A single question about Beauty and the Beast became a novel, then an interconnected fantasy universe, then an award-winning screenplay. With the October 2026 release of the second Age of Gods novel, the story keeps growing. Most fantasy universes begin with a map or a magic system. Leslie Anne Lee’s began with a question asked
Caution: This post contains spoilers from NCIS: Origins season 3 episode 5, “Baila Esta Cumbia.”After two seasons of questions and theories, NCIS: Origins seemed to reveal everything. As Gibbs told Bishop during NCIS: Origins season 3, episode 4 that Lala had died in a plane crash years earlier, it felt like the chance of a
A couple spends a weekend at their marriage counselor’s house trying to put the marriage back together, and the counselor’s methods get crueler as the weekend goes on. That is the setup for Cupid, with Catherine Zeta-Jones as the counselor, and Deadline reports that Daisy Ridley and Darren Criss are the couple, with Judy Greer
Since being freed from her conservatorship on November 12, 2021, Britney Spears has made one thing clear: She’s human. “I’m extremely weak but through weakness they say you will find the most strength,” she wrote on Instagram in August. The past five years haven’t been simple for the Princess of Pop, 44. She’s gotten married


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Storyteller Michael Allen Releases New Album Michael Allen is a storyteller, not just a singer-songwriter per say, as this country-Americana artist has an illustrious career in music and engineering that spans the genres dating back to the 60s, and considers himself a product of the foundations of the past. On his new album Come Along
Khloe Kardashian is under fire for her “meaty” lips. Fans think that she has gone too far with her lip filler. However, the Kardashians are known for their plastic surgery and appearance-altering procedures. So, this may not be something that bothers her. Khloe has been the most transparent with fans about everything she has done.
Orville Peck rode into New York on Tuesday night for the second of two concerts at the Brooklyn Paramount. Part of his “Man Turned Mule Tour” behind his latest excellent album, Mule, the shows turned the venue into a smoke-filled honky tonk. Find Orville Peck Tickets Here Sharing the stage with a makeshift bar and
Image Credit: Getty Images A predawn crash on an Anchorage street corner has pulled Jack Sabàto into a criminal case his famous family is still struggling to absorb. The 32-year-old son of Virginia Madsen and Antonio Sabàto Jr. was arrested on November 9, 2026, hours after a 42-year-old pedestrian named Carl Simmonds was struck and
Sierra La Puerta (Photo: @geejaygee12) Sierra La Puerta, a drag performer in New York City, has gone viral with footage from a recent show at queer bar ICON in Astoria. In it, she switches places with a twinky lookalike on stage during her routine. They perform the more daring dance moves (death drops, etc.). In
You can’t keep a Good Guy down. It’s been almost ten years since we last got a Chucky movie (Cult of Chucky in 2017). The creator of the killer doll franchise, Don Mancini, has been busy with the Chucky TV series, which ran for three seasons and earned widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike.
