Новости за 11.06.2020

BTS just released Map Of The Soul: 7, its latest Korean album, back in February, but the enormously popular band with the enormously enthusiastic fan base is already preparing a special follow-up. Titled Map Of The Soul: 7 ~The Journey~, the album is being specifically released for the Japanese market and will be the…

It’s been nearly three months since the world united to laugh at Gal Gadot and her famous friends’ tone-deaf rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine” and the celebs would once again like your attention.

Country music trio Lady Antebellum has decided to change its name to Lady A, having apparently just gotten around to looking up what the word “antebellum” means. For those who don’t know, it’s usually used to refer to the pre-war American South, as in pre-Civil War, as in when slavery was still legal. That means the…

Pretty much everyone has some kind of vocal tic, some sort of repeated phrase or word they use without necessarily even realizing it in their day-to-day conversations. Pointing it out in each other is generally considered an asshat thing to do, but that doesn’t change how damn annoying it can be for all of us. On that…

In The King Of Staten Island, Marisa Tomei plays the much-maligned mother of Pete Davidson’s slacker 24-year-old character, also named Pete. While Pete lost his firefighter dad as a kid, she equally lost her husband, and is dealing with how to launch two kids into the world with limited patience, resources, and help.

Back at the end of April, we reported that the Dixie Chicks has quietly postponed the release of Gaslighter, the group’s first new album in 14 years and one that would’ve marked the launch of a new comeback effort. The Dixie Chicks didn’t offer an explanation for the delay at the time, leading us to recklessly…

Compared to every other major awards show, the rules for the Grammy Awards have always been a little complicated (and yes, we know it’s a big compliment to refer to the Grammys as a major awards show). Chalk it up to the way music consumption and production have changed over the years, but it’s always been unclear…

The world is growing suspicious of the subversives living on Sesame Street.

Love, Simon was an undeniable milestone for queer representation in film, albeit one that also came with a lot of concessions attached. It was the first major studio rom-com that centered on a gay teen and his love story, but Simon’s journey was also largely devoid of any mess—a neatly packaged rom-com about a wealthy…

In eras past, humanity bent its will toward the creation of towering monuments and intricately detailed art. Now, bored of big statues and cool pictures, we’ve turned our attention toward the no less important work of ranking every single chalkboard joke from The Simpsons’ 31 seasons.

The words “Artemis Fowl” make up a significant chunk of the dialogue in Artemis Fowl. The title character, a child criminal mastermind introduced in a series of YA fantasy novels by Irish author Eoin Colfer, has few defining traits beyond how often everyone refers to him by his full name. Under Kenneth Branagh’s…

Since Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling continues to voluntarily air out her transphobia, some of the stars of the hit franchise have felt compelled to pick up the slack and speak up in support of the trans community. Earlier in the week—after Rowling’s first round of anti-trans comments, which is a sentence we are…

On the new season of Queer Eye, the Fab 5 once again convene to make all sorts of different peoples’ lives better. This time, they’re in Philadelphia, making over everyone from a priest struggling with his coming out story to a young woman with a broken down RV and a dog grooming dream. They’re touching the lives of…

The coronavirus pandemic has made just about every aspect of life different than it was before, and this extends, as New York City Health details in an important PSA, to having sex. As posted in a tweet by Josh Barro, city officials have arrived (not at all prematurely) with a set of guidelines meant to encourage…

Wayne Coyne loves his bubbles. Anybody who’s seen the Flaming Lips perform live in the last several years—or his new music video for the Kacey Musgraves-featuring “Flowers Of Neptune 6"—have seen the singer serenade from within an inflatable bubble. Now, what with the state of our poisoned world, Coyne’s gone and…

A rare discount on Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro, an Amazon Echo Dot bundle deal, a DC Bombshell Death Statue collectible figurine, a pre-order sale on Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, a Lazmac inflatable air lounger, and a Rubbermaid Food container markdown lead Thursday’s best deals.

Wedding Crashers’ David Dobkin is the filmmaker behind Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, a new Netflix comedy starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams as wannabe pop superstars in Iceland who luck their way onto the world’s biggest song competition. Today, following the release of a supremely …

Not every artist can boast of a debut as widely heralded as Mariah Carey’s self-titled 1990 album. At only 20 years old, the Songbird Supreme quickly established her confident, octave-defying voice as one for the ages with “Vision Of Love” and “Someday.” We’re still hard-pressed to pick a more essential Mariah…

Two years into their reign as it-couple king and queen of teen pop, Britney Spears and *NSYNC’s Justin Timberlake arrived at the 2001 American Music Awards in what would become two of the most iconic ensembles in red-carpet history, both of them in head-to-toe denim. Her Kurt and Bart patchwork bustier gown was…

Fans of the most familiar version of Perry Mason—Raymond Burr in the nine-season black-and-white CBS series and in several TV movies afterward—may be taken aback by HBO’s crafting of the world’s greatest defense attorney. Matthew Rhys’ Mason is slight (Burr was tall and foreboding, with shoulders a linebacker would…

The original Monsters, Inc. was a big hit for Pixar, showcasing what the studio could do when given free rein to create an entire world for its characters to play in—a gift first teased with the big city in A Bug’s Life, and later spotlighted in WALL-E and (for better or worse) Cars. People loved Monsters, Inc. and…

Stacey Abrams infamously (and barely) lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race after the Georgia GOP—led by eventual winner Brian Kemp—oversaw massive voter suppression, especially of minority communities. (That Kemp was the Secretary of State in charge of overseeing elections at the time only made things that much…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, June 11. All times are Eastern.

Fun fact: If you’re the kind of person who’s ever gotten into an argument on the internet, and your first, second, or third impulse was to look up the dictionary definition of a word being used in that conversation, then slap it into the thread as though you were making some sort of definitive point, you are—and we’re…

Wow, is it the end of season two already? Whether it’s because of its lightning-fast pacing, or, you know, 2020 doing its 2020 thing, the second season of What We Do In The Shadows didn’t seem as long as the first. That isn’t a dig at the first season—again, there’s a lot going on in the world right now—but it does…