Golden Globes 2018 Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron: Globes showmen Depending on where you are at any given moment of the internet during a live awards show, you can find whatever reaction you want. You want outrage? No prob. You want a celebration? Sure. What I discovered during the Golden Globes last night is that you can also find people By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 11:19 am
Golden Globes 2018 Emma Stone: Globes’ Safest Emma Stone was the defending champ. Last year she won Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for La La Land. This year, she lost to Saoirse Ronan and presented with Shirley MacLaine. I had to Google both of those things. I forgot which category she was in and I By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 11:06 am
Golden Globes 2018 The Globes needed more Mary J. Blige After a show like this, there’s always one person I wish we got to see more of. After the Globes, that person is Mary J. Blige. I didn’t see her interviewed on the red carpet. I was flipping between E! and NBC and I think I caught a By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 10:10 am
Golden Globes 2018 Golden Globes: Issa Rae’s table The obvious best table at the Globes was the Oprah/ Gayle/ Stedman/ Ava/ Pauletta/ Denzel/ Viola/ Julius table but the one I wanted to be at most was Issa Rae’s. You may have missed it but for a glorious split second, we got to see Issa Rae and Zoe By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 09:40 am
Golden Globes 2018 Laura Dern: Globes Best Everything I don’t want to bring up Baron Davis in this post which is definitively about Laura Dern but we can’t talk about Laura Dern without talking about Laura Dern’s 2017, which, you know, notably ended with those pictures of her and Baron Davis. Professionally, she had an By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 07:58 am
Golden Globes 2018 Viola Davis & Helen Mirren: Globes Best Duo Viola Davis and Helen Mirren hadn’t even started reading the teleprompter yet and Twitter was already writing their buddy cop comedy. Viola and Helen together is a pairing I didn’t expect but in hindsight, it’s perfect. They’re both legends. They both can give a singular look By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 06:57 am
Golden Globes 2018 Kelly Clarkson’s fun night at the Globes There were fears that the tone of the Golden Globes would be somber this year. In fact, Ryan Seacrest kept implying over and over that guests would have a hard timing having fun inside the show during his red carpet broadcast like you can’t have fun while also attempting By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 06:29 am
Golden Globes 2018 Sterling K. Brown reclaims his time at the Globes Remember how the Emmys did Sterling K. Brown? I’m still shaking a clenched fist in the sky at no one in particular whispering “how dare they” because of how the Emmys wronged Sterling K. Brown last year. To recap, SKB was played off after a criminally short amount of By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 03:42 am
Music Black Panther: The Album Every year is the same. I make resolutions. I break them. As soon as all the balls have dropped and the midnight kisses are over, I swear I will wake up earlier, eat better, live better and generally become a better human being but by day 4 or 5 of By Kathleen • Jan 05, 2018 10:52 am
Best of 2017 – Blue Ivy, the prodigy Is there still time to submit a word of the year? My word of the year is Boomshakalaka. This word existed before Blue Ivy, first of her name, of House Knowles-Carter, but it will now forever belong to Blue after she used it in her famous freestyle. Blue’s freestyle By Kathleen • Dec 29, 2017 11:47 am
Music Katy Perry’s 2017 Katy Perry started 2017 with promise. She was selling the promise of evolution, of a star who had evolved from bubblegum teen dreams to “purposeful pop.” The promise was intriguing. Could Katy Perry actually deliver powerful political statements combined with her signature mainstream appeal? Could she be pop’s antidote By Kathleen • Dec 28, 2017 11:10 am
Music SZA and Solange save the day My brain is mush. It’s this time of year. All I want to do is sleep, watch sh-tty Chistmas rom-coms and listen to The Preacher’s Wife soundtrack. It’s taking me twice as long to do anything that involves pants. If you’re at work today like I By Kathleen • Dec 22, 2017 01:14 pm
Cardi B Cardi B’s “genuine-tivity” One of my favourite celebrity profiles of the year was Allison P. Davis’s piece for New York Magazine on Cardi B. It delightfully captures Cardi’s rags-to-riches come-up while also giving a delicious glimpse into the whimsical mind of rap’s brightest breakout star. If you haven’t read By Kathleen • Dec 22, 2017 11:27 am
Hook Ups Janet and Jermaine Maria mentioned yesterday that Janet Jackson and Jermain Dupri may be back together. Whenever I think of Janet and Jermaine (not to be confused with her brother Jermaine), I think of Chris Rock’s opening monologue of the 2003 MMVAs. It’s one of my favourite Chris Rock bits, ever. By Kathleen • Dec 21, 2017 04:03 pm
Music Kathleen’s Top 5 Albums of 2017 If 2017 felt confusing, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and generally emotionally sporadic on your timelines, that same perplexity was reflected in the music it produced. I’m not mad at the art 2017 delivered but I don’t think I was expecting most of it. Aside from two hip-hop legends By Kathleen • Dec 20, 2017 11:13 am
Marshall Mathers Eminem uses dating apps The fact that Eminem admitted to using dating apps would probably make headlines on its own but it’s the specific dating apps he mentioned that have turned his quotes into clickbait. EMINEM USES GRINDR! Those are the headlines. You’re clicking on that, right? Tell me you wouldn’t By Kathleen • Dec 20, 2017 10:03 am
