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Month: May 2025
Khloe’s system also includes balance, as she has a “health section” filled with nuts, raisins and protein bars and jars of “processed stuff” like cheese crackers, cookies and an entire drawer of candy. Though that mixture is pretty standard for a pantry, she joked that she needs “a little bit of each” because she can’t
The Voice is spicing things up. Host Carson Daly shocked judges Adam Levine, John Legend, Kelsea Ballerini and Michael Bublé by revealing an unexpected season 27 twist during the NBC singing competition series’ May 5 episode. “Coaches, lend me your ears,” Daly announced at the end of the latest episode. “I come with great news.” “We’ve
Buy your friends who work in the fashion-sphere a coffee or two and let them sleep in for the next week or so — the 2025 Met Gala has officially come and gone, and it was a major one. (They don’t call it “fashion’s biggest night” for nothing.) Following months of anticipation for how … Continue
Austin City Limits Music Festival has announced its 2025 lineup. Sabrina Carpenter, Hozier, Doja Cat, Luke Combs, the Strokes, John Summit, and Doechii are set to headline the two-weekend event, which will take place October 3-5 and 10-12 at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. Artists further down the jam-packed bill include Rilo Kiley, Marren Morris,
The mayor of Salisbury, Maryland has announced that three Pride flag crosswalks located in his city’s downtown area will be painted over in order to “maintain neutrality in public spaces.” The city is now soliciting artists to propose designs that “[embody] the character, history, or artistic vibrancy of the city,” WMDT reported. One LGBTQ Nation
Stephen King shared the poster for The Long Walk, an adaptation of his 1979 dystopian coming-of-age horror novel. Walk or die when the film arrives in theaters on September 12 from Lionsgate. In The Long Walk, the country holds an annual walking contest in which 100 teens must journey, non-stop and under strict rules, until
Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp addresses why one of the most controversial elements of the upcoming live-action reboot was changed from the original 2002 animated movie. The upcoming feature will reimagine the sci-fi comedy tale of a lonely girl befriending a strange creature that ultimately turns out to be an escaped alien experiment.
Anything starts with the busyness of moving day for a little girl and her father—boxes, a new bedroom, new sights and sounds outside. And since it’s a big event, they are marking the day with cake. Daddy invites his daughter to make three wishes aloud for “anything.” But deep down inside, she’s also making “secret
It might be time for Luann de Lesseps to invite Kim Kardashian to join her cabaret show. The Real Housewives of New York City alum chimed in with her thoughts after many social media users compared the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star’s 2025 Met Gala fashion to the 59-year-old’s cabaret look. After one fan
iHeartRadio Music Awards 2025: Ariana Madix on Why Boyfriend Daniel Wai Is “The One” (Exclusive) Get ready to re-enter the Villa. Love Island USA is returning sooner than fans expected, host Ariana Madix revealed in the first look at season seven of the Peacock dating competition series. “I need to know, the upcoming season of
Italian luxury fashion house Prada Group has recorded a net revenue of €1,341 million (~$1.43 billion) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, ended March 31, marking an increase of 13 per cent year-over-year (YoY). This growth reflects a resilient performance from Prada, maintaining stability despite a high base in the same quarter last year.
