Half a dozen Top Chef contestants race through an empty Whole Foods store, wantonly sniffing produce with unmasked faces and grabbing jars with ungloved hands. Returning to cook in a crowded kitchen, they jostle each other and exchange sweaty hugs and high-fives. They’re prepping food for a restaurant crammed with patrons, who clink their glasses
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Critics have long suspected that The Matrix was a metaphor for the trans experience. (Warner Bros) Lilly Wachowski, who co-directed and co-wrote The Matrix with her sister Lana Wachowski, has confirmed that the film series is a metaphor for the trans experience. Lana and Lilly Wachowski co-wrote and co-directed the initial Matrix trilogy, released between 1999
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Chicago rapper FBG Duck was shot and killed in downtown Chicago on Tuesday (August 4), the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed. Born Carlton Weekly, he was shot on the 100 block of East Oak Street and pronounced dead at 5:06 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He was 26. In a press
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[embedded content] Twenty-one years after her breakthrough film’s release, Lilly Wachowski has finally confirmed theories about the trans allegory at the heart of The Matrix, the blockbuster film franchise she codirected with her sister Lana. In a video interview for Netflix, Wachowski spoke candidly about the trilogy’s implicit trans narrative, explaining how she and Lana—who
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Rihanna broke down her three-step ‘nighttime skincare routine’ while breaking down her makeup — no wipes needed! The singer used products exclusively from her new Fenty Skin brand. Rihanna’s nighttime skincare routine is good for both your skin and the Earth. The songstress and entrepreneur revealed this “vegan, gluten-free and very Earth-conscious” three-step regimen, using
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Samson Tequir. (Facebook) In the latest flare-up amid the Black Lives Matter protests continuing to seize major US cities, a Black trans man was left with his jaw and eye socket shattered after two men brutally beat him up. Samson Tequir, 30, who helps organise demonstrations in Rochester, New York, was assailed last Friday afternoon
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“While we have held onto certain positions for a many years, we have also periodically made dispositions,” Frances Townsend, MacAndrews & Forbes’s vice chairman, general counsel, and chief administrative officer said in a statement. “Our world and economy are transforming and with it we are evolving our portfolio, to allow for new and compelling opportunities
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The time has finally come. Kourtney Kardashian’s ‘Tarzan,’ son Reign Disick, finally got what appears to be his first haircut! The ‘KUWTK’ star revealed what she did with her son’s chopped locks. Kourtney Kardashian, 41, is mourning her son Reign Disick’s first major haircut. The five-year-old, whom Kourtney shares with her ex Scott Disick, 37,
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Ryan Reynolds shared in a new interview with Fast Company that the plantation site of his and Blake Lively’s 2012 wedding is ‘impossible to reconcile,’ as he profusely and ‘unreservedly’ apologized for the mistake. It’s been almost eight years since Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively exchanged their ‘I dos,’ and they are still reckoning with their decision to
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