I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: I am a firmly rooted earth sign. (Capricorn sun, Virgo rising, if you were wondering.) But what does that mean exactly for the people in my life—as well as all others who come in contact with Capricorns, Virgos, and Tauruses? “Earth signs are the practical planners […]
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Donald Glover’s Amazon Studio project Swarm released all its episodes this week on Amazon Prime. Co-created with Atlanta writer Janine Nabers, Swarm is a horror-thriller series that stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman obsessed with a pop star named Ni’Jah. Dre’s own life is full of disconnect and abandonment, and she seems to […]
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Beauty and grooming rituals have long been a part of the Black experience. Historically, everything from hairstyling to body art has represented where we come from and to which community we belonged. But then we fast forward to the mid to late 20th century, when many of our beauty choices—while still widely culturally driven—were heavily […]
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Charles Foster Kane complained that he couldn’t buy a bag of peanuts without someone writing a song about him; Quentin Tarantino lives with a less adulatory version of this attention-curse, unable to sneeze without inciting at least twenty-four hours of impassioned discourse complete with backlashes, backlash-to-backlashes, and perhaps a couple of frontlashes. When you’re one […]
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At only 16 years old, musical artist Harry Styles skyrocketed to fame as a member of the massively popular boy band One Direction. In 2010, Styles initially auditioned as a solo artist for The X Factor. He was eliminated, then brought back to form the band. He’s now back to being a solo artist and […]
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Two days after the Oscars, Law Roach used his platform to make a big—and totally unexpected—announcement: he’s retiring. In a candid and cryptic Instagram post, the 44-year-old celebrity stylist wrote, “My cup is empty…the politics, the lies, and false narratives finally got me! You win…I’m out.” People were shocked, airing their protestations and expressing mass […]
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Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson’s on-off romance may not be off forever, after all—at least not if Thompson has his way. Us Weekly reports that despite Thompson cheating on Kardashian multiple times, including fathering a child with someone else while he was secretly engaged to her, the basketball player is still romantically pursuing her. A […]
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Raine Allen-Miller’s love letter to Peckham is a welcome addition to the British rom-com canon, with standout performances from Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson. The South London locales of Peckham and Brixton form the backdrop for this classical, yet refreshingly vibrant tale of opposites attracting in Raine Allen-Miller’s directorial debut, Rye Lane. Two young Londoners […]
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The big headline from last night’s Academy Awards would have to trumpet the sweeping success of Everything Everywhere All at Once, which rode a groundswell of support to a whopping seven statuettes for the unlikely indie production. So great was the tide of favour that it lifted all related boats, including that of Jamie Lee […]
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Rihanna wore three different designer outfits at the Oscars: her leather and sheer Alaïa dress on the red carpet, her Maison Margiela bra and pants during her performance, and her green Bottega Veneta bustier and skirt at the ceremony. But for one of the night’s most exclusive after-parties, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s bash, Rihanna switched into […]
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