Royals The Royal Name Change Drama …continued Meghan Markle’s given names were removed from Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth certificate a few weeks after he was born. The Sun reported on the change a few days ago, suggesting that Meghan made it happen because she wanted to be petty, or something. Meghan has since issued a By Lainey • Feb 02, 2021 11:20 am
Douchebags The Royal Name Change F-ckup This weekend, the Sun, which is one of the British tabloids that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are suing, published an article about the change on Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth certificate. There’s been a lot of controversy about this so let’s break it down. Archie was born By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 02:20 pm
Top Reads Prince Williams denounces racism If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you may have read a post or two about how I am married to an English Premier League fanatic. Jacek is Canadian and hockey is not his favourite sport. Over the last decade or so, football or soccer (depending on where By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 01:36 pm
Top Reads Cicely Tyson’s Legacy Hollywood icon Cicely Tyson died yesterday at 96 and tributes about her are being shared by so many artists today who benefited from her work and her grace. I was offline when the news broke but when I picked up my phone a couple of hours later last night, most By Lainey • Jan 29, 2021 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Riz and Steven: On Metal, Minari, Acting, and Codeswitching We’re less than a week away from the Golden Globe Awards now and I’m slowly making my way through most of the contenders. The one film that’s gaining momentum that I’ve yet to see – and I’m hoping to get a screener soon – is Lee Isaac By Lainey • Jan 28, 2021 01:16 pm
Amazingness Amanda Gorman Arrives, On Her Terms My favourite true but not-cool-to-say observation about the inauguration last week was that it was kind of boring, in the most blissfully relieving way – and the exception that proved the rule was the instantaneous and universal reaction to poet laureate Amanda Gorman; everyone fell in love with her at exactly By Duana • Jan 27, 2021 03:33 pm
Top Reads The Real Queen It’s quite a choice that PEOPLE Magazine has made for their cover story this week: What the Queen is REALLY like. And the image that was selected to front the issue – the Queen, not in regal monarch style but just about as casual as we’ll ever see her. By Lainey • Jan 27, 2021 01:53 pm
Aging Gorgessity Jennifer Lopez: 20th Anniversaries and Botox January 2001 was a big month for Jennifer Lopez and she’s been commemorating her anniversary moments on social media. Last week it was the 20th anniversary of her second album, J.Lo, and a “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” throwback. She recreated the video, sort of: What is By Lainey • Jan 27, 2021 12:33 pm
Top Reads Amanda Gorman, the Model A week ago today, Amanda Gorman was not a household name. A week ago she would have been putting the final touches on her inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb. She was perhaps practising the recitation, and then meditating, preparing to deliver her words at the Capitol to an audience By Lainey • Jan 26, 2021 11:09 am
Style Winter is Beyoncé I felt something shift last night, and it wasn’t just my period which, if I may, is something truly spectacular right now. Has anyone written a think-piece yet on pandemic periods? Because mine during all these months of lockdown has been volcanic. Is there a correlation? More on periods By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 01:29 pm
Top Reads Lori and MBJ: An Instagram Love Story Is this your favourite rom-com of 2021? It’s definitely mine – and it’s playing out on Instagram. Rom-coms, like most films, have three acts. We are currently still in the first act of Michael B Jordan Loves Lori Harvey: An Instagram Love Story. Will we see the second act? By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 10:26 am
Top Reads BTS x LV When I saw that Louis Vuitton was trending this morning and, at the time that I checked, there were over 100K tweets, I knew it couldn’t have been just because of the new collection. I suspected that either the company had gotten in some offensive f-cksh-t or… BTS. Because By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 03:42 pm
Style Celebrities on Inauguration Day I’ve told this story a few times so I hope you don’t mind me repeating it but today I think it’s worth coming back to. Remember Aretha Franklin’s hat at President Obama’s inauguration? And how a lot of people laughed at it? I loved it By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 12:40 pm
Top Reads Madame Vice President I will never forget the day after election day in 2016, and the utter, eerie silence on the L as I rode into work. My emotional shock that day was not just about the disbelief that Trump actually won, that he was going to be the actual president of the By Sarah • Jan 21, 2021 11:47 am
Top Reads Inauguration Day in America (a spark of hope) Inauguration Day marks the end of my trilogy on the 2021 American election. This election has been marred by lies, conspiracies, and armed insurrection, so I have never really relaxed even after the election was called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And I’m still not relaxed, even though By Sarah • Jan 21, 2021 09:41 am
Style History Has Its Eyes on Amanda Gorman I am not American. But that doesn’t mean that what we saw today in Washington, DC wasn’t significant to me. What happens in America has an impact on the entire world. And so, to you Americans out there reading this, please know that there were many of us By Lainey • Jan 20, 2021 02:54 pm
