Style GQ’s Men of the “Year” Another week closer to the end of the year—I am TELLING you, it’s the SUN’S FAULT—another “of the year” red carpet. This time, it’s GQ’s Men of the Year (men of the “year”, I dispute this passage of time), which also includes some women. By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 10:16 am
Halle Bailey Halle Bailey's restraining order CW for intimate partner violence Halle Bailey is seeking sole custody of Halo, her 16-month-old son after being granted a temporary restraining order against Halo’s father DDG earlier this week. The temporary restraining order means she has sole physical and legal custody of Halo until at least June 4. By Stephanie • May 15, 2025 11:34 am
Gorgessity Zendaya! What did I just say! I am begging Zendaya to stay inside and she can’t stop, won’t stop going outside. Today, or rather last night, it was the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles. Zendaya went outside AGAIN for it, turning up in jeans, a corset, a metal choker, and By Sarah • Mar 08, 2024 09:48 am
Style Serena, Latto, Halle, and Willow: The Return of Off-White Off-White was rebranded in 2012 by fashion maverick Virgil Abloh and, as we saw, quickly became one of the most popular labels in the industry. Both Off-White and Louis Vuitton menswear flourished under Abloh’s leadership – his leadership and his vision disrupted the fashion industry from the runway to the By Lainey • Feb 29, 2024 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Beyoncé Way RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé opens this Friday. The concert film’s premiere was held over the weekend in Beverly Hills, drawing a lot of important Black artists and creative industry talent despite the long holiday weekend in the US. Such is the power Beyoncé—she becomes the holiday. This By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 09:40 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Halle Bailey and the Glamour Women The Glamour Women of the Year Awards were last night in London, bringing a lot of glamorous women out for the event. The headliner is probably Halle Bailey, who won “game changer of the year” looking amazing in this velvet mini-dress and showed up with her boyfriend, DDG. Halle has By Sarah • Oct 18, 2023 10:30 am
Douchebags Halle should also decenter her man Halle Bailey’s boyfriend and rapper, DDG, recently released a new song, "Famous", and the lyrics reveal his discomfort with his girlfriend’s celebrity lifestyle. The song features a series of lines that indicate he’s not happy with Halle’s interactions with Jonah Hauer-King, who stars alongside By Stephanie • Jul 17, 2023 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid, Disney’s latest live-action reboot of a classic animated film, begins with a quote from Hans Christian Andersen about suffering. It really sets the stage for what comes next. The Little Mermaid, in this incarnation written by David Magee and directed by Rob Marshall, is neither the By Sarah • May 26, 2023 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey’s other musical The Little Mermaid comes out at the end of the week, but before we talk about that, let’s take a second to talk about Halle Bailey’s OTHER musical this year, a new adaptation of The Color Purple. It’s the latest in the long adaptation chain of Alice By Sarah • May 23, 2023 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Little Mermaid highlights poor Caribbean representation The Little Mermaid is making quite the splash following the world premiere in Hollywood, which Sarah wrote about here. For the most part, Black people across the globe have been ecstatic to finally have a Black Ariel. But the excitement came to a bit of a halt, replaced instead with By Stephanie • May 12, 2023 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Under the sea with MONSTERS The world premiere of The Little Mermaid (live action redux) was last night in Los Angeles. Everyone turned up: Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay—grown up!—Daveed Diggs, who voices Sebastian in the film, and Viscountess Bridgerton herself, Simone Ashley, who plays one of Ariel’s By Sarah • May 09, 2023 09:57 am
Oscars 2023 The Little Mermaid’s janky commercial Disney is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, as is Warner Bros. (Discovery). Both studios had featurettes during the ceremony marking their milestone years. Really, they were more advertorials, Disney straight up debuted the full trailer for The Little Mermaid, and Warners went with a sizzle reel of mostly recent By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A little Ursula, as a treat When will we get a full trailer for The Little Mermaid? Yesterday, we got another teaser, once again using a clip of Halle Bailey singing “Part of Your World” (aka, the second best Disney song), but this teaser shows us Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, arguably Disney’s best himbo By Sarah • Feb 16, 2023 11:17 am
Gorgessity Halle Bailey is living the dream as Ariel Because Disney decided not QUITE enough was happening in the world this past weekend, they held their fan convention, D23. Friday night during the opening address, the teaser trailer for the long-anticipated live-action The Little Mermaid was released. I have, generally, not been a fan of these live-action remakes (exceptions: By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 11:30 am
Music Understanding Chloe x Halle Halle and Chloe Bailey are on the front cover of the September/October issue of Essence. They dished about Halle’s upcoming starring role (yes, a Black Ariel) in The Little Mermaid, her relationship with YouTube star DDG, and they also discussed what it’s been like coming into their By Stephanie • Aug 23, 2022 11:18 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
