I was a true devotee of the first few seasons of American Horror Story, but I dropped off during Freak Show, which was just a tad too fucked up for me to muddle through before bed. So it is with great anticipation that I await AHS: Apocalypse, which is supposedly something of a mashup of seasons one and three—with…

The New York Times reported on Sunday night that Asia Argento—one of the first to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, and one of the leading voices behind the #MeToo movement—paid out $380,000 to a young actor and musician who accused her of sexually assaulting him when he was only 17 years old.

Selena Gomez and her three best friends got matching tattoos over the weekend, and not a single one of them thought to invite me.

For years, Hollywood executives balked at casting Asian-Americans in leading roles, claiming, among other things, that minority leads were a financial risk. And yet, somehow, a film with an all-East Asian cast managed to rake in $34 million over five days, with nary an Emma Stone in sight! Wild.

Kellyanne Conway is allegedly the Counselor to the President, but it appears her job primarily consists of going on television and saying dumb shit. Take, for instance, her Sunday appearance on ABC’s The Week, in which she decided it was a good idea to admit that handing out hush money is standard practice in the…

For the last two weeks, I have been following the incredibly depressing story of an orca whale in the Pacific Ocean who continued to carry the body of her dead calf long after she died. According to reports, the bereaved mother has finally let go of the calf’s body, which hopefully means she and I can begin the…

Last week, Lindsay Lohan managed to stomp on all that goodwill she earned from her 17-second MTV spot by claiming that women who speak out against sexual assault as part of the #MeToo movement “look weak.” Those comments, which she made to UK publication The Times, prompted appropriate backlash, and on Sunday Lohan…

Not that I can ever pretend to understand Azealia Banks’s life, but I must address this very important headline in Stereogum on Sunday declaring the following:

Actor Steven Seagal, whose martial arts film credits include several direct-to-video Golden Raspberry winners and whose life credits include several charges of sexual assault, has been appointed Russia’s special representative to the United States, in an effort to “improve Russian-American relations.” If helping to…

Charlotte Rae, the actor who portrayed Mrs. Garrett on Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, has died. She was 92 years old.

The O.C. premiered on August 5, 2003, a simpler time in which we had flip phones and layered t-shirts and the idiot in the White House didn’t have access to Twitter. Today it turns 15, so if it were a person, it too could learn what I learned as a high-schooler who treated The O.C. as gospel: everything on this show…

Demi Lovato has released her first public statement since suffering an overdose last month.

As a child, my favorite fantasy books were not Harry Potter but a series called Dealing with Dragons, which followed the adventures of a feisty unconventional princess and the dragon she implored to hold her hostage. Princesses pissed me off because they were beautiful and boring. Dealing with Dragons’s heroine was…

CBS’s board hasn’t quite figured out what to do with Les Moonves, the network’s chairman and chief executive, following a bombshell report in the New Yorker detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

Just as a reality TV show is always in danger of cancellation, so too is a nation run by a reality TV star, whether that cancellation be by nuclear annihilation, climate disaster, economic collapse, fundamentalist religious uprising, or all of us yelling, “FUCK IT” and fleeing to Finland. The stress of existing at the…

If Book Club is my personal Avengers: Infinity War, then this video of former Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry playing drums for Rick Astley at the U.K.’s Camp Bestival is my Concert for Bangladesh, minus the do-gooding and George Harrison.

In July 2017, a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Justine Damond, a 40-year-old Australian native and yoga instructor who had called 911 to report overhearing a sexual assault. Earlier this year, the officer, Mohamed Noor, was charged with murder and manslaughter; now, Damond’s family is suing Noor, his…

At age 28, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took on one of New York’s tightest political machines and managed to unseat one of the highest ranking Democrats in Congress. She has single-handedly sparked a nationwide discussion over the future of the Democratic party, the role of representation, and the power ready to be…

I had hoped against hope that Jay Ellis would still find a way to pop up somewhere in the midst of Insecure’s upcoming third season, but alas. Issa Rae confirmed this weekend that Lawrence is out this time around because “You never see the exes again,” which, I mean, I keep my exes around most of the time, and they…

Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande are still madly in love or whatever, but unlike everyone I went to camp with, they will no longer use Instagram to throw that love in everyone else’s face all the time.