By Lori Perkins Musician and fashion mogul Rihanna is expecting her first child with rapper A$AP Rocky after a year of togetherness. She showed off her bare baby bump in New York City as the couple walked through the aftermath of a major snowstorm that closed down most of the city over the weekend. The photoshoot took place in Harlem, where Rihanna wore an open hot pink winter coat revealing her unmistakable pregnancy and the Instagram photo caption read “SHE IS!” A year ago

By David T. Valentin Taken from @EmilyKoutachou Instagram Broadway’s longest running show is getting a new look this year with casting Emily Koutachou, Phantom of the Opera’s first ever Black lead. Koutachou has performed as an understudy for the character since October, and made history there too as the first ever Black woman to perform as such in the show’s 34 year run. Emily posted the news on her socials just last month, with a picture of a news article with her name in t

By Lori Perkins Minnie Mouse has never meant much to me. She’s always been the female sidekick to Mickey, who has always been the Disney brand mascot (except in Steamboat Willie and Fantasia), but I know the Mouse couple are sort of American ambassadors. Over the years, I have basically stopped wearing dresses to work. I am exponentially more comfortable in dress legging and pantsuits. Dresses are for summer days, evenings out, weddings and funerals. So, it makes sense to

By Lori Perkins When I was a young feminist in the 70s, the most important political item on the agenda for me (Roe vs. Wade had already happened) was the Equal Rights Amendment, which I expected would be passed in a matter of three or four years. Never in my wildest imagination could I have predicted that what I thought of s a simple, straight forward amendment that acknowledged in writing that men and women in the United States should be treated equally in the eyes of the

By Lori Perkins Yesterday, Jeopardy champ Amy Schneider, finally ended her 40-game winning streak losing to Rhone Talsma, a Chicago librarian, just days after becoming the game show’s second highest all-time winner in Monday. But by winning this ultimate American skill-based game show transmitted into nine million homes on a daily basis for nearly three months, Schneider, 42, an engineer from Oakland, California, brought trans lives to middle America, and the world. It was no

By David T. Valentin The year is 2001, the date September 9th and the Twin Towers in New York City just fell due to a terrorist attack. I don’t remember too much, being only four years old, but more than people might think a four-year-old would remember about a terrorist attack on the United States. I was in preschool, Tanglewood on Staten Island and to us it was like any other ordinary day. Except the teachers were shuffling about, people came in and out of our classroom, un

By Lori Perkins Amy Schneider, the current Jeopardy champ, is nearing the record overall Jeopardy champion with a 39-day winning streak for a total of $1319, 800! And she is still going strong. She is the second winningist Jeopardy player in consecutive wins. Current Jeopardy host Ken Jennings is the only other contestant in the show's history to have won more games than Schneider at 74 wins winning and a total of $2.52 million, but I have a feeling that record is about to be

By Lori Perkins If your mind is in the gutter, or you are truly bored by the limitations of good, clean word play, there’s a new daily word game for you featuring only dirty words. Based on the premise of the suddenly exponentially popular WORDLE word game where you are given six attempts to guess the five-letter word of the day, LEWDLE, follows the exact same format except all the words are smutty. This Not Safe for Work version of the world-wide English-language word-guessi

By David T. Valentin M&M announced this Thursday their beloved characters are being updated to be more inclusive and representative of modern times. This includes a few small changes, including updating their outfits like their shoes, sleeves and pants while also updating their shapes and color palettes. Of course, along with the change in attire, our favorite M&Ms will be getting a few changes in their personalities to have “an updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, w

By Lori Perkins Image taken from Wix media In today’s New York Times there’s an article headlined, “:Oh, By the Way: I Had a Baby” and I couldn’t help thinking it was perfect timing as I wrote this story about Joe Jonas, 29, and Priyanka Chopra’s, 39, announcement yesterday that they had just had a baby girl via surrogate. The new mom announced the birth on her Instagram account. “We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate. We respectfully ask for

By Lori Perkins Image taken from @daniebb3 Instagram Danielle Brooks, one of the break-out stars of Orange is the New Black, and currently seen in DC comics’ The Peacemaker series, got married over the weekend in Miami in the most stunning wedding dresses (yes, dresses – two to be exact) that would put Carrie Bradshaw to shame. One of her dresses was made by Oluwagbemisola Okunlola working with Alonuko Bespoke. Brooks called it “the dress of my dreams” which she described as

By David T. Valentin It used to be that every so often we’d get a headline on the news or in those online life magazines where we kind of just stare at our screens, tilt our head and just mouth a “What the fuck?” But for the past four, five years or so almost every headline has been like that and Machine Gun Kelly giving Megan Fox an engagement ring with thorns on the band is no different, but certainly stands out. In a joint interview with Vogue released on Monday (Jan. 17th

By David T. Valentin Yesterday, January 17th, would have been Betty White’s 100th birthday, and almost three weeks since her passing it seems the memory of the late Hollywood star is stronger than ever. In celebration of her birthday, Google played homage to Betty with her very own filter. By typing in “Betty White” in Google search, roses flowered down from the top of the screen—an homage the actresses Golden Girls character Rose Nylund—as the words “Thank you for being a fr

Saturday, January 1st 1986: Barbra Streisand and Jon Peters break up. He goes on to be her manager and godparent to her children. 2011: Shania Twain marries a Swiss businessman, Frederic Thiebaud, in Puerto Rico. The pair are still married and Twain is now a Swiss resident. Thiebaud was the husband of her best friend, who had an affair with Twain’s husband and eventually married him in what is still considered one of the most stunning celebrity swaps. Sunday, January 2nd 181

By Lori Perkins Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA As we celebrate this national holiday I wondered about the wedding of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott, because I didn’t recall seeing any of those photos. I know we don’t think of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a romantic, but being the editor of this romance-centric magazine, I realty wanted to know about their early courtship. And it was quite romantic in the 1950’s kind of way. A mutua