Alexandra Shipp has the rare Hollywood distinction of making one of the world’s biggest directors cry — and over Skype, no less. “For my final audition for Tick, Tick… Boom!, Lin [Manuel Miranda] couldn’t make it to L.A., so we got him on Skype, and Andrew [Garfield] and I in a room together, and we

Class is in session this month at Slow Factory’s Open Edu program, which will dissect and explore a range of beauty topics for their November “Beauty and the Beast” focus. With the schedule already underway, this week the human rights and environmental justice organization hosted a class on “Men, Ma

With music documentaries on the rise, it’s no surprise that Canadian rock-star Alanis Morissette received her own feature. The Grammy-winning singer rose to fame in the mid-90s after her wildly popular third-studio album, Jagged Little Pill was released. Through 13-tracks, Morissette brazenly sang a

Nothing better has come along with the pop-punk revival than new Avril Lavigne music. And that’s saying a lot, considering that the revival has also brought us Olivia Rodrigo and the return of the plaid pleated skirt. Of course, Lavigne has released new music since 2004, but that is if you count the

More than twenty years after the original anime premiered in Japan, Netflix is now firmly underway on its own live-action adaptation of the beloved series One Piece. After first ordering the show straight to series way back in January 2020, the streaming service has now cast five of its key roles.

Alt-R&B K-pop artist BIBI is undoubtedly one to watch out for. After placing in second on the singing competition show The Fan in 2018, she shortly signed with Feel Ghood Music and made her debut with “BINU.” In just two years, the 23-year-old singer-songwriter has become known for seamlessly intert

As you likely know, Travis Scott’s hometown music festival Astroworld took a deadly turn last week, with crowd surges and stampedes leading to the deaths of eight concert attendees, and the serious injuries of hundreds more — including a nine-year-old boy still in a coma, and a 22-year-old woman now

After three years, Daniel Lee and Bottega Veneta have agreed to part ways. Over the course of his tenure, the now-former creative director put the luxury brand back on the fashion map with coveted “It” accessories, a strong celebrity following, and a newfound relevancy within the industry and beyond

Kim Reed was helping homebound elderly patients as a social worker in the early 2000s when she picked up a part-time hostess job at Babbo, the Greenwich Village restaurant at the center of what was Mario Batali’s restaurant empire. She created the nightly seating chart, which meant juggling requests

It’s impossible to imagine anyone but Nicholas Braun playing Succession’s hapless, charmingly inarticulate Cousin Greg—or, for that matter, anyone but Kieran Culkin playing Roman Roy. But during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Culkin revealed that he originally auditioned to pla

Throughout her short but extraordinary life, Diana, Princess of Wales, deployed fashion as a weapon. Born into a culture that belittled women and married into an institution that celebrated suppression, there were numerous occasions in the princess’s troubled history when the clothes she wore were h

Prince Harry candidly discussed misinformation culture yesterday during Wired magazine’s RE:WIRED virtual summit in New York City. His talk came around the same time as his wife Meghan Markle’s New York Times Dealbook summit appearance.

Harry opened up during the session about how misinformation ha

Lawyers for the publisher of the Mail on Sunday are appearing in court this week appealing against a summary judgement that found their publication of parts of a letter the Duchess of Sussex wrote to her father was “unlawful.” And today, a witness statement that they hope to be able to rely on as ev

Ahead of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, investigative journalist and Town & Country contributor Vicky Ward is releasing her previously off-the-record conversations with Jeffrey Epstein in a three-part docuseries called Chasing Ghislaine. The program, which is executive produced by author James Patterson

There are parts of Passing, director Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel about two women whose friendship is tested by deceit and desire, that feel as real today as they did nearly a century ago when the story was first told. After all, Passing is about the seemingly eternal strug

Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson might really become a thing, at least according to Us Weekly. The outlet reports that the surprise pair may have a romantic future after all. A source told the tabloid that Kardashian “is falling for” Davidson, with whom she spent multiple nights out last week. “He m

We all remember that viral picture from 2017 of Lady Gaga dressed as a Starbucks Barista pointing sternly at the camera, right? Not much is really known about what was really going down in that photo, but what we do know, for a fact, is that she was wearing Gucci in that moment. You know, just your