This week, the internet was puzzled and amused by a viral video taken during a meal at a women’s retreat. In the clip, two women are discussing the relative merits of differing plates of barbecue food. On the right is Stormy Wellington, a wealth coach with 1.4 million Instagram followers …

Coming off a busy Paris Fashion Week, L.A. singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams returns with her second single of 2022, “Difficult.” The track is a candid look at the uncertainty that comes with growing up and all its forms: In one line, Abrams sings, “If I move out this year, I’ll feel …

The West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., serves people from all over the mid-South (and, sometimes, beyond). One Alabama patient, Tamika (not her real name), came through the clinic in 2021 with a story that illustrates the wide spectrum of challenges facing Black women who live in states that …

Killer Mike visited the Tonight Show Friday to discuss the importance of voting on a local level and the recently passed Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act, as well as perform his latest solo single “Run.” With the midterm elections coming up, Killer Mike sat down with Jimmy Fallon to encourage people …

Early in Todd Fields’ Tár, Lydia Tár (played by Cate Blanchett) — a world renowned conductor; the rare maestro to cross over into something approaching mainstream recognition, with the money, orchestral appointments, sycophants, and New Yorker coverage to prove it — makes a decision. She is at the height of …

Charlie Puth‘s strong new album, Charlie, is the product of two break-ups —one with a longtime business associate, the other with a girlfriend. “It was a loss at one time of two relationships that I thought I needed to succeed,” he says in a revealing interview on the new episode …

The second installment of Kanye West’s interview with Fox Host Tucker Carlson capped off a controversial week for the rapper, who received widespread condemnation after he displayed T-shirts sporting the racist rallying cry “white lives matter” at his Monday. West found safe harbor with primetime cable’s resident promoter of white …

The saying goes that we should “eat the rich,” but after watching the long, central set piece of Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, in which a crowd of financially overstuffed yachters slip-n’-slides through volcanic sprays of liquid shit and pools of their own vomit, who has the appetite, really? One …

Actor Anthony Rapp testified about the 1986 incident at the center of his lawsuit against Kevin Spacey on Friday in a Manhattan courtroom on the second day of the civil trial. Rapp, who was 14 at the time of the alleged encounter with a 26-year-old Spacey, first alleged in 2017 …

After continued pressure from Democrats, the Biden administration has taken a stance on what they want the future of American drug policy to look like. Announced Thursday, the president’s executive order pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana, and announced new efforts to pressure larger state reforms. …