Beautiful, eccentric, fiercely private and completely unpredictable, Greek actress Despina Mirou brings something to Hollywood that can’t easily be manufactured: mystery. Hollywood has always loved the femme fatale. The unforgettable woman who enters a room and changes its temperature. She’s beautiful, certainly, but beauty isn’t what makes people watch her. It’s the sense that there’s
Mama June star Pumpkin has shown off her major cash after working at a strip club. The reality TV star has been making some big bucks after starting to sell spicy pictures and videos. However, she has now been going to strip clubs and making even more money. Fans are shocked every time they see
Streaming may have made almost any movie available at the press of a button, but physical media is having a surprisingly good year. For movie fans who still want to actually own their favorites, 2026 has brought a steady stream of restorations, anniversary editions, and long-overdue upgrades. Even Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! finally made its
Nearly one year before her own death, Hayden Panettiere opened up about the special connection she shared with late Ice Princess costar Michelle Trachtenberg. “Actually, her grandmother lived across the street from my grandparents in Brooklyn. So I knew Michelle way before that … like Harriet the Spy days,” Panettiere told Entertainment Weekly in September
As middle and high school students head back to class for a new school year, combined research shows that affirming teachers and the support of friends are instrumental to a positive school experience for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGE) students. The research brief, School Experiences and Outcomes Among Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Young People, is
Critic’s Rating: 4 / 5.0 4 As a diehard It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fan, I’ve struggled to continue believing in the show in recent years. This year, that might finally change. The two-episode Season 18 premiere was packed with absurdly comedic scenes and trademark tantrums that felt closer to the spirit of earlier seasons
The end of an era has arrived in the mail — or, more accurately, on a web site. Columbia House, the once-ubiquitous mail-order music and media club, will stop accepting new orders after Sept. 15, bringing the curtain down on a 71-year run that helped millions of Americans build their music and movie collections one
Bad Bunny is headed back to Puerto Rico for the closing dates ofhis “Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour.” The global superstar will perform atwo-night “Cerramos en Casa” celebration at San Juan’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium on August 22nd and 23rd. Find Bad Bunny Tickets Tickets for both shows go on sale Wednesday, August 19th at
It’s been five long years since A Court of Silver Flames, the fifth book in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series, was released. Now, Maas has revealed the covers and titles of the sixth and seventh books in the series. Book six is A Court of Splintered Harmony, and it comes
Lamar Odom has gotten real and admitted whether he married Khloe Kardashian for fame or not. While he was already famous for his career, he did not get the amount of fame a Kardashian got. He was accused by a former friend of marrying the star for clout. Well, he has now spoken out on
Franz Kafka was one of the most important writers of the 20th Century. (He’s also one of the best – if you haven’t read any of his work, seek out his short stories.) Like many great artists, however, he never experienced this fame – in fact, he intended that all his work be burned after
Every year, ex-Black Crowes drummer and current syndicated radio host Steve Gorman would put on a fundraiser show for his kid’s high school performing arts department. In 2019, one of the performers cancelled, and Steve was scrambling to find a replacement. It turns out that ex-Hootie & the Blowfish frontman and country superstar Darius Rucker
Police in Greenville, South Carolina, issued a statement with more details surrounding Hayden Panettiere’s tragic death at age 36. Local authorities told NBC News in a statement that they, “accompanied by EMS personnel, responded to a report of an unresponsive female” at around 1:50 p.m. on Sunday, August 16. “Upon arrival, medical assistance was administered;
Even if the plot of Coyote vs Acme didn’t feel like an uncanny reflection of its own making, it would be hard not to mention the making of the film itself, anear-victim of Warner Bros’ habit of creating and then casting off feature films for tax write-offs. But Dave Green’s courtroom-drama parody does position one
LGBTQ+ people were the only demographic in a recent poll that supported allowing trans people to compete on sports teams as their gender. In results just posted online from the Pew Research Center, 73% of American adults said that they were either “not too” or “not at all” comfortable with “transgender athletes competing on sports
Critic’s Rating: 4.75 / 5.0 4.75 Well, that’s one way to shake things up! The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 4 flirted with the idea of Maggie getting a love interest, and it came out of left field. The latter seasons of The Walking Dead and the first two seasons of The Walking
Lin-Manuel Miranda has confirmed that he has no plans to return for Moana 3, telling Deadline, “My time in the Moanaverse is done, but I can’t wait to see how far she’ll go.” Miranda composed the songs for the original 2016 animated film, including “How Far I’ll Go,” which earned an Academy Award nomination for
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “A Kind of Magic” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world.
Michael Jackson left behind three children when he passed away in 2009, but there were still so many unanswered questions. As they have grown up, the kids have gone on their own paths, but Michael’s only daughter, Paris, is speaking up. She is revealing how she and her brothers were essentially banned from Neverland, but
2027 is already teed up with at least three animated movies that stand a good chance of breaking the $1 billion milestone next year, and a range of other prospective candidates that also look like promising box office wins for this time period. 2026 and 2025 have seen the release of a considerable assortment of


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Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishel looked back on leaving an “unhealthy relationship” when she was 19. “This was a rough year for Danielle, personally,” Fishel, 45, recalled on the Thursday, August 13, episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast. “I was in a very bad, unhealthy relationship that also then ended around … the
Not to overhype this week’s veto, but let’s overhype this veto. With two of the three icons on the block—and two hidden powers suddenly more consequential than ever—this quickly became one of the most important veto competitions of Big Brother Season 28. So, who won this oh-so-important veto? (CBS ©2026 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.) Yash won
Queens of the Stone Age revealed the title and release date of their upcoming album in a bloody teaser video starring frontman Josh Homme and guitarist-keyboardist Dean Fertita. The LP, titled Perfecth, is set to arrive on September 30th. Get Queens of the Stone Age Tickets Here The 90-second clip features the two QOTSA members
Alex G’s ongoing creative partnership with filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun begins another chapter this month with the soundtrack to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the director’s new genre-bending horror film following We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. Waxwork Records will release the film soundtrack digitally and physically
It’s been seven years since Joe Giudice was deported to Italy. His felony convictions ban him from entering the United States. Although he had lived in the States since he was a baby, he was sent back to his home country after spending 41 months in prison for fraud. His oldest daughter, Gia, renewed her
The James Bond casting rumors are heating up once again, and it appears that the franchise is closing in on who will play the next Agent 007. For many years, it was considered a role for a veteran actor like Henry Cavill, but that isn’t what Amazon MGM is going for. Instead, the studio wants
Every month, the What’s Up in YA newsletter has a roundup of the best YA graphic novels and comics out that month. I’ve combined all of these comics into a collection: Young Adult Graphic Novels & Comics of 2026. Anyone can browse Book Riot collections and click the covers to find the publisher’s description, the
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We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. Any products or services put forward appear in no particular order. if you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Tadashi Yanai is the richest man in Japan and the 31st richest man on the entire planet. He’s worth $42.8 billion, and today he made