AREA closed out another electric season with its Spring/Summer 2027 runway show, and the brand’s signature maximalism was on full display. Think sculptural fringe in molded plastic tubing, liquid metal wrapped bodies, and hand-cut mirrored paillettes that moved like water with every step. Standouts included a striking orange-and-white checkerboard fringe mini dress built from interlocking
Though she is known as a country music icon, Dolly Parton was a central presence at the 2026 Americana Awards and Honors Wednesday at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Parton, who died on Aug. 25, received the Lifetime Achievement Award via a pre-taped video message, and there were few dry eyes in the house as
Last night, I closed out NYFW as the red carpet host for Emerge NYFW’s fashion show, toasting to the powerhouse Dionne Williams on 15 years of Emerge NYFW. Dionne always assembles fashion industry icons for her events, so I was honored to get the chance to interview FUBU’s J. Alexander Martin, the icon Karl Kani,
NYFW might be about the runways, but the parties are where fashion, music and culture collide—and ESSENCE Fashion House brought all three. Held at Jean’s in New York City, the celebration drew a fashionable crowd including Coi Leray, Daniel Kaluuya, Leon Thomas, Claressa Shields, Key Glock, Sydney Colson, Brandon Blackwood, Bernard James, Tia Adeola, Fe
ALKEBULAN III: The Water Remembers Matt B Vitae Records 21 August 2026 The two objects that define the Middle Passage are a door and a body of water. Matt B has built his third and final ALKEBULAN album around both. It opens with “At the End of the Door”, which is not a metaphor: he
Listening to Lost Pieces, I realized that I am done with the stock-in-trade of the record reviewer: genre. Jazz is how Youn Sun Nah is usually categorized. Yet, from her debut singing with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, she has inhabited more styles with her clear, quietly powerful voice than it would be sensible to list
Sheep in the Box Hirokazu Koreeda Neon | Picturehouse 24 July 2026 (US) | 14 August 2026 (Edinburgh) Sci-fi fantasy Sheep in the Box follows Otone (Haruka Ayase) and Kensuke (Daigo Yamamoto), a grieving couple who lost their seven-year-old son, Kakeru (Kuwaki Rimu), in an accident and, two years later, still cannot move on. Director
From poetry to music to acting to filmmaking, Saul Williams doesn’t stay in one lane. You may recall seeing him last year in Ryan Coogler’s Oscar-winning smash Sinners, his directorial effort Neptune Frost, or in his debut feature, the Cannes and Sundance Audience Award-winning Slam. Maybe you encountered him through his guest features on songs
When a band lose one of their founding members, as Mastodon did with last year’s tragic departure and death of guitarist Brent Hinds, the music that comes afterwards is unavoidably haunted. Absence has its own acoustics. The amp is still there, the guitar is not, and the air seems to remember. More interesting, though, is
What To Know Marie Osmond announced hat her son Matthew is married, sharing photos and a wedding video. Fans and followers congratulated the family in the comments. Osmond, who has eight children, expressed her happiness over the occasion while enjoying a trip with her husband, Steve Craig. Marie Osmond just revealed her son Matthew’s marriage
What To Know Season 12 of Halloween Baking Championship premiered with 10 bakers competing for a $25,000 prize. Host John Henson, who recently married judge Stephanie Boswell, emphasized the show’s family-like atmosphere. Henson reflected on the show’s longevity, the joy of working with talented bakers, and teased more spooky, creative challenges and surprises in upcoming
What To Know Bari Weiss and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski are engaged in a power struggle over the network’s editorial direction. Sources say the conflict has left CBS News staff feeling caught in the middle and uncertain about the network’s future. The outcome may hinge on ratings for key programs like 60 Minutes, CBS
What To Know At the 2026 Emmy Awards, Allison Janney expressed heartfelt support for Savannah Guthrie and her family amid the ongoing investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. Savannah thanked Janney for her kind words on Today. Janney took home the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series at the Monday, September 14, awards
What To Know Matt Jones revealed on the NCIS: Partners & Probies podcast how his character’s death came about. Jones also reflected on his time as Dorneget, recalling the challenges of his first major MTAC scene. Dorney! Over a decade since his character, Special Agent Ned Dorneget, was killed off of NCIS, Matt Jones took
Ahh, the 1970s. It gave us regrettable ubiquity like avocado-green kitchen appliances, the gas-guzzling Oldsmobile Cutlass, the reverse-heeled Earth Shoe, fondue pots, shag carpet, leisure suits, waterbeds, mullets, and a brand of soft-in-the-head and softer-on-the-ears rock music that was a 360-degree turn from the prior decade. It was a laundry list of sins that cultural
