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Taylor Swift Really Seems to Have a Lot to Say About Matty Healy on The Tortured Poets Department
There are a surprising number of references to her fling with The 1975 front man on the new double album. By Kase Wickman In the lead-up to Taylor Swift ’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department , released on Friday, the moody imagery and morose snippets of lyrics sprinkled acro Inside Alvin Bragg’s All-Star Prosecution Team
Donald Trump may be in for a grilling by legal eagles like Matthew Colangelo and Susan Hoffinger. Then again, the former president is not likely to sit back and take it. By Chris Smith Alvin Bragg is the Manhattan district attorney. He’s the boss and makes the big decisions, and th Inside the 2024 Venice Biennale: Papal Pavilions, a Polarizing Program, and Billionaires Aplenty
The art world's every-other-year Olympics is officially underway. Why even His Holiness is getting in on the action this go round. By Nate Freeman On Saturday, a full week before the public opening of the Venice Biennale, the Lebanese retail magnate Tony Salamé was in Rome to open How Do You Find a Jury of Donald Trump’s Peers?
Potential jurors in week one of the former president’s unprecedented criminal trial were sometimes awed and sometimes repulsed. Could any of them be impartial? By Dan Adler An IT consultant who lives on the Lower East Side walked into a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday and sized Dona Kayla Nicole, Travis Kelce’s Ex-Girlfriend, Has Reached Her “Breaking Point”
“Would love for ‘yall’ (because you know exactly who you are) to leave me alone,” she tweeted Thursday ahead of Taylor Swift’s album release. By Kase Wickman K ayla Nicole , Travis Kelce ’s ex-girlfriend, is speaking out about the “constant vitriol” she has received online. “I’m unpro No, Trump’s Plan to Deploy 100,000 Poll Workers Isn’t About “Election Integrity”
His campaign is laying the foundation for another blitz of challenges that could put democracy through an even bigger stress test than 2020. By Eric Lutz Donald Trump has made his self-serving “rigged election” lies something like scripture for Republicans—an organizing principle f Always Great: How Robin Weigert Brings Herself to Her Most Indelible Roles
The Emmy nominee looks back at her breakthrough in Deadwood, her heartbreaking two-hander with Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies, and her startling current performance in We Were the Lucky Ones. By David Canfield In Always Great , Awards Insider speaks with Hollywood’s greatest under NYC Prep Was a Bad Idea Then, and a Worse Idea Now
Revisiting a Bravo relic about spoiled teens proves way less fun than imagined. By Richard Lawson When Peacock announced that a cache of old Bravo shows would be landing on the streaming service this week , I thought it might be particularly fun, in a queasily nostalgic way, to revi On The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift Is Still Rejecting Your Judgment
The pop auteur’s 11th album is about a few famous failed relationships, sure, but it’s also about how it feels to rip things up and start over again. By Erin Vanderhoof The arrival today of Taylor Swift ’s 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, is a fitting capstone to ou Trump Campaign Denies Press Credentials for Several Journalists
Reporters from The Washington Post, Axios, and Vanity Fair have recently been rejected, though blanket bans, à la 2016, don’t appear to be happening. (“It’s much more picky-choosy,” says one journalist.) The Trump team responds: We’re “the most press-friendly and accessible.” By C Stevie Nicks Wrote a Poem for Taylor Swift's New Album, The Tortured Poets Department
Swift also namedrops Nicks in the track “Clara Bow.” By Kase Wickman As if 31 tracks and more lyrical burns than an emergency room waiting room on the Fourth of July wasn’t enough to work with, Taylor Swift ’s new double album The Tortured Poets Department also features an original Taylor Swift’s New Album, The Tortured Poets Department, Is Here, and It Is Bleak
The musician’s eleventh studio album hit shelves on Friday, April 19, and fans were surprised with a double album. By Kase Wickman After months of speculation and anticipation, Taylor Swift has finally released her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department , on Friday, April A Comically Large Number of Kennedys Endorse Joe Biden, Not RFK Jr., for President
That’s got to hurt. By Bess Levin Presidential campaigns are notoriously brutal. The bruising schedule. The bad coffee. The time away from home. The never-ending need to hit up donors for money. The attack ads. The ever-present possibility that it could all be for nothing. You know 17 States Are Considering Laws That Would Imprison Librarians
Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis has been forced to limit certain Floridians to only one book-banning attempt per month. By Bess Levin Once upon a time, working as a librarian in America was not considered a dangerous vocation. Rewarding, of course. Sweet, sure. Occasionally dull, yes, but Late Night Rips Into Trump for Confusing Jimmy Kimmel With Al Pacino at the Oscars
Kimmel and Stephen Colbert laid into the former president after he conflated the Oscar host with the Oscar presenter in a Truth Social post. “‘Say hello to my little friend’ is what he said to Stormy Daniels that got him in all this trouble,” quipped Kimmel. By Chris Murphy You mig Could Taylor Swift Release Two Albums Tomorrow? A Theory.
Vanity Fair's resident Swiftie makes the case for why Reputation (Taylor's Version) could come alongside The Tortured Poets Department on Friday. By Kase Wickman Taylor Swift announced her eleventh studio album , The Tortured Poets Department , onstage at the Grammys in February, but The Jinx Part Two Shows Robert Durst Wasn’t Alone in His Depravity
How did the convicted murderer get away with his crimes for so long? Andrew Jarecki explains in his gripping sequel to the 2015 true crime phenomenon. By Joy Press “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” Those 11 words triggered a collective gasp across America when t Mike Johnson’s Game of Chicken
The House speaker is forging ahead with his Ukraine aid package, motion-to-vacate fears be damned. “When you do the right thing,” he said, “you let the chips fall where they may.” By Eric Lutz Mike Johnson is a lot of things—a right-wing zealot and a shameless enabler of Donald Tru Ashanti and Nelly Are Engaged and Expecting a Baby
They broke the news in Essence. By Kase Wickman It’s a match made in Top 40 radio: musicians Ashanti and Nelly are engaged and expecting their first child together, Ashanti shared with Essence Wednesday . “This new year of my life is such a blessing full of love, hope, and anticipati The Highlights and Potential Breakouts of This Year’s Cannes Lineup
Sebastian Stan playing Trump, Demi Moore and Richard Gere with their biggest movie roles in years, Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus—we get into everything that can go very right, or very wrong, on the Croisette. By David Canfield Last year’s Cannes Film Festival fielded three eve
