fully exploded with a level of energy during his performance that made me wonder — how DOES he breathe?! More »
Slate tells us that an involved K-beauty skin care routine is the way to assert your feminism – but the K-beauty bloggers quoted in the article say otherwise. More »
It’s a depressing to me that cases like this do in fact contribute to the future silencing of victims who come forward. … More »
Clearly, these people have some poor comprehension skills, which could affect their judgement in dicey situations. … More »
I imagine Jeb’s young life as a perpetual emotional storm of pleas for confirmation of his masculinity, a series of vulnerable yet guarded motions towards his dad and older brother expressing his deepest desire: “Hey guys! I can play too!”… More »
Forget asking if women can have it all, 2016 is about asking if MEN can have it all. More »
Instead of making James Bond a woman, why not just make a new movie about a female spy that could be just as iconic? More »
Jennifer Lawrence sat down for a quick Q&A to go along with her Glamour cover this month, and she managed to pack a lot of wisdom into two short minutes. For instance: “Fuckery” is a great word, you’ll always have zits, and, most importantly, it is possible to make a sandwich out of… More »
