By Francesca Perry, CNN Mallorca, Spain (CNN) — In one of Pixy Liao’s photographs, she wrestles with her boyfriend Moro in a hotel room; in another, she flings his naked body over her shoulder and carries him in the way a fireman might rescue someone. The images form part of her ongoing project “Experimental Relationship”
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Saying that the Sydney Opera House is a well-known icon of Australia is kind of like saying the Amazon is a creek. The building, which turns 50 years old on October 20, has been given a cultural value of $11.4 billion by the global financial firm Deloitte. Sure, the
Continue Reading By Maggie Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Offering everything from Michelin-endorsed dim sum to juicy smoked goose served in a world-renowned restaurant, Hong Kong is home to some of the finest culinary experiences on the planet. But there are hundreds of underrated meals that aren’t going to have quite the same impact on your
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Adele has said goodbye to drinking alcohol. While chatting with a beverage-consuming concertgoer during her Las Vegas show last week, the singer revealed to her audience that she “stopped drinking quite a while ago,” according to a video posted to social media. “It feels like forever,” she said, revealing
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — At least we can now definitely say Travis Kelce has been going out on dates with Taylor Swift. In the latest episode of his “New Heights” podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, Swift and Travis Kelce’s weekend in NYC came up, of course. Jason Kelce asked his brother
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Julia Fox’s press tour for her tell-all memoir “Down the Drain” has been in full swing this month, which means ample opportunity for the actor, model and newly christened author to go full on, well, Julia Fox. It takes restraint to not dedicate our Look of the Week title
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — MTV’s 2023 Europe Music Awards (EMAs), set to take place in Paris on November 5, are canceled as the conflict in the Middle East continues, according to a statement posted to the show’s social media Thursday. “Given the volatility of world events, we have decided not to move forward
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — George Clooney, Tyler Perry and other A-list actors have made a significant proposal to try to help resolve the months-long actors’ strike. After meeting over Zoom with SAG-AFTRA union leadership on Tuesday, Clooney and more than a dozen other prominent and high-earning members proposed changes that included removing a
Continue Reading By Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Photographer Chloe Sherman had rarely used social media, until a chance discovery by her daughter prompted her to revisit her work documenting the queer community in 1990s San Francisco. Sherman’s daughter, home from college in the spring of 2021, had noticed her mother’s photograph “Kindred Spirits, 1994” posted on
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Not that Goop is up for sale, but founder Gwyneth Paltrow has an exit plan when that day comes. In an interview with Bustle to promote her new skin care line good.clean.goop, the actress and entrepreneur mentions disappearing more than once. After discussing how it felt to turn
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Burt Young, a former boxer who found fame playing tough guys in Hollywood, died earlier this month, according to his manager. He was 83. “Burt was an actor of tremendous emotional range. He could make you cry and he could scare you to death. But the real pathos
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — There’s a difference between “long” and “epic,” although in movie terms the two frequently get confused. Martin Scorsese delivers the former but not the latter with “Killers of the Flower Moon,” his second consecutive three-and-a-half-hour movie derived from a true story and underwritten by a prestige-hungry streaming service.
Continue Reading CNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — There’s a difference between “long” and “epic,” although in movie terms the two frequently get confused. Martin Scorsese delivers the former but not the latter with “Killers of the Flower Moon,” his second consecutive three-and-a-half-hour movie derived from a true story and underwritten by a prestige-hungry streaming
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Separated or not, there seems to remain a great deal of love between Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith reportedly showed up in Pinkett Smith’s hometown of Baltimore on Wednesday night for a promotional event for her new memoir, “Worthy.” “I just really wanted to come out
Continue Reading By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A windswept Arctic fox, a murmuration of birds facing a snowstorm in the Himalayas, and a man and a boy in a flooded living room are among the images recognized in this year’s Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation’s Environmental Photography Award. The prize, in its third edition, hopes
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What do you get when you feed bacteria with industrial fruit waste? “A yellow leather jacket” might not be your first answer, but it’s exactly what came out of a collaboration between Danish fashion brand Ganni and Mexican biomaterials company Polybion. The blazer — a one-of-a-kind prototype that is
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — On October 20, 1973 — exactly 50 years ago this Friday — the Sydney Opera House was opened to great fanfare by the late Queen Elizabeth II. Completed a decade late and vastly over-budget, the unusual-looking building was not an immediate hit with Australians. Yet, in the decades since,
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — John Stamos revealed in a new interview on Wednesday that he’s a survivor of sexual abuse. Speaking with People, Stamos elaborated on an excerpt in his upcoming memoir “If You Would Have Told Me,” wherein he reflects on being abused as a child by a babysitter. “It was like
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Julianna Margulies is feeling “disheartened” that more people in the entertainment industry aren’t speaking out against antisemitism. During Variety’s Hollywood and Antisemitism Summit in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Margulies said she’s trying to “understand and work around why every single person in our industry isn’t standing up” against hatred.
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The developers behind Miami’s glittering Waldorf Astoria supertall have unveiled the first look at the 1,049-foot tower’s $50 million penthouse, one of the most expensive units to come to market in the city. The six-bedroom, nine-bathroom property — which spans some 13,000 square feet — will sit at the top
Continue Reading