archiveAugust 2025

Leaning into the bit, the 22-year-old responded, “It was cold outside today, so I think that was you know the main reason. I was focused on hitting spots. I didn’t hit those spots, so maybe I should just serve bigger. Something that I’ll definitely work on next time.” Then, he...

Jinkx Monsoon is manifesting playing X-Men villain Mystique. (Getty/Marvel) Two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and Broadway superstar Jinkx Monsoon has shared the moving reason why she wants to play Mystique in a new X-Men project. Speaking on Vulture’s Good One podcast, Jinkx Monsoon revealed that she wants to play the...

Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship. The guide to 56 tasks you...

PHL Collective and publisher GameMill Entertainment have unleashed their puzzle adventure game Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek today on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam. Featuring an all-new exclusive Goosebumps story, players step into the shoes of Sloane Spencer, a young teen caught in a...

The latest Austin Butler movie, Caught Stealing, hit the 2025 movie schedule this weekend, and it did something that I didn’t expect: it made me nostalgic. I am not, by nature, particularly nostalgic. In fact, all the throwbacks to Gen X culture lately have driven me a little nuts, even...

A judge tossed a case, finding no probable cause on Saturday after Florida police arrested a man as part of an ongoing standoff over art at a crosswalk memorializing the 2016 mass shooting at the LGBTQ Pulse nightclub in Orlando, WESH reported. The man has been released from jail.  Florida...

“I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons,” rapper says Snoop Dogg has addressed the controversial comments he made over his response to his grandson’s questions about a same-sex couple in Lightyear, and the backlash that ensued. “My bad,” he wrote in a comment on...

Abbott Elementary’s next special episode has been revealed. It seems the titular fictional elementary school will be taking a field trip to a Phillies baseball game. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the entire cast, consisting of creator Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter,...

Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber are taking their romance courtside. Indeed, the couple stepped out for a PDA-packed outing at The League X Blem basketball tournament event, which the Grammy winner cohosted, in Los Angeles. In photos from the Aug. 28 event, the two—who tied the knot in September 2018—could...

Alisha Hawthorne with her family in Lightyear. (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) The writer of Pixar’s Lightyear has defended the film’s LGBTQ+ inclusion after rapper Snoop Dogg took issue with the fact it featured a lesbian couple. The 2022 film, which sees Chris Evans voice the titular Buzz Lightyear of...

First up was Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun, which I read for the September 2nd episode of All the Books. It’s a sapphic romance set in the Camino trail. I enjoyed it, though Here We Go Again is still my favourite. Then I picked up Lu and Ren’s...

When it comes to watching what has hit and missed among 2025 movie releases, it does feel like this year at the box office has continued to show a bigger tide shift among moviegoers than what we might have seen five to ten years ago. For one, a Marvel movie...

Singer and this year's most nominated artist makes return to VMAs stage for first time since 2020 Covid-era performance Lady Gaga will return to the MTV Video Music Awards on September 7 for her first performance on the show in five years. MTV announced the addition of Gaga — the...

Season 1 of Duck Dynasty: The Revival has wrapped, and the Robertson family is already filming Season 2.In a new interview, Bella Robertson open up about whether late patriarch Phil Robertson will appear in the new episodes."All my favorite is in Season 2, we had so much fun," Robertson tells Taste...