Nikki Yanofsky doesn’t miss a beat. Maybe the 20-year-old Canadian jazz-pop ingénue, who has sounded like Ella Fitzgerald incarnate since she was 13, has just been improvising the standards long enough for the skill to translate to conversation. Regardless, she’s so sure of herself, and so quick on the draw, ... More

These days, Nicky Whelan is a sexy, ruthless CIA agent and leading boss-lady of a small undercover unit of the United States government in El Rey’s popular spy thriller, Matador. On the show, Whelan’s character, Annie Mason, is fierce to the core. While Whelan shares Annie’s passion and drive, ... More

The latest work by biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty, recounts a history of scandals and troubled affairs that rocked the iconic American family and its patriarch, hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. The book is out this month; below, read an excerpt ... More

Take note: there is a new princess holding court in the pop queen kingdom. Skipping around the stage in her ‘50s floral prints, letter jackets and disarming mop of a faux-hawk, Betty Who is over six feet of uncalculated, fresh-faced charm—and she’s coming for the crown.   But she won’t be going ... More

Anna Popplewell is similar to her Reign character, Lola, in many ways. Both are warm, charming and a little daring, but you can bet that Popplewell wouldn’t find herself in similar circumstances as her often-troubled television counterpart. In the first season alone (spoiler alert!) Lola has experienced a scandalous pregnancy, ... More

Christopher Owens speaks in full sentences. Slowly, deliberately, he brings his thoughts back around on themselves, orating small compositions with artful clarity. But this comes as no surprise. A sharp intellectualism and a willingness to divulge his innermost quandaries and revelations is much of what has made Owens into a ... More

They're always on call, and the music never stops. When they're not performing, their lives consist largely of twelve-hour jam sessions at Paisley Park, Prince's mysterious Minnesota recording studio. They pretty much only stop to eat, sleep, and play Ping-Pong (Prince's vice of choice). There's no doubt they're in the ... More

Over the last decade or so, we’ve come to identify paparazzi as the aggressive, smarmy-looking guys who ruthlessly lurk outside of celebrity homes awaiting their next tabloid-worthy shot. But the term actually originated in the ‘60s, thanks to Frederico Fellini’s La Dolce Vida, which chronicled a week in the life ... More

In the opening moments of the music video for “The Chamber,” the first single off Lenny Kravitz’s new album, Strut, the screen is splashed with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche. “The true man wants two things,” it reads, “danger and play.” But for Kravitz, who’s got 25 awards-strewn years in the music industry behind ... More

On September 26, Amazon will release its latest original series, Transparent, which follows a Los Angeles family as they grapple with an array of discoveries—including the fact that their father, played by Jeffrey Tambor, is transgender, a plotline based in part of the life of creator Jill Soloway (Afternoon ... More