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
What To Know Tony winner Adrienne Warren joins The Gilded Age Season 4, debuting November 1 on HBO. TV Insider exclusively reveals Warren’s character and how she’s connected to Peggy Scott in our 2026 Fall Preview. The Gilded Age adds another Tony winner to its midst with Adrienne Warren, set to make her debut in
Welcome to the Q&A with longtime TV critic — also known to some TV fans as their “TV therapist” — Matt Roush, who’ll try to address whatever you love, loathe, are confused or frustrated or thrilled by in today’s vast TV landscape. (We know background music is too loud, it’s the most frequent complaint, but
As the Statue of Liberty finally arrives in full, Peggy Scott’s career gets the spotlight in Season 4 of HBO’s historical drama. In Season 1 of The Gilded Age, the first piece of the Statue of Liberty quietly arrived in America. HBO‘s historical drama faithfully recreated the hand and torch that were displayed in Madison
What To Know Martin Short lost the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Only Murders in the Building. Short humorously tore up his acceptance speech on camera as Steve Martin shared the moment on Instagram. Despite multiple nominations for Only Murders, Short has never won an acting Emmy. Martin Short lost
There’s a fabulously loaded moment in Bouchra when a seductive mother bear confesses to the title character, an anthropomorphic coyote, “I love your chipped tooth, and the way you lick it all the time.” A tight close-up shows us one of Bouchra’s upper canines, which we’ve seen protruding sharply from her jaw in myriad shots
What To Know Rebecca Robertson’s four-year-old daughter, Holland, was rushed to the hospital after developing high fever. The Duck Dynasty star revealed her daughter suffered hallucinations and seizure-like symptoms. Robertson shared that Holland is now recovering well and thanked her supporters. Duck Dynasty star Rebecca Robertson has had a traumatic week as her four-year-old daughter
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
Jesse Malin’s memoir Almost Grown is a quintessential New York story, filled with chance encounters with legends such as Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone. It’s also the story of an artist growing up in New York City, discovering his identity, and his journey from hardcore to punk to singer-songwriter, rubbing elbows with Bruce Springsteen. Of
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
There is no logical reason for Chuck Klosterman to have written Rock* – A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music. That is one reason I’m glad he did. Klosterman says as much himself. He describes the book as something he was compelled to write because it was fun, partly because he misses the days
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


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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
Until recently, my personal familiarity with the music of Phillip Golub was limited to two brilliant, unique records he made on Joseph Branciforte’s forward-thinking label, greyfade. Filters (2022) is a hypnotic collection of loops for solo piano, while Loop 7 (2025) is an extended piece created with midi-controlled Disklavier pianos. A move from those concepts
Tonight is The Bomb Fashion Show! I’ve been so busy preparing that I’ve fallen behind with posting myself. But my NYFW officially kicked off with one of my favorites, Christian Siriano. The team was kind enough to sit me next to icons like Brandy, Tiffany Haddish, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billy Porter: For the occasion, I