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Harvey's out; will Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski be the next to go?

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to revoke the lifetime membership of Harvey Weinstein in the wake of dozens of sexual misconduct allegations — immediately prompting questions about whether Cosby and Polanski will be able to retain their memberships.

The decision to expel the executive came from an emergency meeting of the academy's 54-member board, which includes Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg... Читать дальше...

The Smithsonian revealed on Friday the two artists set to paint official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, and the former first couple's choices are inspired. 

Hackers are winning. This summer, they infiltrated HBO and stole unreleased material. Last month, they breached Equifax — the consumer credit reporting agency — and gathered information on over 140 million Americans. But hackers also raid places that seem a bit closer to home: the places we buy burgers, drink beer, and shop for refrigerators. 

Twelve years ago, Courtney Love was asked if she had any advice for women considering a move to Hollywood. She issued a warning about Harvey Weinstein.

As wildfires rage across northern California, a group of low-paid firefighters is on the front lines. 

Spoiler alert: This post contains plot details for Blade Runner 2049.

Blade Runner 2049 is a cinematic marvel full of haunting, vivid, messy messages about what it means to be human. 

As a solemn odyssey through the anxieties of modern man, 2049 tells the story of a futuristic capitalist society finally reckoning with its systemic oppression of mother nature and, by extension, women.

Don't get me wrong: Blade Runner 2049 is far from a bastion of feminist cinema. 

Many... Читать дальше...

Britney Spears is truly living her best life.

The proof? This clip Britney tweeted on Friday, which shows the singer 1) painting beautiful flowers, 2) listening to Mozart, 3) sporting luxurious loungewear, and 4) sitting on a lush terrace.

SEE ALSO: We've been underestimating Kesha for way too long

"Sometimes you just gotta play!!!!!!" she wrote.

Reader, I screamed.

And to the surprise of absolutely no one, the internet is with me on this. After all, it's Britney. Читать дальше...

The DC Comics event Dark Knights: Metal was meant to shake things up in a visceral way. As co-publisher Dan DiDio said in a New York Comic Con panel last weekend, DC "could not sit back and rest on [its] legacy."

Bob Weinstein—brother of Harvey and cofounder of Miramax and its successor, The Weinstein Company—has faced lots of questions over the past week. 

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After a slow start in the early 1970s, New York glam-metal band KISS rose to stardom after adopting their signature makeup and stage personas.

The Starchild, Demon, Catman, and Space Ace achieved massive commercial success not only through their albums and concerts but through their characters, which they licensed to comic books, costumes, toys, board games and other merchandise.

In the spring of 1980, just after the release of their eighth studio album Unmasked... Читать дальше...

In the New York Times, actress Mayim Bialik weighed in on the Harvey Weinstein saga by detailing her own experience with the culture of Hollywood — one that differs from that of many of her peers.

Before the first official day of fall arrived, we were already bombarded with every pumpkin-flavored item in the market. Pumpkin is the favorite that all the other vegetables and fruits hate this time of year. What about the other fall produce trying to make their comeback after the summer’s heat? 

The sheriff's department in Sonoma County, California released bodycam footage showing officers driving through a flame-ridden neighborhood on Sunday in search of residents trapped by wildfire.

Jack Dorsey got the message. Probably.

All day Friday, many women refused to tweet in protest of Twitter's decision to suspend actress Rose McGowan's account as she spoke out against Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood. 

Late Friday night, Dorsey — Twitter's co-founder and CEO — responded to the #WomenBoycottTwitter movement. Protesters compared the company's enforcement of a 12-hour suspension after McGowan tweeted a private phone number to Twitter's ongoing failure to police racist... Читать дальше...

AirPods have ruined the headphone-sharing game, and I for one refuse to stay silent while decades of adorable eye-gazing, face-bumping, and shoulder-resting memories fade away.

Image: Courtesy of Katsu Naito & TBW Books

In 1983, 18-year-old Katsu Naito arrived in New York City from his small hometown of Maebashi, Japan.

With little English, he worked as a chef in a Japanese restaurant to earn his green card, and in his spare time unwound by studying Diane Arbus photo books in a SoHo bookstore.

By 1988, he had settled in Harlem, a neighborhood still clawing its way out of the economic devastation of the 1970s.

He took up the habit of wandering the neighborhood with his camera in hand... Читать дальше...

When multiple wildfires began raging early Monday morning in towns an hour north of San Francisco, residents fled their homes with little more than the clothes they were wearing and whatever valuables they could grab. 

Luana Cobb and her son Dan were asleep when a wildfire blew into Coddingtown Mobile Estates in Santa Rosa, California, early Monday morning. 

The most delightful of all Halloween crafts, jack-o'-lantern carving, has a less delightful side effect: an abundance of pumpkin guts. 

Bitcoin is on an amazing bull run. The cryptocurrency easily surpassed $5,000 per coin and is currently trading at about $5,500—and many are wondering why. 

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The United States of America is swinging – culturally, legally, and of course, politically. 

Tesla just made some drastic changes to its workforce.

The automaker fired between 400 and 700 workers from its south Bay Area headquarters and production plant this week, the San Jose Mercury first reported. The company claims the employees were fired for subpar job performance rather than laid off.

"Like all companies, Tesla conducts an annual performance review during which a manager and employee discuss the results that were achieved, as well as how those results were achieved... Читать дальше...

Remarkable photos reveal how badly California's wineries have been damaged in wildfires that have burned tens of thousands of acres of wine country since Sunday.