As we have squarely arrived in the eighth circle of hell that is Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the author of a confidential letter alleging sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford, has come forward to set the record straight. The Post reports that Ford sent the paper a tip in July, but refused to…
In her forthcoming memoire, which sounds like a big ole finger to celebrity ghostwritten self-promo, Lily Allen claims that she once woke up to a record producer sexually assaulting her. She has mentioned sexual assault before, but now describes the encounter in her book, via the Guardian:
Less than a day after news broke that a Border Patrol agent has been apprehended and charged with murdering four women in Laredo, Texas, news has broken that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was apprehended and charged with ten felony counts of sodomy and one of incest in Medford, Oregon. Officials have…
FYI, Cats of England: Tesco of Rugby is a no-judgement zone. If you feel like, say, swiping some treats off the shelf and then plopping down for a nap like our hero friend here, you can absolutely go for it! Howl at the moon, run up and down the aisles, get high on catnip and pay what you wish (nothing!), live your …
Announcement: We are now pumpin’.
Nearly three decades after she was famously subjected to an eight-hour grilling by an all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee about her allegations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill says it remains “incredibly difficult” for accusers to report abuse. In a statement on Friday, Hill invoked…
Already the previews from the final season of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown are bursting open the tear ducts. Yesterday, CNN released a clip of an interview with comedian W. Kamau Bell, who joined Bourdain in Nairobi for his last completed show. The season will include that episode with Bourdain’s written voiceover;…
Is Drake dating an 18-year-old?
Miss Michigan has arrived, and Michigan government officials can suck it. On Sunday evening, Emily Sioma used her two seconds of airtime in her Miss America Pageant introduction to remind America that even years after it was revealed that an entire city put up to 12,000 children at risk of developmental brain damage…
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown won six Emmys on Sunday night, including two posthumous wins for Bourdain himself. He was awarded one for best informational series and the other for writing for non-fiction program–long due to his words, which were personal and heartfelt yet always in service of helping his audience…
Following six new allegations of sexual harassment and rape, longtime CBS C.E.O. Les Moonves has resigned effective immediately. Moonves has called the accusations–which include forcing oral sex on two women, pulling his penis out in a 9 a.m. meeting, physically overpowering women, and vindictively shattering…
I do not follow tennis, but it’s pretty obvious even to me that the sport and its coverage has been testing Serena Williams with overtly sexist bullshit. When the French Tennis Federation recently said her medically-necessary full-body catsuit, which she said made her feel like a warrior, “went too far,” it smacked of…
Ariana Grande had to disable the comments on her Instagram to fend off hordes of trolls blaming her for the death of rapper Mac Miller, whom she’d dated until May 2018. She didn’t respond.
Here is when you know things have gone terribly, terribly wrong:
The Playboy Club, a chain started in 1960 which expanded to over 30 locations nationwide over its 28-year run, is reopening in Midtown Manhattan next week. It is going to be, uh, quite something.
Cardi B throws shoes at her enemies sometimes; Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are enemies (or not?); Cardi B allegedly threw her shoe at Nicki Minaj at the Harper’s Bazaar fashion week party on Friday night. She can be heard yelling “Write some shit about my kid again bitch.”
“It rubs the lotion on its skin....”
Interview, the splashy art and fashion magazine founded by Andy Warhol in 1969, and more recently known as the industry shysters notorious for not paying their contributors, is expected to relaunch this month after their sudden shutdown in May. They have now officially established that they are not repaying their…
Earlier this week, the Roanoke Times reported news of what is either a thoroughly compelling mystery or truly amateur burglary: in two separate nighttime break-ins this summer, thieves crept into a Roanoke, Virginia shoe store and made off with a few clothing items and 13 right-foot display shoes. The matching shoes…
