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Festival season is in full swing, and while Coachella has come and gone, there are still plenty of music events to look forward to this summer, including Governors Ball in New York. Running from June 9-11, this year’s headliners are Lizzo, Kendrick Lamar, and Odesza, joined by many more must-see acts hitting the stage. Here’s

It is 3 A.M., and I am sitting on the floor of Erbil International Airport, stunned. Just a few days before, I had been waiting for my boyfriend, Salem, to come home from a reporting trip in Iraq. We had been living in Istanbul, Turkey for a little over a year and while neither of

It didn’t take long after TMZ broke the news that Taylor Swift and Matty Healy ended their whirlwind romance for a source to explain why. Entertainment Tonight got more detailed intel from an insider. The reasons Swift and Healy broke up aren’t all too surprising, given Swift just ended her six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn

Spoilers below. The Idol is about nihilism, or consumerism, or gender power dynamics, or the ruins of culture, or sexual empowerment (but probably sexual manipulation), or maybe the price of one’s soul. Any of these explanations are equally plausible after the series’ disjointed, if intriguing, premiere episode, in which pop star Jocelyn (Lily Rose-Depp) attempts

Spoilers below. Alycia Debnam-Carey has had a rough go of it over the last decade onscreen. First, she was murdered mere seconds after finally consummating her relationship with the girl she loved; after that, she spent years navigating a post-apocalyptic, zombie-riddled version of Los Angeles. Most recently, as if all that wasn’t enough, she’s been

On June 4, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s daughter Lilibet Diana celebrated her second birthday in California, where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex make their home. The newly named Princess turned one-years-old during her late great-grandmother’s Platinum Jubilee last year. Everyone was gathered to honor Queen Elizabeth, who passed away in September 2022, just

Spoilers below. Flight 828 has reached its final destination. In the series finale of the NBC-turned-Netflix supernatural drama Manifest, the passengers of the infamous flight, who inexplicably disappeared for five-and-a-half years during a routine trip from Jamaica to New York on April 7, 2013, faced their final judgment in the eyes of the Divine Consciousness

On Saturday, Jennifer Lopez headed out with her twins Emme and Max to lunch in Beverly Hills. J.Lo wore her favorite aviator sunglasses and a Gucci X Adidas button-up shirt paired with her cross body Gucci bag. She had on loose fit jeans, white sneakers, and swept her hair back in a casual ponytail. The

Actor Tom Holland had his 27th birthday on June 1, and he celebrated by sharing the “sexiest” photo of himself on Instagram. It was a big hit, especially with his girlfriend, Zendaya. In the picture, Holland is wearing a bunch of gear, including a wetsuit, helmet, goggles, and a pair of floppy shoes. He looks

This week, Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown and her fiancé, Jake Bongiovi, had an engagement party for friends and family just three months after announcing they were planning to get married on social media. Brown’s hairstylist Pete Burkill shared a few pics from the event on Thursday, showing the couple standing together in front of

It’s Pride Month, and Taylor Swift took a moment to speak to her fans and the LGBTQIA+ community during her Eras tour concert in Chicago, Illinois, this week. “I’m looking out tonight, I’m seeing so many incredible individuals who are living authentically and beautifully, and this is a safe space,” Swift said while seated at

Spoilers ahead. With a title like “So Long, Farewell,” you’d think the last episode of Ted Lasso marked a definitive end to Apple TV+’s beloved comedy series. And it some ways it did—the mustachioed titular coach steps down as manager of AFC Richmond and returns home to Kansas to reunite with his son—but it also

Spoilers below. There’s a moment near the climax of the magnificent animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse in which it seems, perhaps, there might be too many Spider-People. Miles Morales (a fantastic Shameik Moore) is fleeing the Spider-Society headquarters with hundreds, if not thousands, of Spider-Folk from across the multiverse hot in pursuit, including the

Taylor Swift is in the midst of one of her biggest years in music with her Eras tour, the release of Midnights, and her upcoming releases of her re-recorded albums Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), out July 7, and 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which is heavily teased to be coming after. Make no mistake: Swift has brought

Taylor Swift really likes Matty Healy and is spending lots of time with him, Us Weekly reports, despite fans’ (and Azealia Banks’) concerns over his various controversies. A source shed light on the couple’s relatively new romance and how serious it is looking. Swift is on cloud nine, the source indicated, and really is quite

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s rekindled romance appears to have really taken off, at least according to Us Weekly‘s source. An insider told the outlet, “They’ve practically moved in with each other. They each have their own places, but they’re spending every day they can together and traveling together.” Mendes’ and Cabello’s feelings for each

The Daily Mail got a rare and very extensive update from two sources on the state of affairs between Jennifer Garner, her ex-husband Ben Affleck, and his new wife, Jennifer Lopez. Things are going well these days, a source close to both Garner and Affleck explained. “Ben and Jen [Garner] have finally gotten to a

Before they got married, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons dated for years and welcomed two sons. The couple knew they were the ones for each other whether or not there was a ring on it—though Dunst did wear an engagement ring for years before the ceremony. The two actors first met while working on the

When Nicole Kidman met Keith Urban in 2005, she was immediately attracted to him. But she says he didn’t get in touch with her for ages after she gave him her phone number. Kidman told Ellen in 2017, “I remember thinking, I had such a crush on him, and he wasn’t interested in me. It’s

The Summer I Turned Pretty is coming back to sweep us off our feet again. Adapted from Jenny Han’s popular YA romance books, the Prime Video series follows teenager Belly over a transformative summer as she falls into a love triangle with two brothers she’s always seen as her closest friends. After trying to figure

Hailey Bieber is manifesting a great summer for herself—and kicking the new season off with vacation pics, naturally. Hailey shared three posts on Instagram featuring her yachting and generally lounging around in a red string bikini. In one video, her husband Justin Bieber is carrying her. The lighthearted moment offers a rare look into their

While Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are well known for their years-long public trolling of each other, they aren’t beyond flirting on the internet either. Lively had her own moment this weekend when she reposted a photo she took of Reynolds sitting out with his biceps on display. Instagram Reynolds featured the pic on his

Press Play is a recurring column that looks at (and listens to) the songs that have shaped the life and work of beloved musical artists. Arlo Parks’ sophomore album My Soft Machine takes its title from a scene in Joanna Hogg’s 2019 semi-autobiographical film The Souvenir, during which one of the two main characters describes

HBO’s newest original film REALITY isn’t just ripped from the headlines—the film’s dialogue is literally lifted from a transcript of a 2017 FBI interrogation into Reality Winner, a former Air Force member who leaked classified documents about Russia’s interference into the 2016 election to the website The Intercept. The film is directed by Tina Satter,