Twenty years after Fashion Bomb Daily first started chronicling style, the brand threw the party to prove it: the 6th annual Bomb Fashion Show, presented by Bask & Lather Co., Belo and Co Records, and Beyond the Bleacherz filled the room with star power, fashion, and energy. The evening brought together style, music, and community
Shaun Tan is a bestselling and Academy Award-winning author-artist of The Arrival, among many others. His newest graphic novel is Hometown, out tomorrow from Levine Querido Books. Below, he discusses 20 years of his career creating art about belonging. Twenty years have passed between creating The Arrival and Hometown, and, as in real life, some
Horror has become an increasingly recognisable theme within the Irish online slots market, with developers drawing inspiration from vampires, haunted locations, supernatural legends, zombies and classic gothic imagery. In 2026, there is a wide variety of horror-related titles that have become increasingly available on online casino platforms, differing from one another through both the visuals
May is a month of long-awaited returns. In the month’s best metal, stalwarts of the old-school death metal ethos, Funebrarum, return after 17 years, still radiating the same cryptic and decadent stench. On the genre’s more primal side, Necroccultus also return two decades after their excellent debut, Encircling the Mysterious Necrorevalation, with a frenzied and
When I first set out to compile a list of new books by Latine authors to kick off Latin Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), I had a mind to include a variety of genres. But, being a seasonal reader who is currently reveling in all the spooky and deliciously gothic releases coming out this month,
Time to break out the Kleenex: these are romance books that will make you cry. I stand by the belief that in the bounds of romance, with a Happily Ever After (HEA) guaranteed, sadness is cathartic. Readers know that no matter what characters go through during the novel, by the end, they will be loved
While I’ve spent the last decade writing and reading all things crime books for the Unusual Suspects newsletter, I’ve never stopped reading all the other genres. I love mysteries and thrillers, but my first love will always be stories, and I never want to miss a great one by remaining boxed into only one genre
Intersex. The “I” in LGBTQIA+. How I was born. Intersex is an umbrella term that describes a number of biological variations that place people not neatly in the male or female binary. These variations might be phenotypic, meaning outwardly presenting on the body. They can also be genotypic, meaning that they affect the chromosomes of
Stonefruit Studio, an imprint of Sourcebooks In a world where birth order determines your fate, Firstborn soldier Bryn Ruelle must survive the Long Night by proving she can kill—or face exile. But when she uncovers a plot to kidnap the Lastborn, including her younger sister, Bryn must risk everything to uncover the truth. Forced to
Shaun Tan is a bestselling and Academy Award-winning author-artist of The Arrival, among many others. His newest graphic novel is Hometown, out tomorrow from Levine Querido Books. Below, he discusses 20 years of his career creating art about belonging. Twenty years have passed between creating The Arrival and Hometown, and, as in real life, some
Is it fair to describe Will Maclean’s Solace House as an off-campus novel? It arrives as one of the year’s most anticipated works of horror, following on from Maclean’s debut, the widely admired lockdown hit The Apparition Phase (2020). Solace House contains themes that will be familiar to fans of stories centering on young people
Everything must change. That’s a cliché, but it is true. Nothing stays the same. The theme of Teddy Thompson’s latest release, his first full-length album of original material in six years, plays on transformation. Ironically, he doesn’t sound that much different from the way he did on his earlier albums. He still has the same
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, today revealed a chilling first look at its highly anticipated Shudder Original film, V.H.S. Mixtape, set to premiere on October 9, 2026. The movie cranks the signature found-footage horror up to eleven with an electrifying new anthology where music and sound become the
Vernon Wells joins an already impressive cast of Hollywood and horror icons in the next chapter of the Witchcraft franchise. The veteran actor, best known for his iconic roles in The Road Warrior, Commando, and Weird Science, is joining Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light as an Executive Producer and part of the cast. For fans
Lil Durk was acquitted of all charges Friday after a three-week trial where prosecutors accused him of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot and defense lawyers attacked the credibility of the government’s cooperating witnesses, calling them admitted killers who implicated the Grammy-winning rapper to avoid life sentences. The musician, born Durk Banks, hung his head and started
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