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Donald Trump played (and swayed), but it did not please Rufus Wainwright.The Canadian American artist responsible for on...
10/16/2024

Donald Trump played (and swayed), but it did not please Rufus Wainwright.

The Canadian American artist responsible for one of the most well-known covers of Leonard Cohen’s classic ballad “Hallelujah” scolded former president Trump on Tuesday for using the cover version of the song at a town hall in Oaks, Pa., on Monday night. In what has been described as a baffling moment of his presidential campaign, Trump ceased taking questions and instead spent close to 40 minutes bopping his head, swaying and meandering onstage to music.

“Of course, I in no way condone this and was mortified,” Wainwright’s statement continued, “but the good in me hopes that perhaps in inhabiting and really listening to the lyrics of Cohen’s masterpiece, Donald Trump just might experience a hint of remorse over what he’s caused. I’m not holding my breath.”

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To capture the early Saturday Night Live experience of Garrett Morris, former “New Girl” actor Lamorne Morris asked “Wha...
10/15/2024

To capture the early Saturday Night Live experience of Garrett Morris, former “New Girl” actor Lamorne Morris asked “What am I doing here?” And not for the first time.

Just as Garrett’s contributions to the early SNL are too often qualified, Lamorne once felt similarly reduced on his own hit show “New Girl.” He thinks back: “‘Oh I know that show. You’re the Black dude.’ It was like that a lot,” Lamorne says of the Fox sitcom. “And that’s kind of how Garrett felt when people mentioned SNL.”

So maybe it’s funny — or fate — that for his first big film role, Lamorne is once again playing the Black dude. Just as Garrett had to prove himself after his auspicious big break, Lamorne has emerged post-“New Girl” as an actor who can harness spontaneity, sensitivity, goofiness and depth.

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Manuel Cuevas’s work has resonated through seven and a half decades of musicians across genres, who still clamor for an ...
10/15/2024

Manuel Cuevas’s work has resonated through seven and a half decades of musicians across genres, who still clamor for an appointment to just be seen for a fitting.

At age 91, in his studio nestled among the woods and farms 30 minutes outside Nashville, Cuevas still cuts and sews with ease. Each new piece of fabric is a path to blaze, with every stitch contributing to a design that captures the unique flare of the person who will fill its final form.

At age 12, Cuevas saw a Sears catalogue offering formal dresses. “When I saw that I said, ‘I’m gonna make dresses for women and I’m gonna make them so different I’m gonna shock the world,’” he explains.

In giving agency to young women, he would learn firsthand the liberating power of fashion.

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Pamela Anderson’s sincere wonderment with nature’s edible possibilities streams through “I Love You: Recipes From the He...
10/14/2024

Pamela Anderson’s sincere wonderment with nature’s edible possibilities streams through “I Love You: Recipes From the Heart,” the Hollywood icon’s debut cookbook. Its plant-based recipes trade on her longtime animal rights activism.

“I always thought that’s the symbol of success, if you can open your refrigerator and it’s just packed,” says Anderson.

“I Love You” arrives at a moment when Anderson has begun to wrest control over her public image — one that outside parties have sometimes shaped on her behalf, and not always with her consent.

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The Post’s TV critic Lili Loofbourow writes: Thirty-five years after they killed their parents in their Beverly Hills ho...
10/10/2024

The Post’s TV critic Lili Loofbourow writes: Thirty-five years after they killed their parents in their Beverly Hills home, Lyle and Erik Menendez are once again objects of enormous public interest.

The brothers, who are serving consecutive life sentences after they were convicted in 1996 for the first-degree murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez, might go free. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced his office was reviewing two new pieces of evidence that could provide sufficient basis for a resentencing, or even a new trial.

A true crime show explores the perpetrator’s experience, digs into the larger social context, and records the way the justice system responded to extralegal pressures. These repackagings usually retain most of the scandalous detail available in the original tabloid takes. But the tone, despite these indulgences, is corrective; rather than celebrate the murderer’s conviction, the viewer tends to emerge swathed in reasonable doubt.

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The Post’s Robin Givhan writes: It’s been 20 years since the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated one of its costume exh...
10/09/2024

The Post’s Robin Givhan writes: It’s been 20 years since the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated one of its costume exhibitions to the attire of men. And it has never focused an exhibition squarely on the subject of race. But its Costume Institute show will examine the complicated story of the Black dandy, which is a locus of our ambivalence about race, gender, class and masculinity.

