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Mornings can be unpredictable, whether you accidentally sleep through your alarm or discover there’s (surprise!) even more traffic than usual on your commute. One thing that is within your control? Enjoying perfectly golden toast for breakfast — if you have the right toaster, that is. As far as consistency goes, the Whall Four-Slice Toaster‘s earned high marks from Amazon shoppers, …

WATCH IT: Bradley Cooper conducts his latest Oscar hopeful, Maestro A new directing star was born when Bradley Cooper’s 2018 remake of A Star Is Born shot to the top of the box office charts. Now, the actor returns behind the camera with a long-gestating biopic about famed Jewish American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Cooper directs and stars in …

Nicki Minaj canceled an Amsterdam tour date days after being arrested there for marijuana possession. The “Super Bass” singer said she felt “subhuman” during her encounter with Dutch police. 🚨What just happened? Less than one week after the performer’s May 25 detainment at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport — for which she was fined and released — she called off a second …

“Here it comes …” For the first time, retro episodes of Bob Barker’s The Price Is Right are now streaming on daytime TV — and, even though it wasn’t a sick day, I watched along. The game show channel Buzzr added the series, hosted by Barker for an incredible 35-year run, to its lineup for retro viewing, from 3 to …

Albini in his Chicago studio in 2014. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) You might not know the name Steve Albini. But you’ve almost certainly heard his work. Albini, a musician, producer and revered audio engineer who worked with countless alternative rock bands and artists, including Nirvana, Pixies and PJ Harvey, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He …

It’s a thrilling time to be a Dune fan. Denis Villeneuve’s box-office hit, Dune: Part Two, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler and Florence Pugh, finally drops on HBO’s Max this week. The same streaming platform that just teased the upcoming Dune: Prophecy prequel series, premiering this fall. The wait for Dune 2 to hit streaming may have felt extra …

Five years after A Star Is Born scored eight Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper is back in the awards race with Netflix’s Maestro — his sophomore effort as a director-star, as well as his second movie set in the music world. This time, the actor plays a real-life music titan, Jewish American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, whose storied career included …

Kanye West’s legal troubles are piling up like Yeezy sneakers in an Adidas warehouse. On June 3, the rapper and designer’s former assistant sued him for sexual harassment and wrongful termination. Lauren Pisciotta, who worked for West for two years, alleges that he sent her sexually explicit texts and behaved inappropriately in her tenure with him. West has not yet …

Arriving at a big ceremony, viewers watch as the young female protagonist onscreen steps out in a formal dress and heads into an event. There, in a beautiful gown that merely enhances her inner beauty, we watch as the male lead is stunned by her presence upon first glance. He sees her in a different light, maybe even the way …

All the world’s a stage for Taylor Swift. The pop star kicked off the European leg of her “Eras Tour” in Paris with four back-to-back shows from May 9 to May 12 at Paris’s La Défense Arena. The performances were her first since the release of her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19. Swifties have become well-versed …