Month: May 2026

Nothing sucks when Scooter Braun and Sydney Sweeney link up.  The music exec documented his undercover date night with the Everything Sucks! star, filming the pair as they took a self-led tour through New York City.  As Scooter captioned a May 31 Instagram video of their late-night adventure, “When you’re in bed at 11pm and your girl says ‘I’ve never been to Times
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Purely plant-based performance material BioFleax, has entered the global fashion stage through the Stella McCartney H&M Spring 2026 collection, appearing in a snakeskin-print bomber jacket released as part of the collaboration. More than 20 years after the first Stella McCartney H&M collaboration, the partnership returns at a moment when lower-impact design, material innovation, supply chain
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It’s hard to overstate the contributions DMX, who died in 2021 at 50, made to New York hip-hop history during his lifetime. This week, the city recognized that impact by naming the corner of School Street and Brooke Street in Yonkers, where the MC was born and raised, “Earl DMX Simmons Way.” Per the Yonkers
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. The New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2026 So Far The publication we keep in stacks around our homes to let everyone know how smart we are has
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Kyra Green & Cashel Barnett: Split The delivered one of the U.S. version’s most unexpected couplings, with Kyra choosing to leave the show to see if she still had a shot with Cashel after sending him home…only to find out he’d already returned. But, unfortunately, the musically inclined couple split in October 2019. By the
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You’ve heard the saying, “Don’t judge a man by his facial piercings?” Probably not – because I just made it up. 🙂 However – it’s not far from the truth. We are constantly engaged in the act of judging people by outward symbols – clothes, appearance, visible tattoos and facial piercings. Do facial piercings change how
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Big Thief have debuted a trio of new songs, “Carry,” “Forgive the Dream,” and “Space and Time.” They introduced the tracks to the world in an appropriately dreamy fashion: during an acoustic performance on Belgium’s Radio 1, recorded in a sun-drenched field between the Irish cities of Dublin and Limerick. Watch the set below. During
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Blood donations in England are way up, as the National Health Service benefits from eligibility changes that have brought more gay and bisexual men to their local donation sites. A recent survey found that 7.5% of male blood donors now report that they’re bisexual, gay, pansexual, queer, bicurious, or sexually fluid, SceneMag reports. That number
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In Robin Stevenson’s sensitive, engrossing novel The Book of Jupiter, readers see into the life of a child deeply imbedded in the control and perils of a cult community. The stars have never been so limitless, yet also limited, for 13-year-old Ara, who has grown up cloistered in a small rural homestead known as Jupiter
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Joanna Newsom’s hometown of Nevada City has declared May 27 “Joanna Newsom Day.” On Wednesday, a City Council meeting was held at Nevada City’s City Hall where mayor Adam Kline, a longtime friend and early supporter of Newsom (who also plays in the band Golden Shoulders), made the announcement. He presented her with the honor,
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $2.99 Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler Get This Deal $2.99 Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami Get This Deal $2.99 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh Get This Deal $2.99 Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer Get This Deal $1.99 Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews Get This Deal
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Sometimes it can be hard to catch a film’s prevailing message. But anyone who dove deep into the premise of 2003’s Finding Nemo—Disney’s animated comedy-drama about a sweet titular clownfish (voiced by future Weeds star Alexander Gould) who gets separated from his overprotective father Marlin (Albert Brooks)—could easily snag the overarching theme.  As Marlin’s new
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Stephenie Meyer Reveals She Has More ‘Twilight’ Books Outlined—But There’s a Catch Here’s one big little truth: There are a lot of must reads making their way to bookstores this summer. Chief among them, Big Little Truth (out August 25), which not only marks Liane Moriarty’s first sequel but also checks back in with Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie a decade
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Lee announces Kacey Lee, its first celebrity collaboration designed with eight-time Grammy Award winner Kacey Musgraves exclusively for Walmart. Named after Musgraves’ first and middle names, Kacey Lee brings together Lee’s heritage denim and Musgraves’ classic style for an expansive collection across multiple product categories. In addition to men’s and women’s denim bottoms and tops,
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A British evangelical Christian man who sued the U.K. government for “religious discrimination” after his government employer refused to accommodate his discomfort of LGBTQ+ symbols had his lawsuit dismissed by a tribunal, according to a Daily Mail article published yesterday. Mark Jennings accepted a job with U.K. Department for Work and Pensions in June 2024,
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Not every crime is solved by a grade A detective or a hotshot sleuth, and in this case, an eclectic and rompy friend group bestows upon themselves the duty to solve the messiest of offences. Nicole is a Black lesbian junior lawyer with big dreams and near-zero social life; Brandon is a gay Jewish hotelier
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