Month: January 2024

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. On the spring 2024 runways, you famously couldn’t go five feet without running into a ruffle, rosette, or bow. Now, the style is devouring TikTok too, with ribbons adorning everything from TV remotes to chicken tenders. Fashion’s wave of sweetness may
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If the trailers to the new Blumhouse horror flick Night Swim had you screaming “Girl, just open your eyes!” during that nonsensical Marco Polo scene, you’re apparently not the only one. Reviews for the pool-focused supernatural thriller on the 2024 movie schedule — which hits theaters nationwide on Friday, January 5 — are officially out,
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Last year in June, Illinois’ Governor Pritzker signed HB2789. The bill just went into effect January 1, 2024, and promises to cut funding for any public library within the state that attempts to ban books. It comes after 67 banning attempts were made in Illinois in 2022, and the many book ban attempts and successes
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When 44-year-old Sergei Rachmaninoff packed a single bag and boarded a tram in November 1917, he “was aware that I was leaving Moscow, my real home, for a very, very long time . . . perhaps forever.”  Vladimir Lenin toppled Czar Nicholas II earlier that year, hastening a revolution that overturned the social class structure.
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Global box office is estimated to have reached $33.9B for 2023, a 30.5% gain on 2022, according to Gower Street Analytics. While this represents continuing worldwide recovery, the figure remains 15% behind the average of the last three pre-pandemic years (2017-2019). Gower Street also recently estimated that, due in part to this year’s strike-impacted release
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Natalia Grace is feeling vindicated. In the newly released ID docuseries, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks, the Ukrainian orphan—who was adopted by Michael and Kristine Barnett in 2010—detailed her experience with the Barnetts and the subsequent aftermath of her adoption. Though the former couple alleged that Natalia—who has spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a
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News June Carter Cash Documentary Gets New Trailer: Watch June debuts on Paramount+ on January 16 By Nina Corcoran January 3, 2024 Facebook X June Carter Cash in June (Paramount+/YouTube) Facebook X June, an upcoming documentary about the late country star June Carter Cash, has gotten a new trailer. In the clip, viewers are given
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From her commanding performances in everything from The Accused to The Silence of the Lambs to the upcoming True Detective Season 4, Jodie Foster has been a formidable presence onscreen for decades. And it’s not just audiences who are “intimidated” in the company of the Oscar winner, it’s acclaimed directors too. The actress-filmmaker revealed this
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Professional Life: After appearing in all three High School Musical films, Hudgens went on to star in films such as Bandslam, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Spring Breakers, Machete Kills, Second Act and Bad Boys for Life. “High School Musical was a fantastic journey, but it completely derailed me from where I originally saw my career going,” Hudgens told The Guardian in
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A double-holiday week on Broadway – the final week of 2023 – saw a surge in box office, with many shows posting record numbers. Winner of the week? Disney’s The Lion King, which grossed a massive $4,316,629, not only setting a house record at the Minskoff but a Broadway record for the highest single-week gross
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Step inside the happiest place on earth: New York City vintage bridal salon Happy Isles. The newly opened SoHo shop is filled with racks of silky John Galliano slip dresses and dreamy Dior gowns that are threaded with history. As the wedding world continues to trend anti-bride, the soon-to-be-married are seeking out non-traditional wedding looks
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Whenever you look at any list of the best sports movies of all time, you are bound to find one or more films set in and around the world of wrestling. Whether it’s professional wrestling stories like The Wrestler or those like Foxcatcher that focus on the amateur side of things, many movies have focused
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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View
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Comedy and classicism might seem an unusual pairing, but Natalie Haynes has parlayed her two areas of expertise into a career as a bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction, respected scholar and journalist, and popular podcaster (the BBC’s “Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics”). Her new book, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth, is
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The Comme des Garçons (CDG) x Dover Street Market (DSM) Super-Market-Market sample sale in New York City is something like a fashion eclipse: It only comes around once every few years, and when it does, a select group of people completely lose their shit. The last time it happened, it was 2016. Discounts of up
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Whether he was making us laugh so hard our sides started to hurt in comedies like Mrs. Doubtfire and The Birdcage, excelling in more dramatic roles like in Good Will Hunting, and Dead Poets Society, or stealing the show in Aladdin, the late great Robin Williams was never short of a good line. As we
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The rose-colored glasses are off. Nearly two weeks before Rachel Lindsay‘s husband Bryan Abasolo filed for divorce, the former The Bachelorette star shared insight into their four-year marriage, admitting that their work schedules often conflict. “Bryan and I live totally different lives,” Rachel said on Dec. 21 episode of fellow Bachelor Nation star Nick Viall‘s The Viall Files podcast, explaining why
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News Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Moor Mother, Shygirl, Boldy James, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat By Pitchfork January 2, 2024 Facebook X Graphic by Chris Panicker Facebook X The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is one of the biggest releases slated on the 2024 movies calendar, with the two title Titans re-teaming three years after they clashed in Godzilla vs. Kong. However, these gigantic monsters don’t look quite the same as they did in that 2021 movie, with Godzilla now rocking pink spines
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B. Riley analyst Eric Wold, who has stayed generally bullish on the movie theater business despite its recent trials, is now warning investors that the arrival of a “down box office year” has made him “increasingly cautious.” In a note to clients about his 2024 outlook, Wold wrote that he expects the stock performance of
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