When Faye Heron flies from L.A. to her alma mater in New York’s Finger Lakes region, it’s a homecoming of the saddest kind: the funeral for her beloved film professor and mentor, Patrick Toner (PT for short). It’s been 12 years since Faye left New York and her then-boyfriend, Henry Spalding, to pursue a career
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We’re seeing stars, stripes, and major July 4th savings! You can refresh your summer beauty routine, warm weather wardrobe, and even a few pieces around your home with the insanely good July 4th sales that are already in full swing, from some of our favorite brands like Abercrombie, Old Navy, Kate Spade, Ulta and more.
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Here’s a secret the retail industry doesn’t want you to figure out: almost nothing in menswear is ever sold at full price. Not really. The “MSRP” on that $400 sport coat is a fiction designed to make the eventual $180 sale feel like a win. Once you understand the retail calendar, you stop paying retail.
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Agriculture have announced a stateside trek. In the fall, the black metal band will tour their second album, 2025’s The Spiritual Sound, primarily on the West Coast, but will travel to the Midwest to play a short run of shows in November. Throughout the month-long sprint, the Los Angeles quartet will be joined by Brooklyn
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For a show that has spent five decades defining American comedy, Saturday Night Live has also quietly built one of television’s strangest queer archives. Sometimes that meant obvious camp. Sometimes it looked like subtext pushed to the point of absurdity. And increasingly in recent years, it’s meant openly queer writers and performers creating sketches that
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We’re halfway through 2026, which means we’re halfway through the 2026 Read Harder Challenge! Can you believe it? I thought this was a great time to check in: how much progress have you made so far? Which tasks are giving you trouble? What’s your favorite book you’ve read for the challenge so far? I’ve put
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Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake Share Rare Family Photos with Sons in Father’s Day Tributes Jessica Biel is rockin’ that body. The Better Sister actress showed off her latest workout routine, which featured countless core and strength moves throughout a 45-minute session. “Full-body, start to finish,” Biel captioned a June 28 video posted to Instagram in collaboration
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LGBTQ+ consumers spend about $1.4 trillion in the U.S. annually and $3.9 trillion globally, but about 70% are spending their money with businesses that they see supporting the community — and an almost equal amount are avoiding companies they see as reducing their inclusion commitments — according to a new report released on Tuesday by
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In early 2022, journalist Carlos Barragan arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, with an unusual goal: to find his mother’s scammer. Barragan’s mother, like countless others, fell for an online romance scheme, where an “American soldier” named “Brian” almost convinced her to send him money so he could ship her bars of gold. Online money-making schemes have
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Sportswoman of the Year Award  A’ja Wilson — Basketball Angel Reese — Basketball Claressa Shields — Boxing Coco Gauff — Tennis Flau’jae Johnson — Basketball Gabby Thomas — Track & Field Jordan Chiles — Gymnastics Naomi Osaka — Tennis Sha’Carri Richardson — Track & Field   Sportsman of the Year Award Aaron Judge — Baseball
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After teasing a studio collaboration together several months ago, Steve Lacy has finally shared the new song he recorded with SZA. “Is It Cool?” is a back-and-forth track between the two singers where they delve into their struggles with romance and tendencies to self-sabotage. Give it a listen below. SZA first spoke of the existence
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Broadway is bringing back one of Richard Greenberg’s most celebrated plays with an impressive trio of leading actors. Superman star David Corenswet, Heated Rivalry actor François Arnaud and The Handmaid’s Tale standout Yvonne Strahovski will headline a new production of Three Days of Rain, marking the play’s first Broadway revival in more than two decades.
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Barnes & Noble’s biggest books of fall, a touching library moment from the Obama Presidential Center’s opening ceremony, essential American literature, and more. 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 Biggest Books of
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He was a champion junior skier, but at 13 he left home to train at the Piatti Tennis Centre in Bordighera, hundreds of miles away. “The truth is, as soon as I got there, I started crying,” Sinner told Vanity Fair Italia in 2024 (as translated into English). “I called [my parents] after two hours,
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To photographer Mel Porter, one of the clearest examples of the Trump administration’s antipathy for the LGBTQ+ community isn’t what it’s done, but what it has stopped doing. “I actually do work for the Veterans Hospital in Buffalo,” Porter said. “And one of the things that’s been noticeable is, the last two years, we haven’t
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Bridesmaids is one of the best movies of the 2010s, thanks to its fantastic women-led cast and it’s absolutly hilarious story. It also features so many outlandish scenarios that make it unforgettable, like the infamous gross-out bridal shopping scene, an aggressive game of tennis, and a Parisian bridal shower gone wrong. However, there was one
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Irish author and journalist Sally Hayden became a foreign correspondent to make people care about what was happening in the world, and over the following decade, the world gave her plenty of opportunity to fulfill her mission. In media outlets like the New York Times, the Irish Times, CNN International and the BBC, Hayden covered
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