Entertainment

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Originally an outlier amid a glut of ’90s teen romcoms, one indie film with a femme lesbian lead, set in a hyper-artificial gay-conversion camp, has since become one of the era’s most beloved titles. “But I’m a Cheerleader,” starring Natasha Lyonne as an all-American church girl with latent sapphic

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — You’ve heard of houses on sale in southern Europe for the price of a cup of coffee. Now one country in northern Europe is running a similar scheme: selling plots for just a few cents. Götene, 200 miles southwest of Stockholm, is selling 29 plots of land with prices

By Lilit Marcus and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — South Korea’s highest mountain is facing environmental damage from an unexpected source – instant noodles. The National Park Office of Mount Halla has started a campaign to encourage hikers not to dump ramyun broth on the mountain or in its streams in order to preserve a

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — It’s become a popular beverage trend on social media platforms like TikTok in recent months – how to customize your Starbucks order so it tastes like a Vietnamese iced coffee. And increasingly, some posters are including tips on how to request a specialized version of this sweet caffeinated

By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Thrash metal trio Voice of Baceprot have come a long way since their teen years attending an Islamic school in Indonesia, where they first discovered System of a Down on a teacher’s computer and fell in love with heavy metal music. Earlier this week the band touched down in

By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — True to his theatrical form, Thom Browne’s fall 2024 couture show opened with spectacle. Men grasping a rope battled for supremacy in a staged game of tug of war at the hallowed “Musée des Arts Décoratifs” gallery in Paris, where the American designer riffed off the upcoming Olympic

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — When Johnny B. Barounis opened The Auction House in New York’s Upper East Side in 1993, he knew he wanted to deter a certain type of customer in their early 20s — in his words, “those kids that had their flannel shirts tied around their waists, wearing their Villanova

By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Charming. Historic. Romantic. Paris’s allure remains undimmed. The City of Light is a shining beacon, welcoming in visitors from all over the world keen to indulge in a spot of joie de vivre. For two years running, it has topped Euromonitor International’s poll of the world’s

By Amarachi Orie and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The original illustration for the first edition of J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” has sold for a record-breaking $1.9 million. It had been expected to sell for up to $600,000 – the highest presale value ever placed on a Harry Potter-related item, according to

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Ten women participating in a beauty pageant is nothing new. Some pose candidly, some play to the camera, their beauty forever frozen in this moment in time. Like many other pageants held in countries around the world, the contestants are young, thin and embody many of the standards defining traditional “beauty.” But