Football players aren’t the only ones who disagree with how NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has handled the Tom Brady situation. Two polls released Thursday found that more Americans than not disapprove of Goodell’s “Deflategate” decisions and think the NFL investigation was unfair. In the Emerson College poll, 41 percent of those surveyed disapprove of how […]

Not content with a classic father-daughter dance for her quinceañera party, a Houston teen decided instead to enlist her dad for a surprise dance routine. And the duo ended up impressing more than just their guests. Jasmine Cortinas and her father Leonardo, a retired U.S. Marine, performed the routine at her quinceañera party in June. […]

This week, Yi-Fen Chou, author of a poem entitled “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve,” which appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, was revealed to be a nom de plume — for Michael Derrick Hudson. The shocking nom de plume reveal has a long, storied position in the annals of […]

After five years of providing a platform for independent African-American filmmakers through her grassroots film distribution association, African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM), Ava DuVernay announced on Tuesday that it will relaunch as ARRAY in order to expand its focus for filmmakers she sees as too often overlooked. Inspired by her experiences meeting filmmakers across […]

This post is part of a weekly series celebrating #ThrowbackThursday with reflections of our favorite childhood memories, past pop culture moments and more! It’s been nearly 20 years since “Kenan and Kel” aired — and the two remain Nickelodeon royalty. Kenan Thompson is keeping busy as an actor on “Saturday Night Live” and Kel Mitchell […]

Although she’s enjoying the best year of her career, things haven’t been easy for Anna Muylaert. The 51-year-old filmmaker from São Paulo, who directed and wrote the dramatic comedy “Que Horas Ela Volta?” (“The Second Mother” is its English-language title), has faced the dark side of success: criticism. In this case, machismo criticism. Once again, […]

GIF: Gutsy Dodgers fan does rotating double middle finger salute to Angels fans in Anaheim pic.twitter.com/9LZM659hRk — CJ Fogler (@cjzero) September 10, 2015 Anyone who is actually from Los Angeles, like real Los Angeles, knows that the Angels and everything associated with them are the worst. Seriously, how can you call yourself the Los Angeles […]

Contrary to popular belief, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez are definitely still friends. You might even say they’re cool for the summer. Earlier this year, Lovato unfollowed Gomez on Twitter, giving Semi fans everywhere a massive heart attack. To make matters worse, she posted a cryptic tweet that may or may not have been directed […]

In the riveting 2010 documentary “Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work,” the film’s namesake comedy legend shows off the physical embodiment of her life’s work: an enormous filing cabinet that contains every joke she’d ever written, neatly catalogued on index cards and sorted alphabetically by topic. Now, one year after Rivers’s death and two months […]

In an emotional interview, Vice President Joe Biden spoke candidly on Thursday about the recent death of his son Beau, extensively discussing his grief and how it has made it difficult for him to commit to a potential presidential bid in 2016 despite growing calls for him to run. “I don’t think any man or […]