Adele Sparked Her Own Marriage Rumors After Calling Rich Paul Her ‘Husband’ at Vegas Show

Adele may have dropped a bombshell with just one word at her Las Vegas residency on Saturday. Entertainment Tonight reported that during a portion of the show where Adele took audience questions, one attendee asked her if she could marry her. Adele responded, “You can’t marry me, I’m straight, my love. And my husband’s here […]

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How One Breast Cancer Survivor Is Using NYFW to Raise Donations—and Awareness

It’s a morning like any other on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At the crammed outdoor cafés, boozy brunch cocktails slosh onto the sidewalk, clutched by young women with nail art and crop tops who seem to be in a perpetual gossip download. As whispers of Timothée Chalamet sightings and Hinge ghosts creep down […]

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In Bridge, Lauren Beukes Explores All the Roads Not Taken

Lauren Beukes is used to living multiple lives. Born in Johannesburg, she’s since worked out of Cape Town, New York, Chicago, and (currently) London. She’s been a journalist, a scriptwriter, a documentarian, and—most famously—an award-winning novelist with a penchant for darkly speculative tales of strange science and distorted cities. In her latest novel, Beukes is […]

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Painkiller‘s West Duchovny Wanted to Do Shannon Schaeffer Justice, Even If She Wasn’t Real

In Painkiller, Netflix’s new opioid epidemic drama, West Duchovny isn’t portraying a real person. But in a sense, she is. Her role of Shannon Schaeffer, an eager young sales rep for Purdue Pharma, is fictionalized but based on the real experiences of representatives who sold OxyContin to doctors. What’s also real is the harm they […]

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Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Bad Idea, Right?’ Lyrics Are All About Hooking Up With an Ex-Boyfriend

Olivia Rodrigo dropped the second single from her album Guts, “Bad Idea, Right?,” and its lyrics don’t play subtle: The song is about Rodrigo justifying hooking up with an ex-boyfriend. Which ex, however, is less clear. While Rodrigo has been romantically linked to Joshua Bassett, Zack Bia (the likely subject of her first Guts single […]

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R. Eric Thomas Made a Home for Himself. It’s Not His Fault the Frogs Took Over.

R. Eric Thomas is here now. Only, he’s still sussing out what “here” means. No one can fault him: Our modern understanding of “here,” in this pandemic-hardened, hyper-digital, increasingly isolated era, leans heavily on the nebulous end of the abstraction spectrum. After the success of his bestseller Here For It, the humor writer (and former […]

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Ciara Made Gap x LoveShackFancy the Coolest Collaboration of the Summer

Like countless moms at the start of summer vacation, Ciara corralled her kids into the car in search of a fun outdoor activity. The difference is that when you’re a megastar, you don’t always run for the nearest swing set—instead, your playground is a photo shoot for Gap. “You know that saying, ‘You plan and […]

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