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Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, which means more parties and fewer excuses to show up in cat ears. If you are still costume-less, do not panic. The good news is that 2026 has already handed us plenty of ideas, and most of them are easier to pull off than you think. My one rule: pick a reference people will recognize from across the room, then nail one detail. That is it. Nobody at a dark house party is studying your stitching. Borrow from the music world Billboard's costume guide pointed to some big music moments this year. Bad Bunny's shrub look from his Super Bowl LX show is a fun group option, and it is the sort of thing that gets funnier with more people. If you want minimal effort, Pitbull is about a bald cap, aviators and a suit. A Charli XCX "Brat" nod can be as simple as a tank top, messy hair and dark glasses. I love these because they cost almost nothing. Go with a movie character Several outlets flagged Nikki from the horror hit Obsession as ...

Most charity galas are remembered by the people who attended and forgotten by everyone else within a day. The sixth annual Academy Museum Gala on October 17 went the other way. By the next morning, a film-world fundraiser had become one of the most shared pop moments of the month, and the reason was Taylor Swift. It is a little unfair to the honorees, so let me start there. Charlize Theron received the Icon Award from Sigourney Weaver. John Carpenter took the Luminary Award, presented by Robert Rodriguez, after Jamie Lee Curtis spoke about the lasting power of horror and the museum's new exhibition, The Horror Show. Colman Domingo received the Vantage Award from Tom Ford. The night, presented with Rolex, raised more than $14 million for the museum's exhibitions, education and screenings. That is the real purpose of the evening, and it deserves a mention before the music. Then came the set Conan O'Brien, her Toy Story 5 castmate, introduced Swift by calling her "Joh...

U2 are going back to stadiums, and I will admit the news made me a little emotional. The band has not played a stadium since The Joshua Tree Tour wrapped in Mumbai on December 15, 2019. Now The Greatest Show On Earth World Tour is official, with a first leg in Latin America and promises of much more. If you are thinking about going, here is how I would approach it. First, know what is actually confirmed. Right now that means six shows, all with Beck as special guest: Mexico City at Estadio GNP Seguros on February 23 and 26, 2027; Sao Paulo at Estadio MorumBIS on March 10 and 12; and Buenos Aires at Estadio River Plate on March 23 and 25. Two nights in every city tells you the band expects huge demand. Second, be skeptical of anything beyond those six. U2 says Europe and North America dates will be announced "in the coming weeks," and a homecoming in Ireland is "in the works." No cities, venues or dates have been named for those legs. Any list you see shared onlin...

If your feed has been full of hockey romance lately, you are not imagining it. Heated Rivalry Season 2 is filming in Toronto, the cast keeps growing, and fans are hungry for any scrap of news. The trouble is that a lot of what circulates online is guesswork. So here is a quick, honest guide to what is confirmed and what is not, plus a few personal opinions. When is it coming back? Creator Jacob Tierney has narrowed it to "late spring" 2027 on Crave in Canada and HBO Max. He also said, "I don't have an official date yet. I'm not hiding anything." So if you see a specific premiere date, it is not from him. Filming started on August 17, 2026, and continues through the fall. The episode count is also unofficial. Tierney has said he prefers six episodes a season, telling the Los Angeles Times he would "rather tighten the belt than get loosey-goosey." I agree with him. Six tight episodes beat ten with filler. What story does it tell? The season is ...

You would expect "you don't have MS" to be good news. For Christina Applegate, it was not, and the way she described that moment has stayed with me since I heard it. On October 20, in a two-part episode of MeSsy, the podcast she hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Applegate said her doctor came in and told her, "Congratulations, you don't have MS." Everyone around her was happy. She was not. "You don't get misdiagnosed and then all of the sudden I'm better," she said. "I haven't gotten better, Jamie! If anything, I've gotten worse." Losing an answer is its own kind of loss Applegate went public with an MS diagnosis in 2021. Since then she has written about it in her memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, built a podcast around life with chronic illness, and become, as she put it, one of "the poster children for MS" alongside Sigler. So the news did not only change her medical file. It knocked out the explanation she had be...

Turning 40 is a big deal for anyone. For Drake it came with designer handbags, a game show, the Backstreet Boys and an industry record, all inside one weekend. It would be easy to treat it as pure spectacle, but I think the weekend tells a sharper story about where his career stands. The party About 400 guests packed into Casa Cipriani in Lower Manhattan on Friday, October 23, a few hours before his birthday on the 24th. Reports say guests left with Chanel and Hermes bags, and a game-show-style giveaway offered cash prizes starting at $10,000 and topping out at $1 million. Drake wore a sparkling black tuxedo jacket with a diamond "D" pin, because of course he did. The musical surprise was the Backstreet Boys, with Drake joining them for "I Want It That Way." This was not random. In 2022 the group brought him out in Toronto and introduced him as their "sixth member," and he has called it one of the greatest songs of all time, tied to a memory from his b...