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Brooklyn’s Brucie Will Have A Beyoncé-Themed Valentine’s Day Menu
Did Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s performance of “Drunk In Love” at The Grammys make anyone else blush? Our own Kristin Iversen even took time to highlight it as a sign of just how important marriage has become...
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No, Beyoncé Isn’t Wearing Pants on the Cover of TIME. Get Over It.
Time magazine released its “100 Most Influential People” issue today and the cover features none other than the indisputably influential Beyoncé. Profiled by Sheryl Sandberg (Lean In), Beyoncé is...
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Watch the Video of Solange Attacking Jay Z In an Elevator While Beyoncé Stood...
Starting something?photo by iO Tillet Wright Via TMZ, we just watched what might be the most important video of all time today. In what appears to be security footage, the music industry’s royal...
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Jay And Bey Visited The Kara Walker Exhibit When You Weren’t There
Photo: Beyoncé’s blog Brooklyn conversation piece of the moment, Kara Walker’s Domino Refinery exhibit “A Subtlety,” has attracted a fair number of considered essays, bewildered visitors, and...
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Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Gossip Industrial Complex
Image via Beyonce’s Instagram It is late July. Half of everyone you know is off Instagramming the Hamptons, and in between the weekly international news horrors and everyone’s thoughts on the Kim...
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Beyoncé Is a Feminist Now That It’s Cool to Be One
At the MTV Video Music Awards on Monday night, Beyoncé stood in front of an enormous projection of the word “FEMINIST,” because now she is one without qualification. A little over a year ago, after...
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Anne Helen Petersen on Scandals of Classic Hollywood
For most of us, celebrity gossip is a pastime. For Anne Helen Petersen, a staff writer at Buzzfeed and the author of Scandals of Classic Hollywood, it’s an academic pursuit. Petersen earned a PhD from...
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Beyonce and Jay Z Are Abandoning Us, Moving to LA
The days of spotting Beyonce and Jay Z at Roberta’s or a Brooklyn Nets game or latest Williamsburg warehouse art exhibit are over, at least for now. Both of them are betraying us all and moving to...
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As Usual, Kanye West Is Right About Everything
Kanye and North Westphoto via Kim Kardashian’s Instagram At last night’s Grammy awards, Kanye West proved something to everyone watching at home which, frankly, we all should have known anyway: He is...
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Now Lena Dunham Is Leaving Brooklyn
Lena Dunham reading at BAM Photo by Beowulf Sheehan, courtesy of BAM First Bey and Jay decamped for the West Coast, and we were sad that we would never run into them at Roberta’s. And now Lena Dunham,...
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Objects of Desire: Throne Crown from WXYZ Jewelry
Subtlety has its place—we’re big fans of the no-makeup look (with some smudged eyeliner, but still), and rarely do much more than comb our fingers through our hair—but then there are those times when...
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Beyoncé Kindly Agreed To Appear On Coldplay’s New Party Anthem “Hymn For The...
We already knew that Beyoncé would be appearing on the new Coldplay album, A Head Full Of Dreams and now that collaboration is out courtesy of Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 program. It’s called “Hymn For...
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Brooklyn Yogis, They Flow Hard: Inside Y7, The Yoga Studio For People Who...
If I did this every day I’d become a different kind of woman. That’s the thought that crosses my mind at the end of my first Y7 class, as I lay drenched in sweat in a position I’ll soon learn is...
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The-Dream Dropped An Album Of Sam Cooke Covers Just In Time For Christmas
As one of R&B’s most popular stars goes through a public meltdown, another of its quietest forces has blessed us with a Christmas gift. Today, The-Dream has shared not simply a Sam Cooke album,...
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Album of the Month: Chairlift’s Moth
Moth opens with a command, urging your eyes toward the sky: Look up. For Brooklyn pop experimentalist duo Chairlift, this doubles as an actual visual cue, and a spiritual nudge out of self, toward...
View ArticleHere’s The Dixie Chicks Doing A Song Off Beyonce’s Lemonade
When Beyoncé’s new album Lemonade dropped a couple weeks ago, I jokingly tweeted that Beyoncé’s take on a country song, “Daddy Lessons,” was better than anything off Sturgill Simpson’s new album. Now,...
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Where We Go When We’re Quiet: On the Sounds and the Silence of Beyoncé’s...
“Where do you go when you go quiet?” Beyoncé asks in Lemonade’s opening sequence. The answer is incidental to the question being asked. It reminds me of the ones my mother would ask my father after...
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A Body in Worship: On the Dueling Gospels of Lemonade and Coloring Book
If European folk songs, with their narrative storytelling and neat rhyme schemes, form the bones and structure of the romantic ballad, then the gospel hymn is its blood and marrow, infusing all the...
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The 16 Songs Of Summer 2016
It was 80 degrees yesterday and I had no idea what to wear–I wore a skirt that Marilyn’d up repeatedly, reminding me that the mere act of possessing a human body is sometimes exhausting enough in...
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Views From The 7 (Train) After Beyoncé’s Formation World Tour
Photo credit: Daniela Vesco via beyonce.com When a Mets game lets out of Citi Field, the stampede down the stairwells, across the blacktop, past the old Shea Stadium home run apple, through the...
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