TV Updates The Oscars: Five Updates for the Five Day Countdown The Oscars are happening on Sunday, finally. With five days to go, updates are happening one on top of another. The biggest one being that Karla Sofía Gascón will be there, with the support of Netflix. If for whatever reason you need a refresher about the Karla chaos, please go By Lainey • Feb 25, 2025 12:13 pm
Met Gala 2024 The Fairytale Crowd Like I said before, the broadness of the Met Gala theme stymied many attendees. Some played with the concepts of gardens/flowers or time, others leaned into the fairytale aspect of the “Sleeping Beauties” museum exhibit. It made for a muddled presentation in where there was little consistency on the By Sarah • May 07, 2024 09:48 am
Gorgessity Janet steps out for Thom Browne If you visit this site often, you might be familiar with my affinity for Thom Browne. Thom Browne is my whole style lane. So the Thom Browne show, for me, is the New York Fashion Week presentation that I look forward to the most. And look who Thom Browne was By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 11:13 am
Oscars 2022 Tropical Fruit Oscar Colours Beyoncé started it, of course. Obviously there’s much more discourse on that elsewhere, and obviously it’s not like anyone knew that ‘tennis ball’ was going to be the colour of the night. But leave it to this, the absolute hands-down weirdest Oscars ever to be the riot of By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 09:56 am
Queen Latifah Intro for June 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, Ladies First! The first lady of hip-hop, Queen Latifah, was presented the Lifetime Achievement at the BET Awards last night with MC Lyte, Lil’ Kim, Monie Love, and Rhapsody taking the stage in tribute while Latifah looked on and grooved to their performance. She was honoured and she By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 09:29 am
Storm Reid Black Girls Rock One of the most underrated red carpets of the year is the BET Black Girls Rock! red carpet. Every year, I forget it’s happening and every year, it delivers some of my favourite looks. This year’s honourees included Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Lena Waithe, Amandla Stenberg, #MeToo By Kathleen • Aug 28, 2018 11:17 am
Quiveration Essence Fest highlights Queen Latifah doesn’t get the shine that she deserves in hip-hop history. I wrote about this unfortunate fact when she was honoured by VH1 in 2016. I also don’t think Queen Latifah gets the respect she deserves for the feminist work she was putting out before it became By Kathleen • Jul 09, 2018 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “Use your lady mouth” Yesterday at CinemaCon, the cast of Girls Trip made an appearance to talk about the film and introduce new footage. If you don’t know about Girls Trip, it’s the female-led raunchy comedy starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish. In the post-Bridesmaids era, “female-led By Kathleen • Mar 30, 2017 04:01 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Queen Latifah’s sparkles I don’t think we pay enough attention to how consistently Latifah brings it on a red carpet. This is a spectacular white dress. It’s well-tailored. I like the tricked out neck and shoulder detail. And if I had to change anything, I think I would have gone with By Lainey • Oct 25, 2016 10:41 am
Music The Queens of Hip Hop “Who you calling a bitch?” This line. It’s one of my favourite hip-hop lines of all time. With it, Queen Latifah cemented herself in hip-hop history. She was not a bitch or a ho. She was just the Queen. Last night, VH1 resurrected their Hip-Hop Honours special from a By Kathleen • Jul 12, 2016 01:35 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Queen Latifah’s white jumpsuit What a greeeeaaat jumpsuit. Fits real nice around the ass and sits at the right point on the waist. The material hangs well around the chest with just enough room but not too much and the neckline shows off those strong arms. Also…pockets! By Lainey • Apr 11, 2016 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Garner in Miracles from Heaven Let’s start by acknowledging that I am a cynical asshole and not at all this movie’s target audience. Miracles from Heaven was not made for me but I have to review it anyway, and I do so knowing full well that what I identify as problems won’t By Sarah • Mar 16, 2016 12:46 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Latifah’s long top I want this top. I want those glasses. Seriously, how is it that Queen Latifah has looked the same for over 20 years? By Lainey • Feb 12, 2016 10:58 am
SAG Awards 2016 Queen Latifah is in shock Queen Latifah won a SAG Award for her work in Bessie. And it doesn’t seem like she was expecting it, because, as she said, “I am in shock”. I had to rewind her speech a few times though to unpack what she said, very quickly, afterwards, because it stayed By Lainey • Feb 01, 2016 08:21 am
TV Updates The Wiz Live! “…Hello, Dorothy!” I mean, come on. Did you see that star? That alleged ‘rookie’, Shanice Williams? Did you see her kill this show, without breaking a sweat? What a blast that was to watch. It’s not just people being nice (when have you ever heard of people being nice By Duana • Dec 04, 2015 11:13 am
TV Updates The Hero Of Her Own Story You’ve heard me rattle on all year about these televised musicals. The Wiz airs Thursday night on NBC, and it is going to be far better than the live musicals of the previous years, which is good for musical lovers but bad for live-tweeters. This article from the Hollywood By Duana • Dec 01, 2015 12:53 pm
