Jonathan Adler wants to prove that interior design can do good as well as look good. 

Melding his established talents with his passion for philanthropy, the 50-year-old designer has given a hotel suite in one of Los Angeles’s storied boutique hotels a super-glam makeover for an amazing cause. The (RED)-inspired suite at the Andaz West Hollywood, which began welcoming guests March 9, is aimed at giving its occupants “the most glamorous, luxurious vacation they could ever imagine,” he said. 

But, as Adler told The Huffington Post, the new suite represents more than just rest and relaxation. Thirty percent of the room rate, which ranges from $519 to $849 a night, will be donated to (RED), the HIV/AIDS advocacy organization founded by U2’s Bono and Bobby Shriver. 

While Adler supports a number of humanitarian causes, including cancer research and animal rescue efforts, he believes the fight against HIV/AIDS remains critical. “I came of age during the AIDS crisis,” he told HuffPost, “and my hubby Simon Doonan lost so many friends and coworkers to the disease, so it’s a cause that remains close to my heart.”

Like many Los Angeles hotspots, the Andaz West Hollywood is perhaps most associated with celebrity clientele. Part of the Hyatt Hotels and Resorts family, the hotel was previously known as the Continental Hyatt House but dubbed the “Riot House,” and a favorite hangout for The Rolling Stones and The Doors in the 1960s and ‘70s. (Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant’s iconic “I am a golden god” photo, which later inspired a scene in 2000’s “Almost Famous,” was snapped from one of the hotel’s balconies.) 

Adler said he nodded to that rock ‘n’ roll history in his design for the suite. “I wanted to create a suite that was louche and luxurious and a little bit sybaritic... I want every space I design to have a sense of place and to make you feel like the most eccentric, glamorous version of yourself.”

Maryam Banikarim, who is Hyatt’s chief marketing officer, told HuffPost that Adler’s “eclectic” style was the “perfect” choice for the suite. We’ve had a long relationship with (RED) – there’s a lot of great history there and we’ve been looking for ways to collaborate for quite some time,” she said. Adler, she added, “was totally into the rock ‘n roll history of the hotel and was super passionate about getting involved.”

In the end, Adler said he’ll be proud if the suite reinvigorates guests’ fervor in the fight against HIV/AIDS, even in some small way. “The biggest misconception,” he said, “is that it’s over.”

Take a peek inside the Andaz (RED) suite below. 

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Couples fight. This alone is not an indication of anything “wrong” in a relationship, but according to Pastor John Gray, the way you fight may be.

Pastor John, the first African-American associate pastor at Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch, says there’s one particular sign that your fights are unhealthy: “When you purposefully go out of bounds to harm the other individual with your words.”

As a wordsmith, Pastor John pays careful attention to the words he uses to communicate, but even he admits to slipping into an unhealthy fighting mode. “When I’m hurt, I use my words to convey my pain, and there have been many times when my words were out of bounds because I knew that if I said this, it would hurt [my wife],” he says. “I wanted my wife to feel the pain that I was experiencing in that moment.”

Like many who have said mean things with the intention of hurting a partner, Pastor John says he would feel immediate regret for his words. “I would apologize and I would be sincerely remorseful,” he says. “But it’s like shooting somebody in the thigh and then saying, ‘Can you forgive me right now?’”

Timing is crucial in these situations, he points out. Allow your partner to heal from the wound before talking about forgiveness, Pastor John suggests. And in the meantime, he offers this preventative piece of advice: 

“You’ve got to put boundaries around your disagreements.”

Pastor John’s new series, “The Book of John Gray,” premieres Saturday, April 15, at 10 p.m. ET, and he will also appear with Oprah on OWN’s “SuperSoul Sunday” premiere the following morning at 11 a.m. ET.  

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Julian Lennon wants to inspire kids to love and protect the Earth.

The musician, photographer and filmmaker appeared on the “Today” show on Tuesday to promote his new children’s book, Touch The Earth. The book is geared toward kids age 3 to 6 and takes readers on a journey around the world to help solve environmental problems. 

Lennon is very passionate about conservation. His founded an organization called The White Feather Foundation in 2007 to raise money for environmental and humanitarian causes.    

