David Robert Mitchell trades small-town dread for something far bigger — an entire cul-de-sac flung into the age of the dinosaurs, with Anne Hathaway holding a family together at the end of the world. The first teaser did its job in a single image: a tidy suburban street — mailboxes, minivans, a basketball hoop over...
Grande’s eighth album arrives ‘a little feral’ — a record about severing negative attachments, delivered with the poise of someone finished explaining herself. Ariana Grande released ‘Petal,’ her eighth studio album, on July 31, 2026, through Babydoll Music and Republic Records. Twelve tracks long and co-written and executive-produced by Grande with her longtime collaborator Ilya...
The weight-loss drugs didn’t just shrink waistlines — they rewired how a country shops, eats, trains and thinks about health. A few years ago, GLP-1 medications were a diabetes treatment most people had never heard of. In 2026, they are a cultural force. Semaglutide and tirzepatide — sold under names like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and...
A24’s coming-of-age portrait skips the celebrity-chef mythology and rewinds to a teenager washing dishes on Cape Cod. Fans are wary; the estate is on board. Anthony Bourdain spent much of his life resisting the idea that anyone should be turned into a legend, least of all him. So there is a built-in tension in ‘Tony,’...
HBO’s Green Lantern series lands August 16 as a slow-burn Southern murder mystery — ‘True Detective’ with a power ring. The most anticipated cornerstone of the new DC Universe is not a save-the-world spectacle — it is a murder mystery in the American heartland. ‘Lanterns’ premieres on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, August 16,...
Zoe Saldana’s Joe returns to the moral fog of the CIA’s Lioness program — with Taylor Sheridan again pulling the strings. Taylor Sheridan’s tense espionage drama is coming back for more. ‘Special Ops: Lioness’ has been renewed by Paramount+ for a third season, returning Zoe Saldana to one of the most demanding roles on television:...
In a Chicago downpour, Charli xcx turned a festival headline slot into a thesis on reinvention — and reviewers reached for the word ‘perfect.’ It rained on Charli xcx at Lollapalooza, and it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. Headlining the festival’s second night in Chicago on August 1, 2026,...
A slow-burning duet that took eight months even to reach the summit has now outlasted every No. 1 in the chart’s history — toppling a record set in 1953. On July 31, 2026, the Official Charts Company confirmed a milestone that had seemed almost unbreakable: ‘Rein Me In,’ the duet by Sam Fender and Olivia...
The Recording Academy created a category to honor Asian pop. BTS’s response: don’t box us in. In a move that has reopened a long-simmering debate about representation and recognition, BTS declined to submit new music for consideration at the 2027 Grammy Awards — a decision made just weeks after the Recording Academy introduced a new...
Cardio had its decades. In 2026, the culture picked up a dumbbell — and a protein shake. For most of the modern fitness era, the goal was to burn — calories, fat, minutes on the treadmill. In 2026, the goal is to build. Strength has decisively displaced cardio as the organizing principle of how people...