Nathan Jerde, the drummer for Chicago’s beloved early-aughts garage rock revivalists the Ponys, has died. Matador Records shared the news last night, Monday, May 5, with the band’s former label, In the Red, also posting a message to Instagram earlier today: “[Jerde] was an awesome guy and a fantastic drummer. To say he will be
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Dylan O’Brien’s younger sibling, Julz O’Brien, has publicly alleged that the two have been estranged for over a year—despite the actor’s previously public support of the LGBTQ+ community, including praise for his trans sibling in a resurfaced 2024 interview. Julz O’Brien, who identifies
Post-production is complete on Pig Hill, a supernatural horror feature from Willy’s Wonderland director Kevin Lewis. Rainey Qualley (Shut In), Shane West (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead) lead the cast, which also includes genre favorite R.A. Mihailoff (Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III). Variety reports that Concourse Media will be shopping the
The Met Gala always gives us some great moments in celebrity fashion, and this year’s event was no exception as it aired on the 2025 TV schedule. There were a lot of black-and-white ensembles, hats, capes and trains befitting of the Met Gala’s “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” theme, including a particularly iconic look from Diana
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View
How you like that…controversy Lisa is stirring with her Met Gala 2025 outfit? When the Blackpink alum first stepped onto the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art May 5, her formfitting Louis Vuitton lace blazer and bodysuit—which she wore with tights only—dropped jaws for its well-aimed homage to the event’s “Tailored For You”
Literal LOL at Teen Vogue‘s Lisa Love telling Lauren, “You’ll always be known as the girl who didn’t go to Paris.” (A line actually lifted from Vogue‘s Anna Wintour, a 2019 Hills deep dive revealed.) More than a decade after that (admittedly questionable) decision and her subsequent split from Jason Wahler, LC has earned a few more laudatory descriptors: New York Times
In the lead-up to this year’s Met Gala, we’ll admit we were a little anxious about how guests would interpret the theme. The corresponding Costume Institute exhibit “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” examines and celebrates the Black dandy and fashion’s role in Black identity, while the official … Continue reading View Original Source Here
André 3000 has surprise released a new instrumental project dubbed 7 Piano Sketches. As the name suggests, it’s a seven-song collection that centers around piano, with the individual tracks prefaced by himself, Emmy Paalman, or Fatima Robinson reading off the song titles. Vocal effects and occasional samples, like a laugh track on “Off Rhythm Laughter,”
In a series of unpublicized revisions last month, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has removed all references to gender and gender identity from at least four federal surveys, The Appeal reports. The changes mean the federal government will no longer monitor violent crimes and other forms of abuse experienced by trans people. Related
The found footage immersion of The Blair Witch Project meets the scope and emotion of Stephen King in The October Film Haunt. The 336-page debut novel from Shirley Jackson Award nominee Michael Wehunt will be published in hardcover, e-book, and audio book on September 30 via St. Martin’s Press. In the book, a woman is
Before Squid Game season 3’s premiere on Netflix, the Korean show seems to have already solved one of Gi-hun’s biggest mysteries. Arguably, Squid Game season 2’s games were a level above the ones featured in the first installment of the series. The raised stakes in the games also made them even more entertaining and memorable,
Florence Knapp’s debut novel, The Names, grips from the outset. The book opens in the midst of a thunderstorm and presents a weighty dilemma: “tomorrow—if morning comes, if the storm stops raging—Cora will register the name of her son. Or perhaps, and this is her real concern, she’ll formalize who he will become.” What name
Rihanna is work, work, work, work, working the 2025 Met Gala red carpet. Hours after revealing she’s pregnant with baby No. 3, the “Diamonds” singer made a show-stopping entrance at the May 5 event, arriving to the steps of the New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Arts in black gown that showed off her baby
“I feel like my last relationship was on display from day one,” she told E! News in October. “If I do meet someone, I’m going to take my time and get to know them initially before I get to be on center street with the person, because I feel like it’s hard to get to
Global Sports Company PUMA and Scuderia Ferrari HP are set to make waves during Miami GP week with the exclusive release of the first-ever White PUMA for Scuderia Ferrari HP Miami Limited Edition. This unique, limited-edition collection draws inspiration from the clean accent color of the seasonal 2025 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 car livery (especially
Following the 2024 event, celebrities once again descended on New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala. The fundraiser’s dress code this year was “Tailored for You,” encouraging guests to pursue tailoring and menswear in their outfits on the carpet. The 2025 Costume Institute Benefit celebrates the Costume Institute’s new exhibition “Superfine:
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Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal are stepping into a moving queer love story in The History of Sound, and new stills from the film are already sending fans into a frenzy. Released exclusively by Vanity Fair, the newly revealed images show the two