Y/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our highly scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system.
Deep in our nation’s capital, Mike Pence and his mother/wife/partner in God’s warm light, Karen, are standing in front of a giant cross, hands reaching towards each other, a respectable 4 to 5 inches of space between their flesh. “Happy Mother’s Day, Mother,” Pence whispers.
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After years of loving and using Benefit They’re Real mascara, I’ve come to see the light in drugstore formulas. There is absolutely no reason to pay $20+ for a mascara when an under $10 mascara can work just as well, and sometimes even better. I’ve drank the Kool-Aid and I’m here to spoon feed it to you as well.
We will soon be awash in new albums by a man who has now been dead for more than two years. Today, Tidal announced that it is preparing a new album culled from Prince’s legendary vault for a 2019 release. Tidal CEO Jay-Z is assisting in its compilation.
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Anthropologie will always be a good destination to start looking for something unique. With 20% off sale off on everything (seriously), no code needed, that uniqueness is that much more affordable. Just add your favorite pieces to your cart and watch the prices drop. Plus, spend $150 and get free shipping.
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On Mother’s Day, there’s nothing better than a heartfelt card to celebrate all the hard work our moms have done for us. And boy, there are a lot to choose from! There are cards to make her laugh, cards to make her cry, cards that trash her shitty husband for not doing chores, and cards that encourage her to drink…
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If Donald Glover’s “This Is America” music video is a reflection of America’s perennial terrors—racism and violence—then the sophomore season of his hit FX series, Atlanta, is a reflection of black people trying to survive it. This season, refashioned as Atlanta Robbin’ Season, opened with an armed robbery at a fast…
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A week out from the May 19 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, if you are interested in casually perusing some news from the event, you have a wealth of media options, equivalent to browsing in the world’s best-stocked news supermarket. And good luck escaping it, unless you are willing to unplug your TV and…
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In last season’s Black Mirror episode, “Arkangel,” a helicopter mother who implants tracking software in her child (because this is the future, after all) appears to give her own teenage daughter an abortion without her consent.
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One of this biggest problems with buying bikinis, besides finding the right size, is having to buy two separate things. Even with affordable swimsuits, you wind up spending $50+ on two small pieces of fabric. Aerie wants to help you out by taking 50% off every single bathing suit, from bikini to one-piece.
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The long, contentious battle for a Broadway-bound production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is finally over.
President Trump was met with roars of approval in Indiana Thursday night when he joked about having a longer stint in office than is allotted by the Constitution.
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Extra discounts from GAP, ASICS at Nordstrom Rack, discounted bathing suits and underwear from Aerie, and more lead Friday’s best lifestyle deals.
In skincare, as in life, I prefer the dramatic. Instead of taking the time and energy to actually learn what works for my skin, I always dismissed skincare as frivolous or complex, without realizing that I had been callously over-exfoliating. For the past 17-ish years of my life—starting around the time Blu Cantrell…
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Mother’s Day, a Sunday, is a wonderful opportunity to take in cinema. All the better if it’s thematically appropriate.
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On Thursday, Spotify removed R. Kelly’s music from their promoted playlists as part of a new “hate content and hateful conduct policy.” Now, R. Kelly has responded to the decision, again denying the claims of sexual misconduct that have followed him for decades. In a lengthy, wordy statement provided to Variety,…
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When I met Jocelyn, a Parkersburg, West Virginia woman in her early 20s, she was coming off her fourth job interview at the third fast food restaurant in two weeks. She’d made it to the second round with the manager, who’d just told her he wanted to know “how it looked on paper.” On paper, she looked great; her resume…
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A mother in the United States is most likely to receive a greeting card as a gift on Mother’s Day (77 percent), followed closely by flowers (69 percent) and a meal outside the house (55 percent). Associated spending is expected to reach $23.1 billion in 2018, down from $23.6 billion in 2017.
Just last night, I was complaining about how Brooklyn Nine-Nine, perhaps the greatest television show I (n)ever watched, had been cancelled. Well, the people who control television heard me (and you!), and now a bevy of networks is reportedly looking to save the series from cancellation.
It is abundantly clear by now that when two famouses break up they are never really broken up because the tiny solar system of fame makes it so that they never get to be out of each other’s orbit. Here’s a great example: Bella Hadid and The Weeknd, spotted making out at Cannes.
Plenty of us have been there, wondering how many texts is too many to send to a man who seems hellbent on being non-responsive. How can you tell if he’s dead or just busy? Maybe he’s on a business trip, in the hospital, or is a spy. How long should you wait between texts? One woman, according to some cops, did not ask…
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On Thursday, the Pulitzer Prize Board issued a statement saying it was independently investigating sexual misconduct allegations leveled against one of its members, author Junot Díaz. According to the statement, Díaz has asked to relinquish his role as incoming chairman (he was elected to the position in April), but…
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We live at a time when the federal government is removing climate change data from the EPA’s website, withdrawing from climate accords (the anniversary is upon us!), and then there’s this lunatic—yet scientists are still somehow soldiering on. This week signifiant research was published on the increasing severity of…
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On Wednesday, TMZ reported that Ariana Grande and singer Malcolm McCormick, who goes by his stage name Mac Miller, had quietly broken up after nearly two years of dating (the two first publicly announced their coupledom in September 2016).
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