Among many shifts in decorum between the Obama and Trump administrations is the White House movie night. Under Obama, the White House hosted films with social or political import such as Hidden Figures, Long Walk to Freedom, and Selma. The Trump White House, meanwhile, has hosted Finding Dory – an objectively strong choice – and […]
On Friday morning, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour sat down with her former Condé Nast colleague Tina Brown at Brown’s annual “Women in the World” summit. Despite the earth-splitting amount of media power on stage, their conversation was relaxed and cordial, quelling any rumors of a former feud. Wintour arrived wearing her signature look: a printed […]
Shortly after the death of Karl Lagerfeld this year, Diane von Furstenberg watched a video clip of a television appearance they’d made together some 40 years earlier. It was hilarious, she said. But it made her realize something new about herself: “I realized that I say exactly the same things now as I did then,” […]
Last year, New York’s Central Park was torn apart by some high-stakes avian drama: a female hawk returned from rehab only to find that her longtime partner had shacked up (nested up?) with a new mistress. “The three of them flew around each other screaming,” one witness said, at the time. “It was chaos.” Perhaps […]
Who talks like this, I found myself thinking as I read Sally Rooney’s second novel. Especially, and I say this at the risk of revealing my utter lack of teenaged sophistication, someone this young. Her characters’ casually brilliant dialogue might be a trick of writing and revising, but if you’ve ever heard Rooney speak, in […]
Jussie Smollett is being sued for more than $130,000 by the City of Chicago. This comes after Smollett refused to reimburse the city for the investigation of the hate crime Chicago police say he staged. In a statement, the city said it is seeking “ the full measure of damages allowed under the false statements ordinance.” […]
The widespread college admissions scam allegedly involved wealthy parents paying fraudster ringleader William “Ring” Singer thousands upon thousands of dollars to bribe or scheme their kids’ way to into prestigious universities. In some instances (as with actress Felicity Huffman’s daughter), Singer allegedly arranged for entrance exam scores to be doctored; in others (like with Full […]
You may have noticed some posts from our friends at the Strategist on the Cut. They’ll be dropping in every now and again, sharing their expertise on the basics you don’t have time to research and the weird and wonderful things you don’t yet know you need. We dug up a bunch of on-sale stuff to get […]
The makers of Unplanned, the anti-abortion propaganda film that’s earned more than $6 million since its debut in late March, waste no time getting to their point. Just minutes after the lights in the theater go dark, viewers are transported to what’s supposed to be a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, where an aspiration abortion […]
Have you checked your group chat today? If so, did you find your friends had flooded it with demands that Andy Samberg run them over with a Mack truck, immediately? Did you feel shocked, if not necessarily appalled, at such an aggressive outpouring of horniness from a group of typically level-headed people? Have you wondered […]