Not everything works in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story - how could it, when the 1961 classic is nigh unimpeachable? - but his visual translation of some of the original's latent ideas makes it a complementary piece. At once rougher and more dazzling, it has tremendous high points that seldom o...

The five-minute rap, filmed in Detroit and titled “The Storm,” “This is the calm before the storm,” Eminem announces as the video begins. Throughout a series of extemporaneous verses lasting nearly five minutes, Eminem unleashes his anger against Trump, noting “racism’s the only thing he’s fantasti

On the opening night of Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne World Tour’ in Vancouver, she picked up a rainbow flag that someone had thrown near her stage and held it aloft. Said Gaga, as she draped it on her piano bench: “Needless to say, I have a lot to say about this issue. But the most important thing that I hav

Tim Wilson proposes to his partner during his speech on marriage equality in the House of Representatives. The Liberal MP's voice breaks with emotion as he says: 'There's only one thing left to do: Ryan Patrick Bolger, will you marry me?' Bolger, seated in the gallery, beams and says yes and his ans

Noah and PJ are married now, but they shocked their wedding guests when it was time to take the floor for the traditional “first dance” as a couple. What they didn’t tell celebrants was that they had a surprise in store – complete with a smorgasbord of gay anthems and an ending that brought down th

International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth's horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Today Burbank described seeing the comet two nights ago as "the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space," in an intervie...

Wicked proposal 12 25 2015. Josh Daniel Green, a dancer in Broadway’s Wicked, got a major surprise at a Christmas performance curtain call when he thought he was posing for a standard holiday cast photo. The whole thing turned out to be a setup for a marriage proposal from his boyfriend, Daniel Rob

One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. The two men conclude that there is a connection between the dream and their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised he cant remem...

Country music duo Brothers Osborne released a video last week for their new single “Stay a Little Longer” which offers something rare in country music: a look into romantic moments between gay, interracial, and older couples. “That song gives [audiences] everything that we are. It starts off and the

US President Barack Obama has unveiled what he called "the biggest, most important step we have ever taken" in tackling climate change. The aim of the revised Clean Power Plan is to cut greenhouse gas emissions from US power stations by nearly a third within 15 years. The measures will place signifi...