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This week the United Kingdom has been thoroughly battered by bad weather, and despite the fact that it's now March, Great Britain has been covered in snow and ice thanks to the so-called "Beast from the East" which has collided with Storm Emma, blizzard conditions have brought Scotland, England and…
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Last month, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. They're part of the "America's Presidents" exhibit, and the portraits of the first African-American president and First Lady were even more significant because the artists commissioned to do the job were for the first…
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Hang in there guys, because spring is just around the corner. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, we've been suffering through the winter for what feels like an eternity, but slowly, we're starting to see signs of warmth and hope and happiness again. The days are getting longer,…
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The mass shooting of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, as well as the suicide terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert in the UK's Manchester, were two devastating events last year that made us well aware that attackers like to target music events for…
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Job interviews suck. Everyone knows it, and everyone dreads them. It's something that we'd never admit to the folks facing us in that office, who cooly stare at our resume and ask us probing questions about our last job, but it's true. The ]problem is that the long and drawn-out…
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Jennifer Lawrence's latest film Red Sparrow hit cinemas yesterday, and it continues to be a big talking point. It's the first movie in which the 27-year-old decided to bare all and do a nude scene, and everyone wants to know how the "relatable" actress feels about it. Lawrence opened up…
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It's pretty hard to imagine the richest one per cent ever worrying about money. When you think about the lives of the seriously rich (multi-millionaire or billionaires that is) the idea that they could ever struggle financially, or even lose money at all, seems preposterous. When you have that many…
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The affectionately named "Beast from the East" that is sweeping continental Europe and the UK is causing temperatures to plummet lower than they've been in decades and see cities receive huge dumpings of snow they're not usually accustomed to. And while it's making transport stop and people to whine persistently as…
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The last Twilight film came out more than five years ago, and while many of us have long since dumped our books in charity stores, desperate to get the embarrassing memories of arguing whether we were #TeamJacob or #TeamEdward out of our heads, the saga lives on for many adoring…
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It's fair to say that 2017 has been a year of intense scandal and controversy in Hollywood - so much so that many political and social justice activists have called for a complete revolution of the culture and values of the entertainment industry. After the exposure of Harvey Weinstein's habitual sexual…
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TMZ reports rapper Rick Ross, 42, has been hospitalized and is breathing off of a machine that has taken control of his heart and his lungs. It is essentially a form of life support, which means that his condition is serious. UPDATE: Maybach Music artist Fat Trell provided an update…
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Saturday Night Live has always made fun of presidents, from Chevy Chase playing Gerald Ford to Dana Carvey playing George H.W. Bush to Darrell Hammond playing Bill Clinton. Typically presidents expect they're going to get mocked, and although they might not like it, they try to show a good sense…
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A lot of people in the world want to be rich and famous at some point in their lives. Even as we fantasise about making it big, it would be an extremely weird experience to become a bona fide celebrity. And it would be even stranger to make it to…
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Aidan's pub on Rhode Island may look innocuous from the outside, but inside this old, dingy and dark building lies one of the most interesting and inspirational women in America. Betty Anne Waters is a waitress and general manager at Aidan's and, while she may seem like a smiley, welcoming…
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There have been plenty of mass shootings before, and with each death toll comes the usual platitudes of 'thoughts and prayers' issued by politicians to the victims' families, with no changes to gun control laws to prevent massacres like this from happening again. In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, in…
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Jennifer Lawrence is one of those celebrities that you can't help but like. Whether it's her often hilarious, if not slightly blunt, responses to stupid questions or her put-downs of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein - Lawrence certainly appears to have her head screwed on. Much like the majority of A-listers,…
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Last year, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their engagement, kicking off a flurry of excitement from the British public - and a few grumbles from various family members and celebrities who found out they weren't invited to the big day. Their wedding is due to take place on May 19th…
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Trying to fit in as a woman in society can be a little difficult sometimes. If you want to follow the standards of "conventional" beauty, you have to dress a certain way, do your makeup to a particular standard, and - most painstakingly - make sure that practically every inch…
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John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are many people's #CoupleGoals. If they made a video playing with kittens, it would probably be so adorable that it would break the Internet and tear a hole in the space-time continuum. While Office fans may be bummed to see Jim cheating on Pam, they…
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As the bizarre Gucci catwalk show at Parish fashion week revealed, the world of fashion can often represent a strange and difficult place to understand. In case you missed it, Gucci had their catwalk models parade down the aisle holding prosthetic versions of their heads in order to promote "the…
