Bethel, Ohio Republican Police Chief Chad Essert, arrested on 14 counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. | YouTube screenshot Chad Essert, the 44-year-old Republican police chief of Bethel, Ohio, was arrested and indicted last Thursday on 56 counts of sexual battery and 14 counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. He faces
Austin Powers 4 is happening, and if you’re one of the many who just read the headline when Mike Myers confirmed as much, you might think you’ve heard all you need to know. However, the reality is there’s much more nuance to Myers’ recent confirmation, which, for this longtime fan, really didn’t feel different than
In the audiobook of Mikki Brammer’s Good Joy, Bad Joy (11 hours), Joy Bridport is a woman who has always chosen stability and respectability, steering clear of the chaotic way of being practiced by her outgoing lifelong best friend, Hazel. At 89, Joy is content with her careful life—until Hazel delivers devastating news that forces
Brenda Song Shares How ‘Home Alone’ Inspired Safety Lesson for Her and Macaulay Culkin’s Kids Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song are celebrating their sweet life. The couple—parents to children Dakota, 5, and Carson, 3—rang in nine years together with Culkin commemorating the huge relationship milestone with touching words about their deep connection, as well as
Don’t worry, darling, Olivia Wilde is doing just fine. The Invite director addressed speculation about her health after a red carpet photo of her from the San Francisco International Film Festival went viral in April. For Wilde, it was “insane” to see social media users claim, as she put it, that she was “looking like
Marks & Spencer (M&S) announced the signing of a new franchise agreement in the Philippines with PT Mitra Adiperkasa Tbk (MAP), the leading lifestyle retailer in Indonesia. M&S’ ambition is to build a trusted global brand through capital light partnerships which leverage the expertise and infrastructure of strategic franchise partners in established markets. UK retailer
Two Shell have detailed their next project. Landing October 16 via Young, Infinite Now follows the anonymous London group’s last studio album, 2025’s IIcons, and includes the new single “Thing About You.” Below, listen to the ultra-digital (and slightly creepy) two-step track, which the pair originally premiered at their Dekmantel set last summer. Infinite Now
Raised in Vancouver but having cut his teeth in the LA hard rock world, Ray Ray Stone has a style that blends blues, metal, and classic rock, among other influences. When he’s not playing and recording music, he is also a motivational speaker who discusses his journey of being sixteen years sober. I sat down
Pride Month and World Cup fever collided in West Hollywood over the weekend as Pride House LA/WeHo opened its doors for four days of programming centered on sport, identity and community ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games. Presented by the Out Athlete Fund and hosted at Beaches Tropicana, the inaugural Pride House activation transformed opening
Christopher Nolan has spent the 21st century becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest and most successful directors. Known for crafting movies that are technically excellent, action-packed, epic in scale, and narratively surprising, he’s moved back and forth between a variety of genres throughout his filmography with ease. Nolan spent his early years tackling thrillers like Memento
If you felt a disturbance in the force earlier this week, it was probably just the Book Riot editorial team making exclamation points both literal and spiritual about the news that Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel is a WWII spy caper. Due out March 9, 2027 (smash that preorder button), Miss Lambert Steps
Zendaya is shaking up her red carpet look. One day after Tom Holland confirmed that he and the Euphoria actress had indeed already gotten married, she put a spotlight on her wedding band with a new sparkling piece of jewelry. After all, as the couple posed for the Spider-Man: Brand New Day photocall in Amsterdam
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s Daughter Zahara Files to Legally Remove Dad’s Last Name Angelina Jolie isn’t shying away from the important discussions. More than a decade after she underwent a preventative double mastectomy, The 51-year-old detailed how she’s used her new film Couture to spark a conversation about her family’s history with breast cancer
Last summer I watched a guy in cargo shorts, white tube socks, and a faded concert tee try to take his wife out to a beachfront dinner. She wasn’t happy. He wasn’t comfortable. And honestly, neither was anyone else at the table. The beach is one of the trickiest places for a man to dress.
If you walked anywhere near Midtown Manhattan over the last decade, you were likely bombarded with a fleet of rickshaws blasting the 2009 concrete-jungle anthem “Empire State of Mind” through makeshift speakers. To some who live here, it’s one of the reasons to avoid Times Square—that is until last week, when the New York Knicks’
In a bizarre video that is being compared to a Saturday Night Live sketch, the office of the U.S. Ambassador to The Bahamas, led by appointee Herschel Walker, warned Americans visiting the archipelagic country that “Jet ski rentals pose a serious risk of injury, death, and sexual assault.” In the video, Walker said that injuries
Every time I hear an Avengers: Doomsday cast member hype the movie up, my excitement for the film on the 2026 movie schedule increases exponentially. Case in point, Ebon Moss-Bachrach just obsessed over working with Robert Downey Jr. on this upcoming Marvel movie, and it was the best. Unlike a good chunk of the Doomsday
The lacunae in our family histories are often sites of deep pain. When our elders refuse to tell us their stories, we are left not only with large gaps in our understandings of the contexts of our lives but also with the echoes of the hurt they surely felt. While we might not want to
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