Paris Jackson to Willow Smith: ‘I feel like my dad would be proud’
Paris Jackson joined friend Willow Smith for Smith’s first “Red Table Talk Takeover” and we learned how incredibly similar the two…
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Jada Pinkett Smith shares unpublished Tupac Shakur poem to mark his birthday
Hollywood star Jada Pinkett Smith has posted a never-before-seen poem written for her by deceased rapper Tupac Shakur, who would have turned 50 on…
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Alaska Airlines reveals new Pride-themed livery
As always, June is a-jostle with corporations revealing their Pride-themed initiatives, but one US airline has gone a little further than the usual…
Continue Reading Canadian businessman and wife plead guilty to violating quarantine rules after flying to indigenous community to get Covid-19 vaccine
A Canadian businessman and his wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating quarantine requirements after flying to a small indigenous town in the…
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Rita Moreno defends Lin-Manuel Miranda over ‘In the Heights’ colorism controversy
Rita Moreno is standing by her good friend Lin-Manuel Miranda. The actress appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Tuesday night…
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‘In the Heights’ reignites long-standing conversations about colorism in the Latinx community
Franceli Chapman knows what Washington Heights looks like. The uptown Manhattan neighborhood where Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the…
Continue Reading Bruce Springsteen and The Killers drop new song ‘Dustland’
Talk about a collaboration. The Killers and Bruce Springsteen have joined forces on a new track called “Dustland.” It is a remake of The…
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How our ancestors conquered the dark to produce the world’s oldest art
Caves, often their deepest reaches, were humanity’s first art galleries, where early artists produced star maps, hunting scenes and friezes of…
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‘This is also a face of Latinidad’: How Gina Torres made producers rethink their ideas of American beauty
For decades, Gina Torres has carved out a career in Hollywood feeling like she couldn’t fully express herself. Now, the Afro-Latina actor is…
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Zara under fire after top designer sends Palestinian model inflammatory messages
Fashion giant Zara is under fire after its head women’s designer, Vanessa Perilman, sent inflammatory messages to Palestinian model Qaher…
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Australian region covered in cobwebs as spiders flee floods
It’s an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare: towns draped in spider webs. Residents of the Australian region of Gippsland in the state of…
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Rihanna’s lingerie line is offering crotchless, butt-revealing leggings. The internet isn’t sure it wants them
Whether at the Met Gala or in the pages of Vogue, Rihanna has never played it safe with her own fashion choices. But it’s not clear if fans of…
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A Jane Austen scholar uncovered new evidence of the author’s family ties to the anti-slavery movement
The study of Jane Austen’s novels, many of them about 200 years old, is never complete. And neither is the excavation of the beloved…
Continue Reading Remote Big Bend sheds a different light on the US frontier
It’s late afternoon in Santa Elena Canyon — a 19-mile gorge that separates Big Bend National Park in West Texas and three national parks…
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Joe Jonas crashed a Jonas Brothers-themed spin class
Joe Jonas surprised a SoulCycle class that was playing his music while he was in Atlanta. The singer was visiting the city on business and had a free…
Continue Reading Big Bend sheds a different light on the US frontier
It’s late afternoon in Santa Elena Canyon — a 19-mile gorge that separates Big Bend National Park in West Texas and three national parks…
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ delivers a major shock in its fourth-season finale
After at times feeling like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown in terms of its narrative arc, “The Handmaid’s Tale”…
Continue Reading Why I love going to nudist beaches
Filled with nerves, I intentionally left my bikini behind before embarking on my first nudist beach experience on the uninhabited Lokrum Island in…
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What you need to know about California’s reopening
More than 15 months after becoming the first state in the US to implement a stay-at-home order due to the Covid-19 pandemic, California fully…
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‘California is turning the page.’ Reopening celebrated with dancing after midnight and baseball bobblehead giveaway
California lifted most of its Covid-19 restrictions Tuesday as part of a grand reopening in which the state ended capacity limits, physical…
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