Author: Michael

John Galliano’s 2027 Met Gala exhibition will not go on as planned, the British fashion designer announced on Monday. His “Horizons” theme has seemingly been scrapped altogether due to his past controversies — particularly, “the hurt” he caused to the Jewish and Asian communities. “I am profoundly grateful to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and particularly to Max Hollein, Andrew Bolton and Anna Wintour, for the extraordinary honor of proposing an exhibition devoted to my work,” Galliano shared on Instagram. “To have my creative journey considered by an institution that I have admired throughout my life moved me more deeply…

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Welcome back to the “Media Front” column. By the time the jury began deliberating in the Lindsay Clancy case Thursday, two versions of the trial had already unfolded. One took place inside Plymouth Superior Court, where jurors heard conflicting testimony about Clancy’s mental health and considered whether she should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children. Her defense argued that she had lost touch with reality because of postpartum psychosis; prosecutors maintained that she knew right from wrong and acted deliberately. The other unfolded across courtroom livestreams and social platforms, where viewers clipped testimony, debated evidence and built…

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I choose you, Mimikyu! Pokémon is returning to the world of animated feature-length films in 2027 — but this time, the company is betting on its iconic trading card game. “‘Pokémon: Wild Card’ tells the exciting story of a Pokémon TCG player and his partner Mimikyu,” per the logline. “When the time comes to put their cards on the table, will they have what it takes to achieve their goals?” This marks the franchise’s first animated movie since 2020’s “Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle.” The news was announced on Sunday at the 2026 World Championships fan convention in San…

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Over the course of six weeks, reality TV sensation “Love Island USA” transforms its contestants into some of the biggest celebrities of the summer, with the buzziest characters cracking into the millions on their social media accounts by the time they leave the villa, whether or not they found love. Take Season 8 winner Trinity Tatum, who came into the Peacock show as a former hardware store employee with just 5,000 followers. She quickly became a fan favorite on the dating show where strangers couple up to win money, and the first Islander to reach 1 million followers on Instagram.…

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