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John Early said he would make the cacio e pepe himself.
The Italian pasta dish, meaning “cheese and pepper,” is close to his heart. He made it for his castmates after the first season of TBS’s Search Party wrapped; he once made it to impress a guy; and he’s making it for me tonight at his place in Silver Lake, a small house he says is more like a bungalow.
windsor woes Nov. 25, 2020 The Crown Found Its Scoundrel in CharlesIf the Netflix series once wanted us to see the prince as a sensitive man dragged along by an unfeeling system, it certainly doesn’t anymore. By Hillary Kelly
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Justin Bieber. To ready fans for Purpose, Justin Bieber on Wednesday went on a photo-oriented social-media spree. The singer had teamed up with a slew of graffiti artists to install colorful, creative murals that detailed all his remaining, previously unknown titles, as well as collaborators. The artwork, from the likes of ABSTRK and Kyle Howard, among many others, rolled out today — song by song, picture by picture — and can be found in secret locations across the globe.
The New York Post’s Page Six has photographic evidence of a sheet-covered Justin Bieber failing to discreetly exit a brothel in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. Bieber reportedly spent three hours inside the building before leaving with two women. While prostitution is legal in Brazil, brothels are not, which makes it hard to know where to place this incident on the Bieber hell-raising scale. Thankfully, Page Six also reports that he “was later kicked out of [his] hotel for breaking rules,” so it seems we can safely say that this young man was up to no good the other night, even if we don’t know exactly what he did wrong.
Kelly in January 2020. On Saturday, January 30, singer and actress Kelly Rowland revealed on Instagram that she had given birth to a baby boy, Noah Jon, on January 21. Rowland made her pregnancy public in October 2020, and had been posting extremely fun TikToks of herself working out, dancing, and generally looking great while very pregnant as late as January 20. Noah Jon is Rowland and husband Tim Weatherspoon’s second child, and she shared a photo of the newborn baby meeting their older son, 6-year-old Titan, with a caption saying, “On the 21st day, of the 21st year, of the 21st Century, Noah Jon Weatherspoon/Greeted us!
If you love depraved footwear and musical theater, but haven’t seen the one Broadway show designed specifically for you … well, it’s a good thing we’re alerting you to this important turn of events, that’s all we’ll say. Kinky Boots producers announced Friday that the Tony Award-winning show will dance its last dance on April 7, 2019. Based on the 2005 British film of the same name, the classic drag-queen-saves-a-staid-British-shoe-factory with a book by Harvey Fierstein has won six Tonys, including Best Musical and Best Musical Score for songwriter Cyndi Lauper.
The Beastie Boys with Kurt Loder. In the eighties and nineties, the Beastie Boys represented a key intersection between rap music and punk-style rock. They took their unique musical fusion from the streets of New York to the top of the pop charts, and they did it without ever sacrificing their street credibility. You figure that the group would be an iconic fixture in the lives of many musicians who came of age in those days, and you’d be right.
The congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church, the people who picketed, inexplicably, outside of soldiers’ funerals with slogans like “God Hates Fags” and were out-numbered by counter-protesters in Brooklyn last year, seems to hate everything except attention. Finally, these guys decided a productive use of their time would be to protest outside of a Lady Gaga concert in St. Louis last night. They said it would be hypocritical not to, even: “Now what type of wicked hypocrites would we be if we did not warn this little false prophetess and all of her over-indulged sycophants that they are each one, individually heading straight to hell in a gender-confused, self-loathing, tone-deaf hand basket and that a gift from the God they hate?
Disney usually knows how to sell a megamillion effects tentpole, but with John Carter, the studio seems positively stumped. Last year, a confident Disney promoted the living hell out of the $200 million Tron Legacy, cutting great trailers, seeding interest in hipsters with its Daft Punk soundtrack, courting the Comic-Con audience with expensive stunts, and employing a full-scale marketing blitz to push the movie as far as it would go (which turned to be juuuuust far enough to maybe, possibly justify a sequel).