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The feminist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot announced on March 6th that they’ll be going on tour this spring! The tour will include six stops in Vancouver, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Guadalajara, and Trenčin, Slovakia. Three of the shows will be festival performances, which includes the Belltown Bloom festival in Seattle, Washington on May 5th, where they will be headlining. (Artists such as Mannequin Pussy and Skating Polly will also be playing Belltown Bloom, so it’ll be a bit of a feminist utopia.) Other festival performances include...
The youngest child of a Korean mother and a Black American father, Dana Davenport grew up on a military base in Seoul, South Korea. Not much for academics as a teen, she tells me that her first foray into the world of art was born out of a desire to lighten her class load. “I took a yearbook class so I could skip class to take pictures,” the Los Angeles and N.Y.C.-based artist says with a chuckle. From there, a natural interest in photography and...
You might have noticed director Sofia Coppola trending on Twitter this morning and gotten excited for a potential new project, or for updates on the Priscilla Presley biopic she’s helming. It unfortunately was neither of these things. Instead it was because Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars’s 16-year-old daughter, Romy Croquet Mars went viral after posting a TikTok complaining that her famous parents wouldn't allow her to charter a helicopter.  With this (since deleted) TikTok, Mars has added another piece of content to the great nepo baby...
Based on a true story,The Lost King , directed by Stephen Frears, introduces audiences to Philippa Langley, a British woman with no formal academic training who, in 2012, helped find the lost grave of King Richard III underneath a parking lot. When the film opens, Langley is an almost-divorced office worker struggling with a misunderstood chronic illness. A performance of Shakespeare’s play about the infamous Middle Ages monarch reinvigorates her; she becomes convinced that Richard III was unjustly maligned and she subsequently joins a club of “Ricardians”...
As stated at the beginning of each episode, Swarm “is not a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is intentional.”  Show creators Donald Glover and Janine Nabers weren't playing around about this. According to Nabers, “This story is 100 percent taken from real events and real internet rumors and real other things, true crimes that have happened between the years of 2016 and 2018.” Here are 7 real-life events that inspired some of the darkest (and most thrilling) moments in...
Actress Tessa Thompson discusses what it means for her to be an artist, the Creed films, her friendship with Michael B. Jordan, coming out in the public eye, and how she wishes to “expand the way that a woman like me is perceived” in Hollywood. Read highlights from the convo below, and be sure to check out the full article (with interview by Sabrina Ford and photos by Phylicia J. L. Munn) in BUST magazine's new Spring 2023 issue, on sale now,  or subscribe today for...
Singer, songwriter, actress, icon, legend, and cat lover Taylor Swift made an announcement on her Instagram yesterday, March 16th, that she would be releasing four songs at midnight in honor of her upcoming tour. Three of the four songs she released were re-recordings of some of her old hits, (now branded with Taylor’s Version, of course). Those included, “Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version),” “Safe & Sound (featuring Joy Williams and John Paul White) (Taylor’s Version),” and “If This Was A Movie (Taylor’s Version).” Both “Eyes Open” and...
Talented photographers from around the world are donating their art for a good cause, and you can be a part of the effort. The artist collective SIX.TWO Editions is selling incredible photography prints from over 200 artists, with all proceeds going to organizations that provide earthquake aid to the people of Turkey and Syria. Earlier this year, devastating earthquakes ravished communities in Turkey and Syria. The total death count is more than 50,000, with an estimated 44,000+ deaths in Turkey and 5,000+ in Syria, making it...
If you’ve been a fan of Miley Cyrus since her double-life, blonde wig, Disney star era, then you are no stranger to the ever-changing genres in her discography. Her most recent album, Endless Summer Vacation, released this past Friday, takes us on a journey through her eclectic musical evolution.  The pop sensation’s jarring ride throughout her 17 years in the entertainment industry made her a staple in the tabloids. Since her release of Younger Now in 2017, she has proved to all observers that she doesn’t...
On Tuesday, a freelance journalist by the name of Lachlan Markay decided he wanted to attack Meg White’s drum skills. Meg White is an American drummer who makes up one half of the rock duo The White Stripes with ex-husband Jack White. Specifically, (in a since-deleted Tweet) Markay wrote, “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would’ve been with a half decent drummer. Yeah yeah I’ve heard all the ‘but it’s a carefully crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. I’m sorry Meg White was terrible...