archiveOctober 2024

It seems Lana Del Rey isn’t the only fan of alligators these days. Like most of the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alums, Kim Kardashian joined in on the Halloween 2024 fun, becoming almost unrecognizable this year after a full body transformation into an albino alligator. In pictures shared to...

Zach Bryan announces second BST Hyde Park show: how to get tickets. (Keith Griner/Getty Images) Zach Bryan has announced a second show at London’s BST Hyde Park 2025 – and this is how to get tickets. The country star will now play two nights at the festival in a UK...

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Peoples Without The Apostrophe After spending the month of October discussing Ed Gein and the various cinematic adaptations of his crimes, including The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (listen here) and House of 1000 Corpses (listen here), Jenn and I are broadening our perspectives...

Happy Halloween, King Beat readers! There is no more appropriate day on the calendar to celebrate the legacy of Stephen King, so I’m happy for that reason that the holiday is on a Thursday this year so that I have a brand new column ready to publish. This also happens...

Singer's pre-Halloween gig in Dallas also featured her dressing up as Tinkerbell and a Playboy bunny Sabrina Carpenter celebrated Halloween early Wednesday night at her concert in Dallas, donning a variety of costumes onstage, which also included one musical surprise. During the show at the American Airlines Center, Carpenter came...

On today’s episode, Tyson and Riley are joined by Davie from Season 37 to chat about the seventh episode of Survivor 47! They talk about the strategy behind finding out that you’re a decoy vote, the tribal separations within the merged contestants, and the fun of breaking the fourth wall...

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos Channel Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in Halloween CostumesBest believe they showed up looking boo-jeweled. Indeed, our favorite morning talk show hosts like Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Kelly Clarkson and more have once again slayed their Halloween looks. On Live with Kelly and Mark, Kelly...

You can now buy a jockstrap candle modelled after odell Beckham Jr.’s jockstrap (Provided) Ever wanted to smell legendary American football star Odell Beckham Jr’s jockstrap after a game? Well, you can’t, because that’s weird – but a scented jockstrap candle is the next best thing. If you’ve ever lit...

Best Guess: Maybe quite a bit? 20%? Higher? If Penguin Random House opened its own chain of bookstores, would it work? Why I Want to Know: I asked this question before the B&N turnaround, as the industry was looking for real retail alternatives to Amazon. PRH, with its deep pockets...

Note: This review is based on the Director’s Cut. Umbrella Entertainment resurrected a forgotten flick from the mid-90s with their Blu-ray release of Lord of Illusions last year. Back in 1995, writer-director Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) ventured outside his normal horror otherworld playground to deliver this unconventional story that is...

Like all of its predecessors in the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus is full of squishy, splatty, and generally horrid bits of sound. It’s a key part of the cinematic experience that makes the new horror movie a throwback delight – and perhaps the only thing gnarlier or grosser than the...

For almost 100 years, Neiman Marcus has put out its yearly Christmas Book. It is a catalog for wealthy people with a taste for the extravagant, as well as for a dreamer who wants to let their mind wonder about what life would be like with some of the things up...

Pitch Perfect star Brittany Snow has sparked romance rumors following her recent divorce, as photographers captured the actress sharing intimate moments with a mystery man during a New York City outing on Oct. 28. While the man’s identity hasn’t been confirmed, social media clues suggest he might be creative director...

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (Nathan Morris/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The US presidential election 2024 is less than a week away and the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is almost neck-and-neck, according to recent polls which are affecting UK betting odds. Nearly 100 electoral votes are too close to...

Esquire is hopping into the Best Of book list pool with Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly with their list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 (So Far), though the “so far” parts confuses us a bit since there are only two months left to the year. Still, we...

M3GAN is more than a toy, she’s family… and now she’s joining Mezco Toyz’s Living Dead Dolls family. The Model Three Generative Android stands 10″ tall and has five points of articulation. It’s packaged in a die-cut window box. “With her watchful gaze, this killer robot doll is dressed in...

With O’ Hallows Eve just a day away, the 2024 celebrity Halloween costumes are in full swing! The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey took inspiration from the Hollywood star she always gets mistaken for – name-wise, anyway – Halle Berry. Bailey rocked Berry’s iconic outfit from 2002’s Die Another Day!Halle Berry...

Oliver Anthony wants to “light a fire that no one can really extinguish in my lifetime or after.” In a new video posted to his YouTube channel, the singer-songwriter, who became an instant star with his controversial screed “Rich Men North of Richmond,” details that he will be walking away...

Russillo opens the show with another edition of Tales From the Couch to recap Tuesday’s NBA action (0:47). Then, he’s joined by Albert Breer to discuss Anthony Richardson’s benching, share his MVP thoughts, and break down the trade deadline (15:15). Finally, actor Ed Quinn joins to share stories from his...

Elon Musk introduced his and Grimes' baby boy X Æ A-12 to the world on Twitter in May 2020. They later modified the spelling of his name in order to meet California's legal guidelines, which only permit letters from the English alphabet. Switching over to roman numerals, the parents agreed to...

Tyler, the Creator has touched on his sexuality a few times on his new album – here’s how. (Getty) Rapper Tyler, the Creator, has further touched on his sexuality in new lyrics from freshly released album Chromakopia – here’s how and when. Though Tyler, the Creator has never explicitly publicly...

Lil Prince Charmin has just released his highly anticipated music video for his new single “STR* OUTTA CANDY” worldwide. Lil Prince Charmin’ has been charming  his way into the hearts of all generations since the age of 4 years old when he began doing Covers of the King of Soul...

On paper, everything about Laika Studios’ initial theatrical release of Coraline feels a bit like a fever dream: a stop-motion animated horror film geared towards children based on Neil Gaiman’s even darker namesake novella, released in early February during the tail-end of The Great Recession, whose lead talent included Dakota...

We’re winding down to the final months of the 2024 movie schedule, and the first half of Wicked’s cinematic adaptation is poised to be, as Glinda herself might say, popular. The press cycle for Jon M. Chu’s film has been ramping up as people are starting to see the finished...

In the second portion of her two-part podcast episode on the Wade Wilson murders, Bunnie Xo puts a spotlight on 28-year-old Brandon Cuellar and 19-year-old Zane Romero, the two sons of Wilson's victim Diane Ruiz.The Dumb Blonde podcast episode, titled "Picking Up the Pieces," finds Cuellar and Romero recounting their...

Six-time Olympic medalist Suni Lee is looking back on how far she’s come since a devastating kidney disease diagnosis in 2023. The 21-year-old gymnast recently opened up to PopCulture.com about her journey to the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she helped Team USA win gold in the team final and earned...

Charvarius Ward is working through an unimaginable loss. After the San Francisco 49ers player shared that his and girlfriend Monique Cook’s 23-month-old daughter Amani Joy died, Charvarius shared a heartbreaking message to social media. Alongside a string of broken heart emojis, the 28-year-old simply wrote on his Oct. 29 Instagram...

Hugh Grant stars in the horror film Heretic. (A24) Heretic sees Hugh Grant tap into his dark side as an evil Scottish man in this horror thriller. The film, rated 15A, is the handiwork of the writers of A Quiet Place, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Heretic charts the journey...

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fairly quiet on the books news front today (and I would expect it to be this way for awhile for reasons you can probably guess and are feeling yourself. Nervous),...