History has shown an appreciation for a man who strutted into a room wearing a head-to-toe coordinated ensemble, perhaps in a searing shade of crimson, complete with matching alligator shoes. Just ask folks in some quarters of Chicago or Detroit. That wasn’t fashion. It was style. Nonnegotiable. And now, the Met agrees.

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For the founders of FUBU, which started from the basement of a Queens, New York, home in 1992, Atlanta was the right fit...
10/08/2024

For the founders of FUBU, which started from the basement of a Queens, New York, home in 1992, Atlanta was the right fit for a reintroduction: A Black cultural epicenter embodying the grit, hustle and “For Us, By Us” ethos that powered the brand to redefine streetwear during the golden age of hip-hop.

That vision remains central to FUBU’s identity as the brand returned to the runway at Atlanta Fashion Week.

The resurgence of Y2K streetwear is widely apparent. FUBU’s efforts stand out amongst competitors, attracting collaborations with companies that have already a major stronghold among younger shoppers, including Puma, Urban Outfitters and Forever 21.

“Our goal is to attract the younger demographic, but we also know that we have a community that grew up with us for the last 30-odd years that are not kids anymore and we want to service them too,” says Carlton Brown, FUBU president and co-owner.

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On the last weekend in September, a barbecue stand by the river sells gator and rice, smoked frog legs and buffalo and b...
10/07/2024

On the last weekend in September, a barbecue stand by the river sells gator and rice, smoked frog legs and buffalo and boar sausage. Townspeople square-dance, with a 95-year-old man calling out the moves, and crown a 20-year-old nursing student as festival queen.

But the heart of the Roadkill Cook-Off in Marlinton, W. Va., is the culinary competition. The bizarre foods. The “roadkill.”

“The Rotary Club, the Lions Club, the Shriners Club — this is how they raise money,” says Kendall Beverage, whose team, the P*P Buck Busters, cooked deer-and-bean. “This fundraiser funds our schools, our sports teams, all year round.”

Years ago, there was a sense that the shindig cast West Virginians in a bad light by leaning too far into stereotypes of “roadkill and hillbillies and stuff,” says Marlinton native Joshua Barkley, who wears a coonskin hat, pioneer fringe jacket and a bowie knife hanging on one hip and a flintlock pistol on the other.

“But,” he says, “this is just who we are.”

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Brittany O’Grady sees her tendency to be an emotional open book as core to her acting. She feels, and it shows up in the...
10/04/2024

Brittany O’Grady sees her tendency to be an emotional open book as core to her acting. She feels, and it shows up in the work.

“I’ve been told my whole life to get a tougher skin,” says. “I have now fully accepted that my sensitivity, that what I physically and emotionally feel, is actually a superpower.”

Even with HBO’s “White Lotus,” Disney Plus’s “Elsbeth” and her new film, Netflix’s “It’s What’s Inside,” all under her belt, it seems the 28-year-old is just getting started.

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Maybe the only person in fashion who can still create actual trends is Miuccia Prada, who continues to ride high from th...
10/04/2024

Maybe the only person in fashion who can still create actual trends is Miuccia Prada, who continues to ride high from the ongoing viral success of her brand Miu Miu, writes.

Most fashion designers today do things that won’t really trickle down to the rest of culture. But Y2K style, miniskirts, crop tops, perverted prep, boat shoes, penny loafers — all these things you keep reading about “making a comeback” in trend reports or on social media got their start on Miuccia Prada’s runways over the past three years.

At Miu Miu, even when you try to look pulled together, you can’t help but get a bit messed up.

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The old aphorism has always been that a lot of cash can buy you clothes and fashion, but no amount of money can buy you ...
10/03/2024

The old aphorism has always been that a lot of cash can buy you clothes and fashion, but no amount of money can buy you style, writes The Post’s Rachel Tashjian.

At Valentino, though, new top gun Alessandro Michele is waving an antique-ring-stacked finger at that idea and saying, “No, no, no.” More than the clothes, which were sumptuous, decadent and romantic, if a bit stagy, Michele’s message was that his remit at Valentino is to live his life as a model for the world, or at least the Valentino world. He is a monk of luxury, following in the path of the luxury lords, writing his luxury messages

On Sunday, Michele unveiled his first show for Valentino, the most anticipated of the season and a major comeback moment for a designer who abruptly left Gucci, the Kering flagship he turned into a $10 billion business, only two years ago.

