The year is 1973, and it’s a strange time to be living in America. The country is on the precipice of a huge cultural shift, in part owing to the tumultuous events of the previous decade; one fraught with wars, political assassinations and a landmark Civil Rights movement. In the town of New Canaan, Connecticut, […]
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By Melissa Romualdi. Published: 3 hours ago Friday marked a big win for artists in California. The state Governor Gavin Newsom signed The Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act, a new law that will restrict California courts from using rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases. The landmark lesiglastion comes after the Calif. Senate and Assembly unanimously […]
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In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month we spoke with Jennifer Hyman, CEO and co-founder of Rent the Runway, who first had the idea for the high-end clothing rental service when she was 26 years […]
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A dialogue with Don Hertzfeldt, the humble, perspicacious and very funny director of one of the film masterpieces of the 21st century. When you’re a film critic, people always ask, “What is your favourite film?”, and ever since 2013 I answer very quickly and easily: Don Hertzfeldt’s It’s Such A Beautiful Day. There are not […]
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This searingly intense character study sees a woman questioning her cosy bourgeois lifestyle in Pinochet’s Chile. As the title of Manuela Martelli’s directorial debut suggests, the year is 1976, and Chile is suffocating under the nightmare that is Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Enveloped in the ennui of upper-middle class life, Carmen’s (Aline Kuppenheim) concerns would not […]
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By Paige Gawley, ETOnline.com. Published: 3 hours ago Last updated: 3 hours ago Rachel Recchia and Tino Franco‘s engagement was short-lived. After the pair’s engagement was shown on Tuesday night’s season finale of “The Bachelorette”, footage filmed during a so-called happy couple weekend revealed how things ultimately came to an end. The pair’s romance goes all the way […]
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By Brent Furdyk. Published: 5 hours ago Last updated: 5 hours ago DeMario Jackson, who was a contestant on both “The Bachelorette” and “Bachelor in Paradise”, is being sued by two different women who claim that he sexually assaulted them. According to court documents obtained by TMZ, the women — both filing under the pseudonym Jane […]
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Emily Carey is leaving. Unless you’re well-practiced in the particular art of spoiler-dodging online, you knew this was coming. HBO has been forthcoming about very little when it comes to their hit Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, but they’ve been transparent about this: After episode 5, the actresses portraying Rhaenyra Targaryen […]
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Kathryn Wirsing In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month we spoke with Aya Kanai, whose passion for visual art has taken her from the world of puppet theater to high-rise offices at some of the […]
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In 1970, J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK. This anti-novel has had a complicated publication history: all 15 of the (linked) stories that make up its chapters had already been published separately over the previous four years; in America, Doubleday & Company pulled their scheduled 1970 publication […]
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