Beyoncé and Jay-Z, the first couple of pop music, kick off their second co-headlining stadium tour — dubbed the On the Run II Tour — on June 6 in Cardiff, Wales (home to about two in five Jews in Wales, or about 800 total). The tour will run through Europe for a month and a…
It’s 1:48 pm (EST) on Thursday and Meghan Markle has just arrived to a reception celebrating female empowerment wearing a black structured cocktail dress with an asymmetric slash collar paired with black heels. The shoes are clearly Aquazurra but news soon trickles in that the dress is from Black Halo. Back in the Forward offices,…
What do Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, and James Earl Jones have in common? Besides the exact guest list for your fantasy dinner party, that is. All four will star in Disney’s live-action “The Lion King” remake, in theaters in 2019. As Nala, Pumbaa, Timon, and Mufasa, respectively, the superstars will be joined in the…
It happened. pic.twitter.com/yBVnlY2uiL — Ben Platt (@BenSPLATT) September 15, 2017 Ben Platt is not “waving through a window” at Beyoncé any more.
Sometimes you just need a little Beyoncé in your life. During an interview with W Magazine, Gal Gadot admitted that she hit peak levels of panic while waiting to go in for her first Wonder Woman audition. “I was losing my mind. So, I decided to put on Beyoncé.” Gadot said. “Who runs the world?…
What does the ideal personal essay look like? “Honest” comes to mind. Also: “self-aware.” The ideal personal essay is extremely honest and impeccably self-aware. Or is it? What if those two goals are mutually exclusive? While a personal essay can be both of those things, and the great ones are both, something happens when the…
What got me most this year, (pre-election, it must be said) was Beyoncé’s “visual album,” “Lemonade,” which chronicles a deep betraying love but is also about everything: The history of the world, being a black women in America, fathers and daughters, performance, mothers and daughters, American cities and countries and towns, violence. Alchemy. Deep, unapologetic,…
Amy Schumer is being accused of culture appropriation and disrespecting Beyonce, pop’s reigning queen. Schumer, along with friends Wanda Sykes, Joan Cusack and Goldie Hawn, made a parody video of Beyonce’s recent single, “Formation,” a song that takes a provocative look at police brutality against African-Americans and includes references to the Black Panthers and Hurricane…
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