When the world first met Audrina Patridge on MTV’s The Hills, it was clear that she had an affinity for beachwear. “I was always in a bikini and they would called me the bikini queen in all the media,” she says. Since those days in Los Angeles, the reality star ... More

The Strumbellas are in the home stretch of a North American tour following the release of their third album, Hope. Although Toronto’s folk-pop group propelled to mainstream notoriety in early 2016 with their catchy anthem “Spirits,” the group has been performing together since 2008.  I caught up with Simon Ward, lead singer ... More

The iconic rock band born out of New York City, The Strokes, released their debut album Is This It nearly 15 years ago. The guys regrouped in 2013 to deliver a fifth album, Comedown Machine. Since then, all of its members have embarked on their own passion projects with an exception ... More

Upon stepping onto the CBS Studio Center soundstage of “Doubt,” Lauren Blumenfeld says she felt at home. Not because filming the forthcoming legal drama, which premieres in February, required her to return to her native Los Angeles, but rather because its elaborate sets and lighting were comforting reminders of a ... More

When it came to casting the leading man in Loving, writer and director Jeff Nichols says simply, “It was Joel’s time.” Loving is Nichols’ fifth movie, the latest in a lineup of complex, genre-toppling films that garnered fervent critical applause, if tepid mainstream momentum. But it’s Nichols’ time, too, and ... More

United Kingdom's alternative rock band Broken Hands debuted their album Turbulence, an instant hit in the UK. While listening to the band’s high-energy, booming songs, including the hit single “Meteor,” you’d never guess that the house where Turbulence was realized is located just outside of quiet Canterbury in the charming village of Kent. The band's ... More

For nearly the past decade, the writer and director Jeff Nichols has been playing hard to get. Granted, it’s left him hungrier than the movie studios he’s flirting with, but the 37-year-old filmmaker—whose latest work, Loving, premieres in November—has a notion he can’t shake: that studios should invest in films ... More

In the relay of life, Mo McRae is not afraid to pass the baton. According to the actor, who appears in Fox’s new sports-centric drama, “Pitch,” much of his success is due to support he received as a kid who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, generally known as ... More

There was something endearing about the statement dress that Natalie Portman wore to a press day in New York this October, puffed dramatically at the shoulders and tenting over her pregnant belly. In a suite buried deep in the Peninsula Hotel—with large cardboard Jackie cutouts scattered around the premises, and ... More

It’s late at night. A young man gets out of a car and staggers up the driveway. He stumbles inside and makes his way to the doorway of a bedroom, his figure casting a shadow onto the bed where his wife is sleeping. He says her name quietly, but she ... More