Sports Four Billboards Get you a person who loves you like Alexis Ohanian loves Serena Williams. After I saw Alexis’s four billboards welcoming Serena back to tennis after giving birth, I turned to my partner and said, “What have you done for me LATELY?” It’s not that I want a billboard By Kathleen • Feb 28, 2018 10:58 am
Amazingness Benedict Cumberbatch dances I have so many questions. The first one is why was Benedict Cumberbatch hosting the Laureus World Sports Awards in Monte-Carlo yesterday? Apparently, this is his third year in a row. OK. Why though? My second and most important question is WHO decided it was a good idea to do By Kathleen • Feb 28, 2018 10:11 am
Quiveration Chris Pine, still fine I get to see A Wrinkle in Time today. I GET TO SEE A WRINKLE IN TIME TODAY. Chris Pine is not going to be the most memorable part of A Wrinkle in Time. Like in Wonder Woman, he is probably going to be about the seventh best thing about By Kathleen • Feb 27, 2018 03:12 pm
TV Updates Kelly Clarkson saves The Voice I like The Voice. I’ve watched almost every season. Somewhere, Sarah is making fun of me right now for all the sh-tty TV I watch. For the most part, The Voice is not sh-tty TV. Even though the show has yet to discover a star artist, for entertainment’s By Kathleen • Feb 27, 2018 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s new ABP role Every actor in Black Panther (except for maybe living legends Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker) can look at their careers in two parts: BBP and ABP, as in Before Black Panther and After Black Panther. Sure, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya and my man Michael B. By Kathleen • Feb 23, 2018 01:24 pm
TV Updates Tiff and O About 20 minutes after I watched the PURE JOY that is Tiffany Haddish meeting Oprah Winfrey for the first time, I saw this tweet from my favourite ex-Grantland writer, Rembert Browne. i'd watch 100 episodes of the show "Oprah Surprises Famous Black People Who Never Thought They& By Kathleen • Feb 23, 2018 11:31 am
Ava DuVernay SADE!!!!! It feels like the pop culture gods are showering gifts upon us to make up for A) ignoring people of colour for years and B) to give us relief from the equals parts horrific and demoralizing 24-hour news cycle. Sade is here to save us. SADE!!! What a time. Ava By Kathleen • Feb 22, 2018 03:13 pm
Selena Gomez Jelena in Jamaica Lainey has been trying to convince me and our site manager, Emily, to get on board with Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s rekindled romance since they were spotted hanging out again in October. Lainey’s been all about that same old Jelena love since day one but this time By Kathleen • Feb 22, 2018 01:43 pm
Timothee Chalamet Timothée’s “personal god” Kid Cudi may be the reason we have Timothée Chalamet. Yes, that is just as random as it sounds. In a new interview with GQ, Timothée details how the rapper/actor saved his career at a point when he almost quit. At a critical juncture when the walls were closing By Kathleen • Feb 22, 2018 11:02 am
Hook Ups Lorde and Jack Antonoff in Auckland In January, when Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff broke up, I mentioned that my friend casually predicted that he’d move on with Lorde. In my previous post, I chose to keep my friend anonymous. She works in media too so I didn’t think she’d want her name By Kathleen • Feb 22, 2018 09:11 am
Rihanna Rihanna turns 30 Rihanna celebrated her 30th birthday yesterday. Rihanna has accomplished more by 30 than most of us will in our entire lives. No disrespect. She’s a 9-time Grammy award winner, one of the best-selling artists of all time and the boss of a beauty empire. BY 30. We’re basically By Kathleen • Feb 21, 2018 04:18 pm
Relationship Assumption Zomdaya resurfaces I’m sticking with Zomdaya as the couple name for Zendaya and Tom Holland. The rest of you (Sarah) are wrong. Say something. The last time I wrote about Zomdaya, they were spending U.S. Thanksgiving together, refueling rumours that they’re more than friends but I wasn’t exactly By Kathleen • Feb 21, 2018 11:03 am
Girl Sh-t Jennifer Lawrence enters the narrative Jennifer Lawrence has always been good for a one-liner. She’s quick-witted and unfiltered. Those two things have always been a part of a Jennifer Lawrence press tour. So, when J.Law started promoting Red Sparrow, I knew we’d be in for a few headline-grabbing cracks. Let’s start By Kathleen • Feb 19, 2018 10:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Audacity of Black Panther When I was three, my big brother Sam smacked me on the head with a mini model car. He was five and frustrated that I kept stealing his toys. The incident left a small but permanent scar in the middle of my forehead. Throughout my childhood and into my early By Kathleen • Feb 19, 2018 08:13 am
Equality Issues Gabrielle Union’s voice Gabrielle Union is more than her PTSD. She is so much more than what happened to her. She knows this. And yet she continues to speak about her trauma openly and often. In every feature on Gabrielle Union, the words “sexual assault” are used. With every interview, she is taking By Kathleen • Feb 16, 2018 02:15 pm
Henry Windsor When Harry Met Meghan That’s not the title of Lifetime’s movie about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle but it should be. Instead, they went with Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance. BORING. The good news is that the first photos from the Vancouver set of the TV movie are not boring at By Kathleen • Feb 15, 2018 11:27 am