Piper Kerman, whose memoir cum Netflix series Orange Is the New Black detailed her experience in a women’s prison, shared some tips on surviving incarceration when we ran into her backstage at an Amnesty International “Art for Amnesty” event in Brooklyn this past weekend. Although she says she wasn’t able to swap any prison stories with Martha Stewart when they met (the two were released from prison the same day), Kerman’s advice to those facing time behind bars is as straightforward as a Martha Stewart recipe: Shut up, and look out.

As is their tradition, CNN’s New Year’s Eve crew gets looser than you’d expect, considering they have to host for literally hours in the driving rain. And while it’s no Don Lemon getting drunk enough to pierce his ear on live television* last year, Anderson Cooper’s audible horror after taking hourly tequila shots with Andy Cohen is just what you need to close out the year/not feel bad about howling and grimacing through your own round of shots.

Courtesy of Universal Ron Perlman’s three-decade career has been as consistently charming as it is veiled. To all but the most hard-core of cinephiles, he was “that guy”: the lion-faced beast of TV’s Beauty and the Beast, Wesley Snipes’s skinhead nemesis in Blade II, and yet another “manimal” in The Island of Dr. Moreau — not to mention his extensive career as a voice actor courtesy of Perlman’s distinctive northeastern baritone.

Sure, anyone could host a holiday party where they blast Run the Jewels’ “A Christmas Fucking Miracle” on repeat, but what about playing that song while wearing a festive T-shirt or sweatshirt with Killer Mike’s and El-P’s faces? In the 2016 edition of their annual “Run the Yules” holiday sweater (not actually a sweater) there are the aforementioned mugs, a red reindeer, green hearts, snowflakes, and Christmas trees. Run the Jewels announced the merchandise on Twitter, writing, “Perfect for your next ugly-sweater holiday party.

There’s no season like Drag Race season, because at this point, Drag Race season never does stop. Sure, the U.K. edition of the series just ended, and sure, AJ and the Queen just came out on Netflix, but now VH1 is here to announce that season 12 will come to and/or for you on February 28, with episodes of Untucked airing immediately after each installment. The network packaged the reveal with a very Americana preview introduction to the collection of 13 queens vying for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar.

Sam Smith is back from getting hot at the body shop and they’ve called in back-up. In the first verse of their new single, “Vulgar,” Smith says (because it’s really more says than sings on this song), “All black in stripper heels, move like Madonna.” It’s a dance-inspired track about having a bad-bitch attitude and feeling your oats, so Madonna is the perfect point of comparison. But on the next verse, Madonna herself taps in and says, “If you fuck with Sam tonight, you’re fucking with me.

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Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley are officially the corniest celebrity couple ever. They just gave what may be their first in-person interview as an engaged couple as an exclusive to an unofficial theme-park fan vlog called Chip and Company. In the bizarre video, the NFL player–slash–Jeopardy! host and the actress-slash-person sit with empty Mickey Mouse mugs in the middle of a Disney World hotel lobby like bored kids “playing TV host” while Mom and Dad fight at the check-in desk.

People keep talking about Red Hook Summer as a return to your roots. Do you feel that way? I am glad you asked that, because I am going to try to shake the narrative as much as I can. This is not Spike going back to his roots. Red Hook Summer is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn. I am a professor at NYU—I’ve been one the last fifteen years—and one of the courses they are teaching in cinema studies this summer is “Scorsese’s New York.

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