Entertainment

Humans of New York is the brainchild of New York City-based photographer Brandon Stanton. Started in 2010, Stanton’s street-portrait photoblog has garnered critical acclaim and even a best-selling book. With only a camera in hand, Stanton hits the streets of New York City capturing photos and stories from random people. The photos and stories are then…

Color us amazed, but the Waffle House restaurant chain has found a way to garner more fans by using today’s USA vs. Belgium World Cup game as leverage. What’s more American than some waffles—well, unless those waffles are Belgian waffles? The Waffle House came up with the novel idea of boycotting Belgian waffles—or Belgium waffles,…

Bobbi Kristina Brown is all in her feelings after getting wind of an interview Angela Bassett had with Entertainment Weekly. In the interview, Bassett spoke about the direction the biopic was going in. Bassett touched on the fact that Houston’s death and other negative aspects about her life would not be a part of the…

VH1 decided it would be a great idea to host a Twitter Q&A session with Robin Thicke, asking people to tweet Thicke questions using the hashtag #AskThicke. If they didn’t see how this could possibly go wrong, I wonder where they were when #AskRKelly happened, because that was pretty much an example of not knowing your…

Back in the day, Wu-Tang Clan sung about cash ruling everything around them, but from the looks of a recent job posting, that sentiment doesn’t correlate into compensation for potential employees. According to a post on Craigslist, the Staten Island, N.Y.-based rap group is in need of employees, but you may want to slow your…

Over the weekend, New York City’s PIX 11 news anchor Mario Diaz was conducting a live report on the arrest of actor Shia LaBeouf when he became the victim of videobomb. But it wasn’t just any person trying to get his or her shine on—it just happened to be Grammy winner Erykah Badu. Badu, wearing…

Two weeks, ago Lifetime announced that Disney star Zendaya Coleman would play the lead role in its biopic chronicling the life of R&B star Aaliyah Haughton. The new Lifetime movie is supposed to be based on the best-seller Aaliyah: More Than a Woman, by former Time magazine music editor Christopher Farley. So far it has a working…

Rihanna may have deleted her Instagram account, but she’s here to remind you that she’s still photogenic and slaying the fashion game—just in a slightly different way: clothed. The Bajan beauty appears on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia’s July/August issue adorned with a beautiful, black Arabian ensemble. She dons a mesh veil, Cartier jewels and…

Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker, Beyond the Lights tells the story of a troubled superstar in an internal battle with herself.  Written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who also directed Love & Basketball,  Noni Jean (Mbatha-Raw) is a successful artist facing the pressures of stardom after she wins her first Grammy. After an attempt to…

Director Malcolm Lee has decided that audiences won’t have to wait another decade for his next offering in The Best Man franchise. At the American Black Film Festival last week, Lee, along with star Morris Chestnut, gave Vibe a few details about what to expect in the third installment. “It’s going to be some romance, there’ll…