This past weekend, Jessie Graham, a woman from Columbia, TN, passionately defended the queer community during a Maury county board of trustees meeting. The speech was in response to Zachary Fox, the Maury county’s former public library director, resigning at a previous meeting. The resignation came after months of complaints about the library’s Prime Month Display and a family-friendly drag brunch he hosted at a brewery last year. During her speech, Graham described the homophobia used to ban books as “vile and disgusting.” She also used her own experiences to denounce the accusations that have been lobbied against the queer…
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You won’t find too many Halloween-themed restaurants out there in the world and you’ll find precisely one in Long Island, New York: the Haunted House of Hamburgers! Haunted House of Hamburgers just opened up for business on the days leading into Halloween, and it’ll be staying open YEAR-ROUND in Farmingdale, New York. Located on 330 Fulton Street in Farmingdale, Haunted House of Hamburgers aims to bring a little Halloween fun to every day of the year, the restaurant offering up a menu of treats and drinks that are all appropriately horror-themed. The menu includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner options, plus…
“After I got out of the last treatment center, I knew what made me happy,” Selena explains, “and it was connection.” But, per her doctor’s orders, Selena’s planned philanthropic visit to Kenya to see the schools she helped raise money to build was delayed several years due to her 2017 kidney transplant. Once she’s finally apple to make the trip in 2019, she vowed to visit quarterly “The truth is I’ve never felt good enough,” Selena admitted. “Even when I’m on stage in front of a crowd, I’ll always find the one person who doesn’t like me and I believe them, I want…
Selena BTS The superstar appears on the cover of the December issue For the first time ever, Selena Gomez appears on the cover of Rolling Stone, with a stunning shoot and intimate interview in our December issue. In the story, the musician, activist and Only Murders In The Building star opens up about her journey with bipolar disorder, battling the tabloids, the strength she’s found in turning thirty, and much more. Photographer Amanda Charchian shot Gomez in Culver City, CA, in September, as the superstar donned Wolford, Louise Olsen, Sidney Garber and more. Take a look behind-the-scenes above.
The 90s country music sound is having quite a moment right now, and some of the best voices of the era are ready to remind you what made it great. The original lineup of McBride & the Ride, featuring Terry McBride, Ray Herndon and Billy Thomas, is back — and they are debuting their first single in two decades exclusively with The Boot.Out tomorrow (Nov. 4), “Marlboros & Avon” is a nostalgia-rich tune that transports listeners all the way back to the 70s while giving a nod to the trademark sound at the core of previous hits like “Sacred Ground”…
When Mike Judge’s workplace satire, Office Space, was released in 1999, while reviewed positively, it was a massive flop by all considerable measures. It barely made back its $10 million budget, but through word of mouth and video home rentals, it has become a classic cult comedy. And now, after twenty-three years, most of the cast have reunited, albeit in a somewhat peculiar way–for a Black Friday Ad. The Walmart advertisement, posted to their official Youtube, runs for just over a minute and sees the return of Initech, the dead-eyed yet chipper receptionist Nina (Kinna McInroe), everyone’s favorite boss to hate…
Photography by Getty Images From painted-on tears to purposely flushed cheeks, “crying makeup” is about wearing your emotions on your sleeve. But can we only accept sorrow when it’s pretty to look at? By Natalie Michie Date November 2, 2022 Facebook Twitter There’s nothing quite like marinating in your ennui. Sure, being happy is great, but there are days when I’d rather listen to grim music, revel in the gloomy weather and scribble my surly thoughts in a notebook. Sometimes, we all just want to be sad. And that feeling comes to life in TikTok’s latest beauty trend: crying makeup.…
The most vomit-inducing movie since The Exorcist with the most shocking effects sequence since An American Werewolf in London is coming for the Academy Awards! As you may have heard, the same fans who made Damien Leone‘s Terrifier 2 a box office hit this Halloween season are demanding Oscar recognition for the little indie that could. No, it will never actually happen. Yes, it’s a total goof. But you know what? The thought of having members of the Academy endure an extreme unrated horror movie that they would otherwise consider beneath them? That’s just too hilarious of an opportunity to pass up. So, we’re…
This idea wasn’t exactly the cat’s meow in Khloe Kardashian’s eyes.Tristan Thompson wasn’t at daughter True’s 4th birthday party due to a scheduled basketball game, but he wanted to cover the entire bill for the cat-themed celebration, as seen in the Nov. 3 episode of The Kardashians. However, Khloe made it clear she wasn’t in love with the gesture. Khloe learned of Tristan’s plans at True’s birthday when Kris Jenner called Khloe over to fill her in. As Kris told her at the time, “Tristan called me and he said that he privately went ahead and took care of the…
Days before the anticipated drop of their collaborative record, Her Loss, Drake and 21 Savage unveiled the cover art for their new album. While the record release was delayed from its initial Oct. 28 release date after their producer and engineer Noah “40” Shebib contracted Covid-19, the Toronto rapper announced Nov. 4 as the new drop date. “Our brother [Shebib] got Covid in the middle of mixing and mastering the crack,” Drake posted in an Instagram Story. “He’s resting up and we are dropping November 4th.” Last month, Drake and 21 Savage announced the record’s original release date in the music…
The 2023 CMT Music Awards will take the country music awards show somewhere new. After many years in Nashville and a 2022 side trip to Las Vegas, the broadcast will air live from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.In addition to the venue change, a date, host and performer were also announced on Wednesday night (Nov. 2). The 2023 CMT Awards will air on CBS on Sunday April 2, 2023. Kelsea Ballerini is going to co-host and Carrie Underwood is going to perform. She actually played a role in making this announcement.The “Hate My Heart” singer’s Denim & Rhinestones Tour stopped…
From the moment it was announced that Chris Pratt is voicing Mario in Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, that casting decision has been embroiled in controversy. Many people piped in on social media to share their belief that Pratt wasn’t the right actor to voice the Nintendo icon, and that backlash hasn’t died down since we got a quick taste of Pratt’s Mario voice in the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Now Khary Payton, one of Pratt’s co-stars, is coming to the Guardians of the Galaxy actor’s defense over the controversial accent.Khary Payton, whose major credits…
We need to be reading books by Native American authors year-round. We need to be turning to books by Native American authors to support different themes, as the kickoff to many different kinds of lessons, and as bedtime stories even in the middle of July. However, November is Native American Heritage Month, and it’s also one of the prime seasons where misinformation and whitewashing of Indigenous history runs rampant in the United States. It’s when we’re combating “pilgrim and Indian dress up day” in elementary schools and balancing the family themes of the U.S. Thanksgiving against the knowledge that we’re…
Photography by Anthony Tudisco The trail-blazing 21-year-old model chats about her experience working with stylists, THAT Moschino moment and the tweet that started it all. By Annika Lautens Date November 2, 2022 Facebook Twitter Most people aren’t their own role models, but then again, Aaron Rose Philip isn’t most people. Tired of not seeing Black, physically disabled and trans models like herself in fashion magazines, the model and activist decided to become the change she wanted to see in the industry and took to Twitter in 2017 to share her frustrations. Philip hoped to inspire a reaction, but she didn’t…