Speaking to Today Parents in the green room, he explained the origin of the foundation’s name. While on tour in Australia to promote his 1998 album “Photograph Smile,” Lennon met an aboriginal tribal elder, who asked him to bring awareness to the plight of his people.

The leader presented him with a white feather, which gave the artist goosebumps as it brought back a memory of his late father, John Lennon.

“Dad had said to me that if there was a way of letting me know that he was going to be all right, or that we were all going to be all right, it would be in the form of a white feather,” he explained.

“I just thought, well, it really is time to step up to the plate. Let me do what I can,” he added.

Lennon and his father had a strained relationship following the Beatles star’s divorce from his mother, Cynthia Lennon. Still, the author told Today Parents he’s made peace with his past “as much as one can.”

Said Lennon, “Forgiveness came to me a long time ago, on that front. This [book] is about making that connection with your parents and trying to understand how important that is when growing up.”

He added, “Most of my friends have kids ... I think today’s modern mothers and fathers are really quite incredible. I think they do a great job and I’m hoping this little book will help that along the way.”

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While critics were busy debating the merits of “Fearless Girl” ― that diminutive-but-defiant statue strategically placed in front of Wall Street’s resident “Charging Bull” ― the artist behind the old bovine was apparently asking, “What about me?”

According to The Associated Press, Italian-American sculptor Arturo Di Modica is accusing New York City of violating his legal rights by permitting the installation of “Fearless Girl” in front of his bull, without his permission.

Di Modica is expected to explain this accusation in a news conference on Wednesday, his attorney Norman Siegel claimed. The sculptor will be challenging the city officials who issued a permit for the bronze girl to stay until February of 2018, demanding that the city provide documentation behind the decision.

A day before International Women’s Day, “Fearless Girl” first appeared on the Wall Street traffic island, meant to symbolize the lack of women on the boards of U.S. corporations. Designed by artist Kristen Visbal, the statue was celebrated by some as a model of female empowerment and criticized by others as a form of pinkwashing. 

“Wall Street is a traditionally male environment and [the statue] says, ‘Hey, we’re here,’” Visbal told The Wall Street Journal. “To me, it says a woman can be delicate and petite, but strong.”

“Don’t let emotions about this piece of art fool you,” HuffPost’s Emily Peck countered. “That adorable, perfectly irresistible little girl is just a super-sophisticated bit of feminist marketing, used to make us feel good and do little that is substantive.”

Di Modica seems to agree, calling the statue an “advertising trick” created by corporations themselves ― Boston-based State Street Global Advisors and New York-based advertising firm McCann.

Di Modica installed his 7,000-pound bronze bull in 1987, not long after the stock market crash of that same year, The Guardian writes. He did so in the middle of the night, without a permit. Authorities originally removed the work, but later reinstalled it after public outcry made clear that New Yorkers wanted the bull to stay.

Visbal’s work was also installed in the middle of the night, though this time, with a permit. Similarly encouraged by fans, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last month that “Fearless Girl,” initially scheduled to be removed on April 2, would remain where she is until 2018. 

Displeased with that decision, Di Modica is fighting back.

“We’re all for gender equality,” Siegel, the former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union who’s handling Di Modica’s case alongside attorney Steven Hyman, told The Washington Post on Tuesday night. “But the questions are because there are other issues.”

“Men who don’t like women taking up space are exactly why we need the Fearless Girl,” de Blasio quipped on Facebook soon after.

A lawsuit has not yet been filed, added Siegel, who has yet to provide further details. The time of Di Modica’s Wednesday press conference is unknown.

This piece has been updated to include comments made by Mayor de Blasio on Facebook.

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For 16 years, Angela Maria Spring has worked as a bookseller ― most recently as the manager of Washington, D.C.’s iconic Politics and Prose bookstore. Now she’s planning to open her own store, Duende District, which will be run by a deliberately diverse staff.

On April 10, Spring launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a pop-up Duende District bookstore to operate at the 2017 Artomatic festival. Spring, who is Latinx and the daughter of a Panamanian immigrant, felt inspired to open the intentionally multicultural bookstore after several years at Politics and Prose. Though D.C. is a highly diverse city, she found herself in a primarily white neighborhood, working with white booksellers and catering to a largely white clientele.

