Madonna opened the VMAs last night with her first performance on the show in 23 years, and she brought company. She started “Bring Your Love” spread-eagle atop a black grand piano as Sabrina played the keys below. Then Charli showed up for “Danceteria” on a stage set designed to look like a public men’s bathroom, urinals and all.
Check out the full performance above!
Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin) plays Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, in Celyn Jones’ Madfabulous. The real Henry was nicknamed “the dancing marquess.” He landed in 1890s North Wales, turned the family chapel into a theatre, and blew a multi-million-pound inheritance on costumes, jewels and parties before dying at 29. Rupert Everett plays his loyal servant.
Henry held nothing back, and neither does Callum. Get a look at his backside after the NSFW jump, OKAY!
This seems like a no-brainer! We’ve been begging for this for year! DUH. Kraft Heinz teamed up with Toronto’s Solly’s Craft Soda on a limited-edition KD soda: cream soda with a hint of Kraft Dinner’s cheesy flavour. Kraft says it pairs great with a bowl of mac n’ cheese, or on its own, which is a brave thing to say about a cheese soda. It’s on Amazon now and hits participating Canadian retailers in early October, while quantities last. The brand says the idea came from fans doing their own “mac hacks,” like dumping in extra cheese powder. So yes, this one is on us.
KD has been busy this year. KD Mac & Cheesecake came out in May, KD Ramen in June, and last month Booster Juice served a KD smoothie at the CNE, blended with mango and pineapple juice. Solly’s founder Adin Wener (not the Bart Simpson prank-phonecall psuedonym) swears the soda is strange but somehow works. After Chopova Lowena put Hellmann’s on a handbag, we’ve stopped asking questions. Truly giving new meaning to the term ‘kraft soda’.
Ryan McGinley took his camera into the Russian & Turkish Baths on East 10th Street for The Cut’s Men’s Style Issue, and the cast is stacked: Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, playwright Jeremy O. Harris, Troye Sivan (fresh off his move to New York), novelist Marlon James, Isaac Cole Powell, Jack Cameron Kay, and painter Francesco Clemente (who used to sweat it out there with Basquiat in the ’80s.)
Stylist Miyako Bellizzi had them wear “some fashion. But hardly any.” Of course, in practice that means Dior shorts, a Hermès towel, and a whole lot of balmy skin.
The Baths have been open since 1892, and two families still split the place week by week. There are Boris weeks and David weeks, and a pass bought for one won’t get you in on the other. Each side even has its own Instagram account. A day pass is $60 now, and Sundays and Thursdays are still men-only, which have turned into gay meetups.
See the full article and shoot over at The Cut and more pics from the shoot after the jump!
California is finally taking Tesla to trial over its Fremont factory, where the state says more than 6,000 Black workers were paid less, promoted less and called slurs on the line for years.
On day one, the Civil Rights Department showed the judge photos from inside the plant: the n-word scratched into metal, swastikas, “KKK” and a noose drawn on the walls. One worker says he heard slurs 50 to 100 times a day, and staff nicknamed the place “the plantation.” Tesla’s lead lawyer Tyree Jones responded by repeating the slur in open court and arguing the state was going after “the way that many Black people greet each other.” Jones is Black, and sure, reclaimed use is a real thing… It just has nothing to do with swastikas in the break room or managers calling the staff “slaves.”
And it gets messier. According to Electrek, the state’s very first witness testified that Tesla’s senior counsel contacted him days before trial while claiming to represent the state, and prosecutors say four more potential witnesses have since dropped off their radar. Judge Peter Borkon will decide the case without a jury, (shocker) the trial runs through the end of October, and because California is suing directly, there’s no cap on what Tesla could owe. Tesla denies any wrongdoing. …Wow. No words really.
Happy Friday!
Jake B. Miller comes away with HER in ‘Come Away with Me’ after the NSFW jump, OKAY!
Find the rest of her new ALLURE shoot where she’s serving some AQUA 2000s glamour, and find her hornty-Insta stories after the jump!