Of all the awe-inspiring goals that can be scored in a soccer game — outside-the-box screamers, curling free kicks, cheeky chips, solo run stunners, even those that come off the Hand of God — none are as spectacular as the bicycle kick. The overhead acrobatic practically transcends the game itself, …

The diss track is ubiquitous in music, and it’s an especially common fixture in reggaeton. The genre, which flourished in Puerto Rico’s underground in the Nineties, drew heavily on hip hop and dancehall, two genres in which feuds between artists and crews erupt regularly. In reggaeton, those influences, along with …

Pelé, the greatest soccer player ever and the most decorated athlete in the history of “the Beautiful Game,” has died at the age of 82. Pelé’s death was confirmed in an Instagram post on Thursday. An exact cause of death was not given, though, in Dec. 2022, it was revealed …

What is Nick Cannon preparing for that the rest of us don’t know about? The Masked Singer host has officially welcomed his fifth child of the year, a baby girl named Halo Marie Cannon with Alyssa Scott, bringing his total count to a dozen children. Last December, Cannon and Scott’s …

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper have only been hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live for five years, but they already feel like an institution — or at least a towering testament to the eternal beauty of tipsy live television. The show is decisively more sauced and debauched than any other …

One of the greatest holiday gifts we, as a collective people, got this year was a perfect, no-notes slam dunk on men’s rights podcaster Andrew Tate by teenage climate activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg. After Tate tweeted a list of his car collection at her, bragging about …

Brad Pitt‘s ego cost Courtney Love a role in David Fincher‘s 1999 cult classic film Fight Club, the Hole frontwoman claimed in a new interview with Marc Maron. As she recalled, Fincher had already hired her to play Marla Singer when Pitt, who was cast in the lead role of …

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps), the historical heroine of Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, does not have it easy. When the movie opens, in 1877, she is on the verge of turning 40 years old and has feelings about it. “At the age of 40, a person begins to disperse and …

At the end of every tour of Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, country music fans have the opportunity to ascend a small staircase and have their photo taken on the very stage where legends like Hank Williams and Johnny Cash once stood. On this November afternoon, a few gray-haired stragglers of the …

For those immune to the charms of Elon Musk’s Twitter™ — a Squid Game-like arena teeming with edgelords, crypto enthusiasts, men’s rights activists who resemble Pitbull, and daily spam messages touting “part-time work” — the current film brouhaha may have escaped notice. In short: a trio of films, eagerly anticipated …