Break Ups Justin Bieber and Sofia Richie Break Up It’s the breakup heard ‘round the world. It’s the breakup that made us scream, “LOVE ISN’T REAL!” Just kidding. It’s the breakup that you scrolled passed on your Twitter timeline and kept scrolling because you didn’t give a f-ck. Justin Bieber and his girlfriend of By Kathleen • Sep 20, 2016 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o covers Vogue There’s a quote in Lupita Nyong’o’s new Vogue feature I love so much I want to tattoo it on my body. Her roots are strong, which is why she flies. Lupita’s roots are in Kenya, where Vogue travelled with the star to shoot their October cover. By Kathleen • Sep 15, 2016 05:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All eyes on Tupac’s biopic The teaser trailer for the upcoming Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me came out on his 45th birthday. The full trailer was released yesterday, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It has been TWENTY years since Pac died. There are full grown adults of drinking age who don’t By Kathleen • Sep 14, 2016 03:09 pm
Top Reads Solange belongs I can remember every racist thing that has ever happened to me. Vividly. Dating back to when I was about five years old, every moment where someone has made me feel lesser than or uncomfortable or out of place because of my race is catalogued in my brain. I can’ By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2016 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Queen of Katwe Queen of Katwe is a Disney movie set in Uganda starring an all black cast and directed by a woman. Its heroine is a girl. There are no white saviours. It’s about an 11 year-old chess prodigy who overcomes impossible circumstances to achieve greatness in a game usually reserved By Kathleen • Sep 12, 2016 05:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nate Parker dodges, Gabrielle Union does the opposite Last week when I wrote about Gabrielle Union’s powerful op-ed for the LA Times where she addressed Nate Parker’s rape allegations, I noted that Gabrielle’s piece made it impossible for the topic to be avoided at TIFF. The cast of The Birth of a Nation did the By Kathleen • Sep 12, 2016 09:01 am
Amazingness When Channing met Simone If this video doesn’t make you smile, you should probably re-evaluate your entire life. Channing Tatum and Olympic gold medalist/all-around badass Simone Biles were on Ellen yesterday adorably fangirling over each other. I can’t decide which one is more adorable: the way Channing says “I’m gonna By Kathleen • Sep 08, 2016 02:12 pm
Cheating Loins Patrick Dempsey, the hero Patrick Dempsey “saved” his marriage! His marriage was a baby in a burning building and he strapped an ‘S’ on his chest, busted in there and rescued that sh-t like the McHero he is. Dempsey, the hero, is on the cover of PEOPLE with the headline “I Had to Change By Kathleen • Sep 08, 2016 09:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gabrielle Union stands up On Friday, the LA Times released an op-ed written by Gabrielle Union. Its headline: 'Birth of a Nation' actress Gabrielle Union: I cannot take Nate Parker rape allegations lightly. When I first saw this headline, I literally gasped out loud. What follows the headline is a stirring, emotional By Kathleen • Sep 06, 2016 11:35 am
Amazingness Into the Matrix of Jaden and Willow It's like Jaden and Willow Smith knew I was having a sh-tty week. It's like they collectively decided to pose for an UNREAL post-apocalyptic photo spread and take part in a new joint feature in Interview magazine as a gift, specifically for me. It's By Kathleen • Aug 31, 2016 12:49 pm
Equality Issues Nate Parker apologizes We aren’t done talking about Nate Parker. In an exclusive in-depth interview with Ebony released over the weekend, Parker addressed, as Ebony calls it, the “growing firestorm surrounding his 1999 rape allegation.” Nate Parker spoke with senior editor Britni Danielle for 25 minutes about consent, toxic masculinity and male By Kathleen • Aug 31, 2016 09:23 am
Maple Leaf Rihanna’s VMAs Side-Kiss & Four Performances Rihanna had already made my weekend before she even hit the VMA stage with this Instagram: When he extra ❤🏆!!! A photo posted by badgalriri (@badgalriri) onAug 26, 2016 at 3:43pm PDT If Drake could be summed up in one word it would be “extra.” I love this so much. By Kathleen • Aug 29, 2016 11:34 am
Music Kanye West, Thought Leader If you didn’t know Teyana Taylor before last night, now you know. I’m starting with Teyana because the VMAs belonged to black women. Kanye’s free-reign speech was Peak Kanye but the video he debuted for Fade was ALL Teyana. Goddamn. A refresher on Teyana’s credentials before By Kathleen • Aug 29, 2016 09:02 am
MTV VMA 2016 Coverage Nick Jonas’s Bacon That’s not a euphemism. Nick Jonas performed a song called Bacon last night at the VMAs. His performance opened with him in a kitchen, holding a fresh plate of bacon. This is how most of my daydreams about Nick also open. The performance went downhill from there. Nick goes By Kathleen • Aug 29, 2016 08:08 am
MTV VMA 2016 Coverage Alessia Cara is cooler than all of us Alessia Cara is 20 years old. She’s 20 years old and she already oozes so much confidence and charisma it’s unfair. It’s unfair to her peers (she’s so real she makes Ariana Grande look like a Madame Tussauds wax figure) and it’s unfair to us By Kathleen • Aug 29, 2016 06:55 am
Music FRANK!!!! He was worth the wait. Was it even a question if he would be worth the wait? Frank Ocean, or FRANK in all caps with multiple exclamation points as I like to call him, finally, FINALLY gifted us with his artistic genius in the form of a visual album, a By Kathleen • Aug 22, 2016 11:40 am
