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Despite a lead up that included a fair amount of drama about nominations, the 2019 Latin Grammys on Thursday night passed without much incident. There were a number of performances, including from Rosalia, Bad Bunny, and Sech, the Afro-Panamanian…

Taylor Swift has a rumored history of being a little petty when it comes to the celebrity feuds she’s been involved with, which is well within her right, of course. It just means that outside of her loyal fanbase, not many people would think of…

On Tuesday, novelist Sarah Dessen, who the New York Times has called a “best-seller machine,” got very upset that someone doesn’t like her books. When a fairly innocuous quote about Dessen appeared in a local news story out of Aberdeen, South…

Did you successfully log in to your Disney + account? When the streaming platform launched on this week, 10 million people reportedly subscribed — causing the service to crash for a number of users. But now that we’re past the first day jitters,…

Alexa Demie doesn’t realize she's been credited with rescuing #HotGirlSummer. A fan turned her into a meme in August, posting “Maddy Perez saved hot girl summer” on Twitter with a mashup of clips featuring Demie's character in the HBO teen drama…

Steven Grade is a five-time Jeopardy! champion, a semi-finalist in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, and a true lover of knowledge. He is one of the contestants involved in turning this year’s Tournament of Champions episode into a fundraiser…

In a just world, we wouldn’t be forced to contend with photos of Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lopez’s extremely perfect bone structure in the same photo. It is simply too much beauty to be contained in one image. Before 2019, Lopez and Pattinson…

The streaming wars are starting to look a lot like the ‘90s. Disney+ arrived on the scene on Monday, offering as many Disney Channel Originals as millennials can stand to binge. Apple+ has a reboot of Ghostwriter, the ‘90s PBS show about a literary…

On February 26, 1995, Selena Quintanilla performed “Como La Flor” at Houston’s Astrodome. The video of the moment has been viewed on YouTube 99 million times, and it is the setting of the beginning and end of the 1997 biopic about her, released a…

I’m feeling a little bewildered by all the papal content coming our way these days. There’s The New Pope, which is a spinoff of The Young Pope — the HBO show starring Jude Law as a pontiff with a penchant for... Speedos? In the new series, he’s…

Alex Trebek’s public battle with pancreatic cancer has been a painful and emotional experience to witness. The beloved host, who has done 8,000 episodes of Jeopardy over the last 35 years, first shared his diagnosis in March of last year. In…

After an endless marketing blitz, Disney+ is here, and one of the most notable things about the streaming service is that subscribers have access to the entire “Disney Vault” — a catalogue containing nearly every movie made since the dawn of the…

There’s a breezy, beige-toned cafe in Northern California that, in 2012, was frequented by a middle-aged transgender woman. I know that because I would look for her every time I was there, mooching complimentary bread and purportedly doing my math…

Austria won’t be allowed to compete in the Oscars this year, according to an exclusive story by The Hollywood Reporter. The country’s entry, Joy, was disqualified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because “only 33% of the dialogue…

For weeks, it was assumed, perhaps foolishly, that Frank Ocean would be the surprise headliner for Tyler, The Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw festival. Given Frank's recent activity — including the release of two songs and his PrEP+ parties in New York —…

“Perception is reality, and the truth is not.” Imelda Marcos, the subject of documentarian Lauren Greenfield’s new movie, The Kingmaker, is many things: erstwhile first lady and congresswoman of the Philippines, current Guinness World Record holder…

Frank Ocean, a man of great talent, and often great mystery, has been pretty busy this year. He’s thrown parties, he’s released music, he’s teased even more music, he’s even written some blogs. With everything else that has been going on (there’s…

If we're using war as a metaphor for the glut of streaming services being thrust upon us this year, then right now we're at a critical moment. This winter, you’ll have a surplus of options to choose from if you’re willing to pay the various fees to…

At ComplexCon, in Long Beach, California a conversation about politics and power accompanied the unveiling of a collaboration between the iconic brand FUBU and Black Lives Matter Global Network. The partnership is attached to BLM's #WhatMatters2020…