Month: September 2020

South African 800 metre Olympic champion Caster Semenya. (PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images) Caster Semenya lost her final appeal to compete in the 800 metres race at the postponed Toyko 2020 Olympics in a ruling by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court Tuesday (8 September). After a lengthy battle, Semenya has been told that in order
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Bedouine’s Azniv Korkejian, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra have shared a cover of Big Star’s classic “Thirteen.” Take a listen below (via Spacebomb Records). In a press release, Azniv Korkejian explained that the idea for the cover came about when the three artists were on tour together. “We threw
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Things are heating up for Zac Efron and Vanessa Valladares! Before going public with their relationship, they took their love to the slopes for an Australian winter getaway. Before Zac Efron and Vanessa Valladares were photographed holding hands, they took a secret trip to Thredbo, a ski resort in Australia, during the first week of September. Photos
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It seems that werewolves have taken a backseat when it comes to video games. Vampires and zombies are the ones that seem to get the most attention, yet the inherent cool factor in being a werewolf gets left behind. Sure, we have the upcoming Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood which finally pays attention to lycanthropes,
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A call for institutionalised conversion therapy in Poland has been roundly condemned by therapeutic and psychological experts in the country. Earlier this month, the Polish Episcopal Conference of Catholic bishops said that it was “necessary to create [conversion therapy] clinics… to help people regain their sexual health and natural sexual orientation”. The call for a
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Since filming ‘Dawson’s Creek’ in the late ’90s, Katie Holmes’ relationships have always been a roller coaster ride! Here’s a breakdown of all her romances. Since the ’90s, Katie Holmes‘ romantic relationships have been a topic of fascination among the public. There was her on-set romance with Joshua Jackson while filming Dawson’s Creek, her heavily sensationalized marriage
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What is it about high school that makes us return to it as a well for stories over and over again? Maybe it’s that it’s a unique time in life where we felt like grown-ups, but we were stuck in systems that treated us like children. We started to have a complex understanding of the
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Oscar hopefuls will have to meet a new set of inclusive hiring standards in order to qualify for Best Picture, an effort the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hopes will lead to greater diversity and representation both onscreen and behind the scenes. It’s part of the Academy Awards’ ongoing response to criticism over
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Jake Gyllenhaal starred in Brokeback Mountain with the late Heath Ledger. (Focus Features) Just two per cent of big budget films released in the last decade have had meaningful LGBT+ representation, according to an academic. Dr Ellie Lockhart, who has a PhD in communications, has been analysing recent films to figure out what kind of
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