On Thursday, the Backstreet Boys came back from the dead. Not to be outdone, rival boy band 98 Degrees has announced that they’re going on tour. Just in time for summer, right? Not exactly.

What’s wrong with this photo of Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, and Sarah Silverman on this year’s cover of GQ’s comedy issue? Absolutely nothing: They’re gorgeous and stunning, powerful and collected, and they have multiple arms and legs.

The Backstreet Boys are back in town with another song that deals with matters of the heart.

Do you remember the feeling of being an eight-year-old and desperately needing a Razor scooter? No, not wanting. Needing. You needed it so much you were willing to build up the courage to ask your mom to buy it for you right in front of the checkout aisle.

Ryan Murphy, the writer/producer/multi-hyphenate behind Glee and pretty much every show on FX (American Horror Story, American Crime Story, Feud), got a lengthy profile in The New Yorker titled “How Ryan Murphy Became the Most Powerful Man in TV.” It might as well have been called something about how Murphy is the…

Two more women have come forward with allegations against R. Kelly, just days after the Women of Color committee within the Time’s Up movement threw its support behind the #MuteRKelly campaign and the singer’s representatives responded by calling it a “lynching.”

According to a startling new report from Reveal, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been using dental and bone scans to put immigrant minors into adult detention facilities.

There’s already too many podcasts in this cold, cruel world, but here’s one I bet you didn’t know about: The Green Line, which is by and and for border patrol agents. The podcast, which is put out by the Border Patrol union, has about 200 episodes, and is recorded in studios owned by Breitbart, your friendly…

I’ll get right to it: T.I.—the rapper who entered the indelible lines “Bring ‘em out, bring ‘em out” into history—has been nominated for a Tony Award for his song on The SpongeBob SquarePants Musical. Apparently, everyone who’s anyone had a song on the Broadway musical soundtrack, which is nominated for Best Original…

There was a time when Ashlee Simpson, sister to Jessica and daughter-in-law, lest you forget, to Diana Ross, broadcasted details of her personal life and changes in hair color on national television. It was a simpler time, almost 15 years ago, and even though we can’t turn back the clock, break free from this…

John Woo is directing an English-language remake of his classic 1989 Hong Kong action movie, The Killer, and Lupita Nyong’o might just star in the movie’s titular role. Deadline reports that Nyong’o is in talks to play the lead character, an assassin who gets back in the game for one last hit after they realize they…

On Saturday, the New York Times published an extensive report about how a small group of women working at Nike got fed up with their shitty workplace culture and collected data on how said workplace culture had repeatedly failed women.

David Cope didn’t set out to make anyone mad. In 1980, the composer envisioned a tool to help cure his creative block: a machine that could keep track of all the sounds and loose threads running through his mind, find similarities, and produce an entire piece of music inspired by it. So he built it.

I didn’t intend to start my day by crying at my desk (which is also my kitchen table—I’m working from home), but dammit, here we are. A brand new exhibit at a museum in Danville, Iowa contains copies of the only letters Anne Frank and her sister Margot wrote to their American pen pals, two school-age girls named…

Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the fuckery committed regularly by certain elected representatives.

Georgina Chapman, the British fashion designer and co-founder of the women’s brand Marchesa, returned to work for the first time since the avalanche of sexual assault and rape allegations against her now ex-husband Harvey Weinstein began last October. Chapman was seen leaving her New York City apartment on March 15,…

They say the mark of intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in your head at the same time and not flip the freak out, but it seems a lot of people can’t fathom the idea that two women rappers could be both good at their jobs. Cardi B is great, and Nicki Minaj is also great, and the persistent rumor…

In the music video for his new single, “Let Me,” former One Directioner Zayn Malik seems to be in the business of delivering suitcases to a number of mob-esque guys. We open on a scene of Malik arriving at the club in what looks like Miami, bearing—yes—a sleek black suitcase and eyeing a blonde-ish girl on the dance…

Cardi B co-hosted Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and her effortless, comedic stage presence has me convinced that she could do Fallon’s job—not that I want her to, she should keep making music (please don’t stop making music). I have to admit, watching Cardi make Jimmy Fallon laugh seriously…

Cardi B’s full-length album Invasion of Privacy delivered one of the year’s best getting-ready/going-out songs, “She Bad.” (The two-syllable title perfectly captures the track’s ethos and serves as a personal inspiration to me.) Not to be outdone, Drake submitted his entry into the Song of the Summer category early,…