2015 was a year not unlike many others when it comes to race in America. In a lot of ways, it felt as though the worlds of white and black America couldn’t be further apart. Racial injustices, insults and aggressions from white people were as routine as the many times black folks banded together to […]
On Aug. 30, Miley Cyrus finished her hosting duties of the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards by playing a set with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne and then announcing that her new album — a collaboration between the two artists — was immediately available for free online. After the middling turn at hosting the annual […]
Law enforcement in Pennsylvania released Bill Cosby’s mug shot Wednesday. The disgraced comedian turned himself in to face a charge of on the case against Cosby here. Also on HuffPost: – This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for […]
Bran Stark is coming back to “Game of Thrones” — quite literally in a big way. The second-youngest of the Stark children was off-screen for the entirety of Season 5. But he wasn’t inactive. While his older sisters Arya and Sansa were training with the Faceless Men and Littlefinger, respectively, the Three-Eyed Raven was teaching […]
We’ve all been there: Sitting on the couch with our parents, watching the latest blockbuster, when all of a sudden a sex scene plays out on screen. Regardless of how old you are, you can’t help but feel embarrassed as your cheeks get red and you start feeling hot. You don’t dare look at your […]
The people have voted, and Kanye West is “on a galaxy that haters cannot visit.” On a bracket of 64 style icons that included Tom Ford, Brad Pitt and Idris Elba, GQ’s Most Stylish Man Showdown 2015 came down to Yeezy and model Lucky Blue-Smith — whose Instafans, while vigilant, just couldn’t outvote “the almighty […]
May the Force be on the dance floor! In a new video posted by YouTube stars Postmodern Jukebox, a group of performers who record jazzy covers of modern songs, the group gets in on the “Star Wars” hype. In the video, called “The Tap Awakens,” the group transforms the franchise’s epic theme music into a […]
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” may have only been out in theaters for less than two weeks, but it’s already nudged overall ticket sales to another record. The film’s $571.4 million domestic gross has propelled overall North American ticket sales for 2015 to $11 billion. This figure makes 2015 the highest-earning year in domestic ticket […]
The legend about The Flaming Lips’ first-ever performance is that the band stole instruments from a local church and used them to play at a bar known for its cross-dressing clientele — a suitably fitting origin for the psychedelic band that prides itself on not playing straight down the middle. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly true. […]
Aretha Franklin is a living legend, so naturally, when she took the stage at last night’s Kennedy Center Honors presentation, the crowd went wild. As soon as the iconic singer, 73, stepped foot on stage clad in a floor-length fur coat (which she clearly wore just so she could take it off in dramatic fashion), […]