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A team of lawyers announced Tuesday that they would be filing 120 sexual assault lawsuits against Sean Combs — a massive...
10/01/2024

A team of lawyers announced Tuesday that they would be filing 120 sexual assault lawsuits against Sean Combs — a massive legal action that appears to have few, if any, precedents in the era.

The lawsuits would exponentially increase the number of sexual abuse accusations against the embattled music producer.

Combs is currently being held at a Brooklyn jail on federal charges of racketeering and sexual trafficking.

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Presidential campaign trails are paved not just with rallies and glad-handing and stump speeches, but also with food.Las...
09/30/2024

Presidential campaign trails are paved not just with rallies and glad-handing and stump speeches, but also with food.

Last month, JD Vance was photographed ordering cheesesteaks at the legendary Pat’s King of Steaks in Philadelphia. Similarly, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz last month visited a Raleigh location of Cook Out, where Gov. Roy Cooper suggested the two order milkshakes, a specialty of the beloved Tar Heel State-based company.

When they go well, campaign experts say, such stops can serve a few fundamental purposes. And while many of these interactions might look casual, a lot goes on behind the scenes to pull them off.

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Maggie Smith, a scene-stealing British actress who won Oscars for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite,...
09/27/2024

Maggie Smith, a scene-stealing British actress who won Oscars for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite,” later enchanting audiences as a professorial witch in the Harry Potter juggernaut and as a sly dowager countess on the TV series “Downton Abbey,” died Sept. 27 in London. She was 89.

Her family announced the death in a statement released by publicist Clair Dobbs but did not provide further details.

For most of her six decades in show business, Ms. Smith defined herself mainly as a theatrical actress, with memorable roles in London’s West End and on Broadway. A comedian of incandescent wit and a tragedian of cunning power, she portrayed both Oscar Wilde’s class-conscious Lady Bracknell and Shakespeare’s ruthlessly ambitious Lady Macbeth with spellbinding precision.

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No one has ever been as famous for helping other people put on clothes as Law Roach.He dressed Celine Dion, cheekily, in...
09/26/2024

No one has ever been as famous for helping other people put on clothes as Law Roach.

He dressed Celine Dion, cheekily, in a “Titanic” Vetements sweatshirt. Hunter Schafer, impossibly, in a single feather as a top. Anya Taylor-Joy, joyfully, in hot-pink Dior couture with a matching pillbox hat. He often put Zendaya in vintage clothes from his store.

The stylist has become an essential part of the Hollywood firmament, where brand deals can rival paychecks for major film roles. And the job is not just about money: Clothes have become mini-trailers for films, in large part thanks to the approach of stylists like Roach.

It’s become trendy to say that fashion has become a part of popular culture, but the reality is that most people aren’t looking at an Armani or Louis Vuitton dress on the runway. They’re learning about it through Zendaya.

caught up with The Post to discuss his new book and how he changed the way we see celebrities.

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Etsy is a portal to an alternate reality, where an already weird election is, via its T-shirts, growing substantially we...
09/26/2024

Etsy is a portal to an alternate reality, where an already weird election is, via its T-shirts, growing substantially weirder.

Of course, many political T-shirts, starting with the campaign-sanctioned official ones, are perfectly bland. Political memorabilia has long followed fashion trends, so T-shirts and sweatshirts have become common political canvases since the 1960s.

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Hoda Kotb, co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” show with Savannah Guthrie, will leave the program early next year after 17 years,...
09/26/2024

Hoda Kotb, co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” show with Savannah Guthrie, will leave the program early next year after 17 years, she announced Thursday.

During the show’s morning broadcast, Kotb shared that her decision to leave involved a “new decade ahead” and that her mother and daughters “deserve a bigger slice of my life pie.” Kotb cited turning 60 last month as the moment she realized she wanted to leave the show.

Kotb said she will stay in the chair until early 2025 and will remain on the network in “some capacity.” Besides the morning show, Kotb was also a co-anchor alongside Jenna Bush Hager for the network’s fourth-hour slot.

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If New York is fashion’s grittiest capital, London its most underground and Paris its most extravagant, Milan is the one...
09/24/2024

If New York is fashion’s grittiest capital, London its most underground and Paris its most extravagant, Milan is the one that best mixes business with pleasure.

You’ve got the swag of Versace, the wit of Moschino and the megawattage of Prada, but humming alongside all that glamour is industry. This is a garmento’s town, and everyone in the audience, whether they’re front row or standing, is ready to make a deal.

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