If you’re not watching 90 Day Fiancé, may I politely ask…why? Though I don’t consider myself an evangelist for garbage programming, I do seem to watch an awful lot of it. I even co-host a podcast called Bitch Sesh devoted to The Real Housewives—and while those devastatingly wondrous 60-somethings will always have my heart, I…
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While most of us are just getting St. Patrick’s Day started, the royals are, per usual, already one step ahead of us. On Sunday morning, Prince William and Kate Middleton honored the patron saint of Ireland with their annual visit to the 1st Battalion Irish Guards at Cavalry Barracks in Hounslow, England. Middleton’s paid tribute…
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Sitcoms are not a genre of TV I grew up with. Instead, I had telenovelas—dramatic ones, like La Usurpadora, Rebelde, and Pasión de Gavilanes. But as much as I was obsessed with Rebelde’s Elite Way School and its rich, privileged Mexican characters, the show never made me say, “Wow, that’s so me.” It’s not like…
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What the film does well is highlight both the experiences that girls all over the world have in common and the terrible, particular difficulties and threats that a girl like Nasro faces. How much of girlhood is a shared experience? Being a girl is always difficult. It’s a strange rite of passage, and being a…
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After her hauntingly beautiful breakthrough in 2015’s The Witch, Anya Taylor-Joy was at the top of just about every “one to watch” list in Hollywood. For some new stars, that can be the start and stop of their careers. Not Taylor-Joy. The hype this time was real, and she followed that early success with a…
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After two years of dating, Jennifer Lopez and former baseball player Alex Rodriguez are still going strong. The pair, who just celebrated their second anniversary on February 3, haven’t completely ruled out marriage, but they aren’t forcing an engagement on themselves either. They seem totally happy going at their own pace, despite pressure from their…
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