Month: May 2025

While they’re asleep, I’ll use a Sharpie to scrawl “NOT ME” on the front-runners’ faces.

Monday is the Met Gala, known as fashion’s grandest event, where celebrities from various realms come together at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate fashion and each other.

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Production in Hollywood has been suffering. But it’s unclear how a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the United States would work – or who it would help.

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The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

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Thomas’ April 23 death at age 71 brings to a close one of the most significant avant-garde experiments ever conducted within the confines of pop music. Rock critic Ken Tucker reflects on his legacy.

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Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway. “I don’t know what comes after this,” she says.

Ryan Coogler’s period thriller knows “the devil’s music” isn’t the opposite of the holy word, but its twin.

Nearly 1,000 women from around the country flew to New York City to audition for the dance troupe on its 100th anniversary. What’s helped it last so long?

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It’s the first Monday in May. AKA it’s time for the annual MET Gala. Or as some call it, “fashion’s biggest night.”

Celebrities will walk the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art hoping their looks live up to the annual theme of the gala. This year’s theme is a special one. It’s called “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” and it’s the very first Black fashion tradition to be selected for the theme of the Costume Institute’s fundraiser.

Brittany and her guests, culture writer Shelton Boyd-Griffith and editor-in-chief of Black Fashion Fair Antoine Gregory, discuss how celebrities can be sure to be on theme and how the theme is rooted in the very first fashion statements made by enslaved people.

Who can ever forget Wyatt VII, the Cowboy Pope, or Gary III, the Secular Pope?