Image Credit: Getty Images Skims fans opened 12 tiny doors this holiday season, and plenty of them did not like what they found. Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand is now offering refunds on its $148 advent calendar after unboxing videos turned the festive countdown into a punchline online. So why are shoppers so upset, and how
Tame Impala, Dua Lipa and SZA will top the bill when the Coachella festival returns to Indio, Ca., next April. Madonna, Phoebe Bridgers, Weezer, Robyn and reggaeton pioneer Daddy Yankee are among the other major names on a lineup that makes plenty of room for electronic music, from dancefloor vets to contemporary techno. The festival
Caution: This post contains spoilers from NCIS Season 24 Episode 5, “Speechless.”Over 24 years, NCIS has introduced many family members. Team members have gotten married, or their parents and siblings have appeared. Each time, questions arise about how and when those characters could return, while others seem to disappear into the void due to actor
Somebody in the English village of Ditchfield is turning the rats loose on purpose. That is the setup of Rise of the Rats, a British creature feature directed by Stephen Roach, and the trailer lays it out in a little under two minutes. The story follows Kayla Thornhill, a young punk who reluctantly travels to
Princess Kate Middleton has taken her ongoing cancer recovery one step at a time. “‘I was told in hospital that my recovery would not be linear, there will be good days and bad days, that it will take time,” Kate, 44, told Country Life in a profile published Wednesday, November 11. “This is the same


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Before Heated Rivalry, before Criminal Minds, before the Met Gala, and before the throngs of fans shouting his name, Connor Storrie was a clown. Playing a cigarette-smoking Russian hockey star in the gay hockey romance that took the internet by storm brought Storrie near-instant A-list fame, but his career consisted of waiting tables, modeling, and
South Carolina libraries, both school and public, have been under attack as long and as severely as in other states. The state is one of three with mechanisms to ban books statewide in schools, and it’s demanded the removal of 21 books from all public school libraries. Once the largest list of state-sanctioned book bans,
Coachella has (finally) unveiled its lineup for 2027, confirming previous reports that SZA, Tame Impala, and Dua Lipa will headline. While that trio was expected, there are some interesting names in the subheadlining tier. Daddy Yankee has been given the “in the desert” billing, while Phoebe Bridgers, Don Toliver, and a Madonna set in the
Robert Eggers called Werwulf “the darkest thing I have ever written” when Focus Features brought footage to CinemaCon. Now we have the MPA’s full description of what Eggers has in store for Christmas. Werwulf is rated R for “strong bloody/disturbing violent content, gore, sexual assault, graphic nudity and strong sexual content.” Set in 13th-century England,
Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough are the two hosts ofDancing With The Stars. However, it was recently revealed that one makes way more than the other. Fans are wondering why this is. However, it is shocking who makes more than the other considering their fame. Regardless, this does not seem to be an issue for
View gallery Image Credit: Getty Images The Hunger Games franchise has given us some of the most heartbreaking stories of three of Panem’s children: Katniss Everdeen, our girl on fire; academy student-turned-Peacekeeper-turned-dictator Coriolanus Snow; and now, District 12’s victor Haymitch Abernathy. As we await the release of Sunrise on the Reaping, one star from the
Image Credit: Variety via Getty Images Dustin Hoffman has described the end of his first marriage as like “losing a limb.” He was going through a breakup with ballerina and actress Anne Byrne when he made Kramer vs. Kramer, the divorce drama that earned him his first Best Actor Oscar. In 1980, the year he
Not even three months out from the release of the maximalist techno opus Alien Metal, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard will drop a companion album in a similar musical style, Entropy, on Dec. 4 through its own (p)doom records label. The first single is the vocal effects-drenched “Rogue Wave,” perhaps the most danceable and
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Chase McWhorter is speaking out after Miranda Hope filed for divorce. “All right, well, thoughts? You may have won the battle, but I will win the war,” McWhorter said in a Monday, November 9, TikTok, sharing a screenshot of a headline regarding the filing. “I’m just kidding. Obviously, I’ve
If you are asked to pick a genre you most associate with Steven Spielberg, you’d probably pick sci-fi. He is one of the ultimate masters of sci-fi and is responsible for quite a lot of the most familiar visual language that we associate with sci-fi, especially heart-driven, Amblin-like releases that appeal to a very broad
Police in a remote stretch of Himachal Pradesh find a gutted structure and a body left sitting upright. The family refuses the official verdict and hires a paranormal investigator. That case comes out of Jay Alani‘s own files, and he has now built it into Numinous, a Hindi and English horror feature he directs and
The fight over who gets to bring Freddy Krueger back is over. Dread Central can exclusively report that Warner Bros.’ competing A Nightmare on Elm Street project, which had Lee Cronin in talks to write and direct, is no longer moving forward. Paramount Primal is now the only company developing a new Elm Street film.
The opening round of the 2026 Goodreads Choice Awards has started, and it continues until November 22nd. Following that is the final round of voting, which will have a shortlist of the most popular books from round one. That opens November 24th and runs until November 29th. The winners are announced December 3rd. There are