“For five years, almost every other Latino I saw was cleaning somebody’s house or yard, taking care of someone’s baby or cooking someone’s meal,” she wrote on Kickstarter.

By launching her own bookstore, Spring hoped to give opportunities to colleagues of color and to build a literary space that put multiculturalism and diversity front and center. Creating a browsing space that’s “owned, operated, and managed by a majority of people of color,” she says in her Kickstarter video, can create a “high-quality, welcome experience for everyone.” 

A Publishers Weekly piece on the bookstore points to “the current political environment” as one motivation for Spring’s bold move. On the Kickstarter page, she describes the new venture as “part of my resistance effort.” But also, she told PW, the dazzling whiteness of the bookselling world was a long-time concern. 

As with every facet of the publishing industry, bookselling isn’t as diverse as the community it ostensibly serves ― an issue writer Roxane Gay addressed in a keynote at the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute in January, in which she argued that publishing and bookselling gatekeepers “don’t really want to do what it takes, to invest money” to foster true diversity.

Even apparent commitments to improving representation, may only hide still-severe problems. A significant percentage of children’s books today are about characters of color ― over 20 percent. But the percentage of children’s books created by non-white authors is much lower, suggesting that while white authors have changed their approach toward race, significant barriers remain for writers of color. 

Spring’s bookstore, and its Kickstarter campaign, encourage book lovers to get serious about diversity by supporting a business that doesn’t just welcome a diverse customer base, but gives power and voice to underserved communities. 

 Check out the Duende District Kickstarter.

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The “Deadpool” sequel just went maximum effort in a casting announcement that may change the world.

OK, that’s a little much, but really nothing makes sense anymore.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Deadpool’s “X-Force” collaborator Cable will be played by none other than Josh Brolin.

Writer Rhett Reese confirmed the news on Twitter: 

We’ve known Cable, the adult son of Cyclops, was coming for a while. It was teased in the “Deadpool” post-credit scene, and Reese and co-writer Paul Wernick previously told The Huffington Post he would be included. 

But Brolin also plays Thanos, the main antagonist in the upcoming “Avengers: Infinity War” movies. That means he’s starring as a villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and now a good guy in another superhero franchise. And, of course, Deadpool and the Avengers are both from Marvel Comics in the first place. 

But whatevs. Life is crazy.

Other actors were rumored to be up for the role, including Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt and Pierce Brosnan. In the end, you can’t mess with Thanos.

As Limp Bizkit might say in a time like this, “Deadpool” 2 will “keep Brolin, Brolin, Brolin, Brolin.”

H/T THR

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For a sketch about clowns, this isn’t very funny.

One of Louis C.K.’s strongest sketches from his recent “SNL” appearance, “Birthday Clown,” has been criticized for possibly ripping off Tig Notaro’s short film “Clown Service.” And the backlash has become so loud that Notaro is sharing her thoughts on the matter. 

“It has been impossible for me to ignore the cacophony of voices reaching out personally and publicly about the potential plagiarizing of my film ‘Clown Service,’” says the comedian in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.

From watching both videos, you can see distinct similarities, including the entire premise of a single lonely person booking a clown performance. 

Notaro says, “While I don’t know how all this actually happened, I did find it extremely disappointing.” 

She says a “writer/director” who was aware of “Clown Service” worked on Louis C.K.’s “Birthday Clown.” Notaro hasn’t talked to Louis C.K. in around a year and a half, and never gave anyone any permission to use her material. 

She concludes the statement, saying, “I hesitated to even address any of this, but I think it is only right to defend my work and ideas and moving forward, I plan to continue screening ‘Clown Service’ with the joy and pride I always have.”

The Huffington Post has reached out to Louis C.K.’s management for comment. You can read Notaro’s full statement below:

It has been impossible for me to ignore the cacophony of voices reaching out personally and publicly about the potential plagiarizing of my film Clown Service (a film that I screened at Largo in Los Angeles for over a year and it premiered at Vulture’s Comedy Festival in NYC as well as numerous film festivals around the country and I am currently screening on my national tour).

