archiveFebruary 2022

Despite Dave Chappelle ending his previous comedy special deal with Netflix on a controversial note, the streaming service has announced a new four-special series featuring comedians handpicked by Chappelle. The series, dubbed Chappelle’s Home Team, will premiere Feb. 28th with an episode spotlighting the stand-up comic known as Earthquake. In...

Donald Trump’s lawyer has insisted that he should be considered a “protected class” because he’s a Republican. On Thursday (17 February), judge Arthur Engoron ruled after a two-hour hearing that New York attorney general Letitia James will be able to question Trump and his two eldest children – Ivanka and...

Earlier this month, we reported on an appeal sent to the Walla Walla, Washington, school district, following the Library Materials Committee decision to keep four books on shelves. The board met last week to consider the appeal and agreed to keep The Bluest Eye, All Boys Aren’t Blue, Gender Queer,...

Merchandise is a big part of any theme park strategy. Whether it’s a simple t-shirt or a coffee mug or something more elaborate and expensive, people want to bring home a piece of their vacation that will allow them to remember the experience. In the Wizarding World of Harry Potter,...

Hours after Kanye West announced that Donda 2 will only be available to stream on his Stem Player, the rapper revealed that he has sold over 6,200 devices — good for $1.3 million — in the past 24 hours. Along with sharing the sales data, he leveled some sharp criticism...

The Alien franchise is headed to the small screen with a TV series in the works over at FX, and FX’s John Landgraf has teased some new details in a chat with Deadline today. For starters, Landgraf reiterates that Ellen Ripley will NOT be making an appearance in the series, which...

Oh, baby! Adriana Lima is making her TikTok debut in a big way. In her first-ever video shared to the app, the 40-year-old supermodel announced on Feb. 18 that she's expecting her third child. Set to Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher," the clip opened with Adriana explaining to...

While Lady Gaga is sadly not in the running for an Oscar this year, we can at least relive her House of Gucci performance at home, now that the film is available digitally. (And it will soon be out on DVD on Blu-Ray on Feb. 22, if you still have...

Photo by James Devaney/GC Images. The latest men's grooming trends to snag now. By Megan Kirkwood Date February 18, 2022 Facebook Twitter Gone are the days that male celebs would shrink away from a little men’s grooming such as some well-placed concealer or hairspray before stepping onto the red carpet....

Jake Blount captured the bluegrass world's attention with his 2020 album Spider Tales, a deeply somber album of instrumentals and unearthly songs that cements the work of Black artists in the old-time canon. Today, The Boot is excited to share the exclusive premiere of Blount's latest recording.Blount is as inquisitive as he...

It’s the Sixties, and Midge is back from standup life on the road in the newest installment of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. “Every single show, I’m gonna say exactly what’s on my mind,” Rachel Brosnahan’s Midge explains to her manager, Susie, played by Alex Borstein, at a diner in a...

The viral video reportedly shows Bipul Singh, principal of Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, in Athens, Georgia, stabbing the balloons. (YouTube/ Jeffrey Jackson) A viral video has shown the principal of a Georgia elementary school stabbing rainbow balloons with scissors after they were sent to support a young student. Oglethorpe Avenue...

Jamie Lee Curtis is arguably the greatest scream queen of all time. If you don’t believe that's true, at least acknowledge she’s been doing it longer than anyone else. The original Halloween is often credited as the inciting beginning to the Golden Age of slasher films in the late ‘70s...

R. Kelly and his new lawyer Jennifer Bonjean filed motions late Thursday, which ask he be acquitted, or at the very least, for him to be given a new trial after the singer’s conviction in New York federal court of racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child and kidnapping in September....