It remains unclear if the North America’s largest music festival, rescheduled four times since 2020, will go on due to the Omicron surgeKanye West, Billie Eilish and Harry Styles are expected to headline the 21st Coachella music festival in April, Vari…
Stephen Colbert on Omicron school closures: ‘Release strategic reserve of mothers-in-law’
Stephen Colbert discussed the Omicron surge and Apple’s record $3tn valuationSeth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon cancelled their week of shows on Tuesday after both tested positive for Covid-19, leaving Stephen Colbert as the only late-night host on the air, …
Mass: the movie that dares to explore the unimaginable pain of school shootings
The devastating drama, by writer-director Fran Kranz, bridges the depressing familiarity and unthinkable grief of mass shootings in the US by focusing on the personalIt’s understandable if your first question of the movie Mass, set six years in the aft…
‘It feels like the start of something’: Reginald Dwayne Betts on his groundbreaking prison library project
The lawyer, poet and recent MacArthur genius grant recipient talks about his initiative Freedom Reads which offer inmates access to books across the USWhen Reginald Dwayne Betts fell in love with poetry as a young man, his reading options were limited….
Colbert on Arizona audit: ‘They hired Maga fans, and even they couldn’t say No 45 won’
Late-night hosts talk Arizona’s GOP-led election ‘audit’, which reaffirmed Biden’s win, and Rudy Giuliani’s Fox News issuesStephen Colbert mocked the humiliating conclusion of a partisan effort to overturn the 2020 election in Arizona, which concluded …
First trailer lands for Netflix’s explosive Britney Spears documentary
Film, directed by Erin Lee Carr and due 28 September, will explore legal and ethical issues of singer’s conservatorshipThe first full trailer of Britney vs Spears, the Netflix documentary by Erin Lee Carr that will explore the legal battle over the pop…
Emmys 2021: Ted Lasso and The Crown triumph
The big night for TV saw triumphs for Brits – including Olivia Colman, Kate Winslet and Michaela Coel – yet a diversity problem remainsThe 73rd Emmy awards mostly stuck to the predicted script on Sunday, celebrating favorites Ted Lasso, The Queen’s Gam…
‘It’s very culty’: the bizarre billion-dollar downfall of fashion company LuLaRoe
LuLaRich, the Amazon docuseries on a multi-level marketing company, is a four-part dive into greed and faux-girlboss idealsRoberta Blevins first heard about the leggings in the fall of 2015, in a post by a fellow member of a motherhood-themed Facebook …
Samantha Bee brands supreme court ‘gutless monsters’ for Texas abortion decision
Late-night hosts discuss Texas’s six-week abortion ban, flooding in New York and Covid’s new Mu variantSamantha Bee tore into the new abortion law in Texas, the most restrictive in the nation, on Wednesday evening – a week after the supreme court, in a…
The D’Amelio Show: what do you do with TikTok fame?
The new reality show on Charli and Dixie D’Amelio attempts to transfer one kind of gargantuan fame into another with mixed results“I get asked why I’m famous a lot,” says Charli D’Amelio, the most followed person on TikTok, early in the third episode o…