Last Thursday, the world-renowned country group formerly known as Lady Antebellum announced that they had officially changed their name to Lady A after being “awakened” to the unfortunate historical “associations” with the word “antebellum” in wake of the Black Lives Matter protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd. “We are regretful and embarrassed to
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Eva Marcille is leaving ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta,’ she confirmed on June 16. She’s hoping to do bigger and better things for her ‘culture and community,’ and here’s why. Read her full statement. Eva Marcille won’t return to Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta for season 13. The model announced her exit — after three seasons
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Lots of what the new Australian drama Babyteeth (available for digital rental on June 19) depicts—illness, risky first love, drug dependency—is stuff we’ve seen on film many times before. What makes this dreamy-sad film fresh and exciting is the perspective brought to familiar material by first-time feature director Shannon Murphy, making an auspicious big-screen debut
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Another cult classic for horror gamers looks to be getting a facelift in the future. According to Game Informer, Ziggurat Interactive has acquired several long-dormant properties, including Terminal Reality’s BloodRayne, with the intention of updating the current PC versions of the game (which are currently on Steam and GOG.com) to “improve compatibility and enhance the
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he supports any franchise that will hire quarterback Colin Kaepernick, after he’s gone three seasons unsigned following his ‘taking a knee’ racial injustice protests. Even though no NFL team has gone near signing quarterback Colin Kaepernick after 2016’s season, the league’s commissioner is encouraging a franchise to take a chance
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President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. (Sean Gallup/Getty) Andrzej Duda, president of Poland, quoted one of the most homophobic popes in history during a campaign speech as a thinly-veiled excuse for his own rampant homophobia. Duda is currently campaigning for reelection as president of Poland, and he has made his anti-LGBT+ views a large part of
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Randy Newman stopped by the latest remote edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he performed “Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)” from his 1974 album Good Old Boys. “This is a song I wrote back in the Pleistocene era,” Newman joked. “But it’s become relevant again.” Watch Newman’s performance below.
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We wouldn’t be surprised if the current time period, specifically the late 2010s to the early 2020s, is one day branded as the age of comebacks. From ’90s revivals to the return of questionable early-aughts trends—to this season’s continuing ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s renaissance—the fashion industry has been heavy-handedly leaning into the culture’s growing obsession
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TikTok fans raved over ‘national treasure’ Judi Dench and her 23-year-old grandson, Sam Williams. He has an uncanny resemblance to a certain red-haired pop star! Judi Dench, 85, danced as Old Deuteronomy on Cats, and she’s now bopping to the viral “Laxed (Siren Beat)” song on TikTok. The legendary theater performer and actress proved that her
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Jazzy Collins, a former casting producer for ‘The Bachelor’, criticized the show for only casting ‘ethnically ambiguous’ and ‘not too black’ cast members, shortly after the first black ‘bachelor’ Matt James was announced. The Bachelor just announced its first ever African American male lead Matt James on June 12 but that didn’t stop former casting
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Ahead of the release tomorrow for the next chapter for Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight (featuring Silent Hill‘s Pyramid Head and Cheryl Mason), Behaviour Interactive have dropped a little reminder in the form of a trailer on Dead by Daylight’s official Twitter account. In case you’ve been asleep for the past three weeks, the new
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Scumdogs rejoice: Gwar, the American heavy metal band (commonly stylized as GWAR), has backed a fan-launched campaign to replace the controversial Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Va., with a statue of Oderus Ungerus — a deceased member of the band. That’s right. Rather than honouring a “failed” 19th-century U.S. confederate general, one “GWAR scumdog” launched
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