This Year, Cannes Was All About the Movie Stars
The Cannes Film Festival in 2025 was all about the movie stars. Dakota Johnson and Emma Stone were at a beach club with Austin Butler, Joaquin Phoenix, and Robert Pattinson.…
Kristen Kish’s Return To Her Birth Country Was Beautifully Complicated
When Kristen Kish, winner of Top Chef Season 10 and now its host, traveled to South Korea in June 2022, she was nervous. Adopted at four months by an American…
Bella Ramsey on ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Finale & Missing Pedro Pascal
Major spoilers ahead for season two of The Last of Us. Much has changed since Bella Ramsey’s casting in The Last of Us was first announced in 2021, both in…
How Dad Rock Made Niko Stratis a Woman
But I do think that Frank Black has a sort of playful softness to him. I think when Kim Deal was still in the band and actively writing songs, I…
The Met’s Madame X-Rated Opportunity
Welcome back to Haul of Fame, your must-read beauty roundup for new products, new ideas and a Walmart influencer showdown. (It’s not who you think…) Included in today’s issue: Beachwaver,…
Jenny Slate Talks ‘Dying for Sex’ & the Complexities of Radical Friendship
Over the course of just eight episodes, Dying for Sex turns several common cultural tropes on their head. The FX miniseries stars Jenny Slate and Michelle Williams as Nikki Boyer…
Law & Order’s Christopher Meloni Does Not Ship Benson & Stabler
Since the premiere of Law & Order: Organized Crime, Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) hasn’t been able to catch a break. His wife was killed in a car bomb meant for…
‘BOOP! The Musical’ Villain Erich Bergen Just Wants to Entertain
BOOP! The Musical is many things: a romantic comedy, a feminist manifesto, a sci-fi journey through time and space, and an over-the-top sensory experience (a week after seeing it, I’m…
The New Golden Age Of Opening Acts
This January, Gracie Abrams announced a new opening act for a string of European tour dates: bedroom-pop singer Dora Jar, who would warm up crowds at venues like London’s 20,000-capacity…
Chase Sui Wonders Can Finally Let Her “Freak Flag Fly” on ‘The Studio’
The first time Chase Sui Wonders attempted comedy, she was still a shy teenager in suburban Detroit. Inspired by the freewheeling, raunchy humor of the Austin Powers movies, Wonders had…