Quiveration BTS’s Happy Harvest Moon As mentioned in yesterday’s open and over the years on this site, it’s a holiday week for those of us of East Asian descent. On Thursday October 1 it’s Tet Trung Thu in Vietnamese culture. The Japanese call it Tsukimi. For Chinese people it’s our Mid-Autumn By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 02:31 pm
Music BLACKPINK. “Lovesick Girls.” Friday. Just three more sleeps – two, really – until the release of THE ALBUM, BLACKPINK’s first full-length album. And the group has been counting down to Friday at 1pm KST/midnight ET with teasers and posters. Two days ago they started posting teaser videos for each individual member to get us By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 12:00 pm
Style Gwen goes shopping There was a story that came out a couple of weeks ago with a misleading headline about Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton. According to Us Weekly, “quarantine has stretched them to the limit”, supposedly because they bought a house and moving sucks, even for celebrities. It sounded like a make-a-drama By Lainey • Sep 28, 2020 03:52 pm
Style Oh Look! A Red (Blue) Carpet! There haven’t been a lot of red carpets, or carpets of any colour, over the last six months. And certainly not very many gala style carpets. Last week was the Emmys which would definitely qualify as a gala but, as we saw, it was virtual. Not really much of By Lainey • Sep 25, 2020 11:38 am
Style Zendaya at the Emmys: Two Looks and an Upset! In all of my posts about Zendaya since she was nominated for her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama a couple of months ago, I wrote about her coming into this with nothing to lose – because she was not the favourite. She was such a longshot I By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 01:31 pm
Style Sandra Oh’s Emmy Bomber Sandra Oh is the most-nominated East Asian performer in Emmys history; she has never won an Emmy. Zendaya was the winner in the Lead Drama Actress category this year (more on Zendaya later) and, well, it’s hard to be mad about that and I can’t pretend to be. By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 10:49 am
TV Updates Regina King and the Kingdom of Watchmen I’ve rewritten this sentence about nine times. What I want to say is “Watchmen deserved every Emmy it got and more” but that seems to discount the incredible Unbelievable and Unorthodox and others, and look – we just need to accept the fact that there’s too much that’s By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 08:47 am
Gorgessity Tracee Ellis Ross: Best Emmys Red Carpet There wasn’t really an official red carpet at the Emmys. And you know, for all the moaning about the whole red carpet tediousness that we’ve heard from celebrities in the past, they probably missed it more than we do now that it’s not an available source of By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 08:03 am
Style Lil Nas X’s Fashion Collab This time last year Lil Nas X was riding high off “Old Town Road.” He’d just attended his first ever MTV Video Music Awards with eight nominations, rocking a glimmering silver sequin suit by Christian Cowan. The Prince-inspired look featured a cropped jacket, matching silver cowboy boots, and a By Cody • Sep 18, 2020 12:26 pm
Music BLACKPINK covers ELLE BLACKPINK in your area! And on the cover! It’s not like BLACKPINK and/or its individual members, Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé haven’t covered a magazine before. But this is a major American magazine cover. And it’s not like American magazines are the end all and be By Lainey • Sep 17, 2020 02:12 pm
Style Cate and Tilda: Actors on the Red Carpet As I mentioned on Tuesday when I posted photos of Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton arriving at the Venice Film Festival, it felt like reactivating a dormant muscle. After six months of no red carpets and arrival coverage, there’s some stiffness and pain, even disbelief, and also some cautious By Lainey • Sep 03, 2020 02:03 pm
Music Lady Gaga’s Masked VMAs Typically at an award show, we talk about fashion. And there was a carpet last night at the VMAs but obviously it wasn’t much of a display, not at all really. The only fashion story worth talking about then is probably Lady Gaga. There was a LOT of Lady By Lainey • Aug 31, 2020 11:29 am
TV Updates BLACKPINK x Selena serve ALL the looks Sasha texted me this morning after watching the video for BLACKPINK and Selena Gomez’s new song “Ice Cream” writing… “This is a JAM”. It is indeed a jam. A suggestive jam, not super overtly suggestive, but it’s pretty clear what they’re getting at with these lyrics off By Lainey • Aug 28, 2020 12:49 pm
Style The Emmys of Zendaya Zendaya has been nominated for her first Emmy for her work in Euphoria and if you haven’t watched it yet, maybe it’s time to get caught up because if you care about the entertainment industry and its talent, Zendaya is going to be one the biggest stars in By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 01:47 pm
Music Saturday Night BTS Fever BTS drops their new English-language track “Dynamite” on Friday. Photo teasers have been released over the last couple of weeks to promote the song and today, a teaser for the video dropped on the band’s social platforms. As we’ve seen, the song feels retro – and originally it was By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 01:01 pm
Style Lindsey’s Swimwear Not sure why I’m noticing so much celebrity swimwear these days, it’s not like I’m wearing any of it. I know it’s possible to go to the beach safely – I’m just not there yet. But maybe the fact that I’m thinking about swimwear means By Lainey • Aug 17, 2020 03:06 pm
