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Photo: TasfotoNL (Shutterstock) We’ve all seen those electronic road signs on the highway every day that read, “Expect Delays,” or “Wear a Seatbelt,” or “Traffic Ahead.” In Hagerstown, Maryland someone decided it would be a funny idea to hack an electronic message sign overnight to display a racial slur. It …

In one early scene in Lauren Oyler’s novel Fake Accounts, the narrator snoops through her boyfriend’s phone. His apps are arranged in an unfamiliar way, and looking with fresh eyes makes all the colorful options—a camera, an internet browser, two ride-sharing services—immediately overwhelming. “The effect was to prevent the eye …

Just a week away from the production set to start in New York, its star Cardi B has just pulled out of the Assisted Living cast. The remaining cast and crew were just informed that the comedy has been temporarily canceled, according to Deadline, who broke the story.  The $30 …

Photo: Adobestock When I put down my deposit for an upcoming getaway to Jamaica with my homegirls, I realized a true and official summer was on its way. We haven’t seen one of those for real since 2019, and as my girls and I joked about the summer loves we’d …

Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) practices with the team during NFL football practice Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Houston.Photo: Justin Rex (AP) Deshaun Watson won’t be heading to trial–or jail–following an investigation on sexual assault allegations by multiple women. The Houston Texans quarterback, who missed all of last season while …

There’s a thin line between success and burnout, and it’s a tightrope former CNN Senior Producer Elise Roberts tried to balance before she took a leap into a new career to save herself. Roberts understood sometimes jumping into the unknown is safer than staying where you are. Even though she …

The union of the filmmaker Kogonada and the actor Colin Farrell might not have seemed obvious at first glance. Kogonada’s debut film, the excellent 2017 indie Columbus, is told with quiet remove—the camera is often placed quite a distance away from the lead actors (John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson). …

One of the busiest women in show business just launched another project. Actually, it’s a relaunch; Gabrielle Union’s successful collaboration with plus-size specialists Fashion to Figure is back with a size-inclusive spring capsule collection. Photo: Fashion to Figure “There shouldn’t be a divide in what’s offered to straight-size customers versus plus,” …

Basketball Wives alum Royce Reed was released from jail shortly after turning herself in for felony child neglect. On Friday, Reed was charged with third-degree felony neglect of a child in a case involving her 14-year-old son, Braylon, whom she shares with NBA star Dwight Howard, Radar Online reports. The …

Samuel L. Jackson in “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” premiering globally March 11, 2022 on Apple TV+.Photo: Courtesy of AppleTV+ If the saying is true that “all a man is, is what he remembers,” then the very vivid—and at times very fleeting—memories of Ptolemy Grey’s life, as shown in …