While I don’t know how all this actually happened, I did find it extremely disappointing.

Here is what I can tell you:

First off, I have recently learned that a writer/director who was fully aware of Clown Service when I was making it, actually worked on Louis C.K.’s clown sketch that is in question.

Secondly, Louis C.K. and I have not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half.

And finally, I never gave anyone permission to use anything from my film.

I hesitated to even address any of this, but I think it is only right to defend my work and ideas and moving forward, I plan to continue screening Clown Service with the joy and pride I always have.

H/T Entertainment Weekly

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As candy, Peeps are, well, not the tastiest treats in the Easter basket.

However, they can be quite a tasteful medium for artistic expression, as an arts center in Westminster, Maryland, is demonstrating.

From now until April 19, the Carroll County Arts Council is hosting its 10th annual PEEPshow, an event where people are whetting their artistic appetites by making sculptures using the marshmallow-like candies.

The contest has 151 entries so far, “de-peep-ting” all aspects of pop culture including Belle from “Beauty And The Beast,” Pikachu, and even “Grumpy Cat” (who doesn’t seem pleased.)

One Peep sculpture of one of the “Game Of Thrones” dragons features more than 7,500 Peeps, or more Peeps than anyone ever wants to eat ― ever.

The event is locally based, according to spokeswoman Sandy Oxx.

“Transporting these sculptures from far away would be difficult,” she told The Huffington Post.

But this year, for the first time, contest voting is now online giving anyone on the internet a chance to peep at the sculptures and help select a winner. It costs $1 to vote, with the proceeds going to benefit the Carroll Arts Center.

The grand prize-winning Peep piece will win, among other things, a giant plush bunny and a visit to the Peeps factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Peeps season usually ends at Easter, but Oxx says Peeps sculptures can last forever.

“Peeps have a two-year shelf life for eating, but I have some entries in my office that are 10 years old,” she said. “They get soft when it’s humid and crunchy when it’s dry.”

Check out some of our favorite entries below:

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“Beauty and the Beast” may take place in a little town, but the village has hardly been quiet. The reboot starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens crossed the $1 billion line at the worldwide box office, Disney announced in a statement issued Thursday.

This marks Disney’s second live-action remake to join the billionaires’ club, after “Alice in Wonderland” in 2010. “The Jungle Book” came close last year but ultimately stalled at $967 million. 

Without accounting for inflation, “Beauty and the Beast” is easily the most lucrative non-animated movie musical of all time. It’s the 29th title in history to hit $1 billion, a feat that 13 other Disney releases, mostly recently “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” have also accomplished.

“Beast” has consistently overperformed at the box office, spending two weeks in the No. 1 spot and another two at No. 2. Released March 17, the movie took less than a month to accrue $1 billion. “Rogue One” required 39 days, and “Zootopia” and “Frozen” both spread the love across approximately three months. “Captain America: Civil War,” on the other hand, needed only three weeks.

This news signals a bright future for Disney’s live-action onslaught, with remakes of “Dumbo,” “Mulan,” “The Lion King,” “Aladdin,” “The Little Mermaid” and other classics on the horizon. Lukewarm reviews and lingering controversy over the so-called “exclusively gay moment” did not prevent “Beauty and the Beast” from finding more than enough guests.

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Weeks ahead of the forthcoming Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, a classic dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, the author and the series’ star, Elisabeth Moss, discussed the story with Time.

The show, like the novel, follows a woman named Offred, who’s been enlisted as a “Handmaid,” or sex surrogate, for a couple with fertility issues. This setup is the norm in Gilead, a religious fundamentalist society that formed as a response to mass infertility.

And while the premise may seem extreme to some readers ― in fact, early reviewers of the novel dismissed it as implausible ― Atwood asserts that the world of The Handmaid’s Tale is nothing new.

“I made nothing up,” Atwood said in the Time interview, citing the Salem witch trials of the 17th century as an example of women’s oppression.

“The control of women and babies has been a part of every repressive regime in history,” Atwood continued. “Not much has changed.”

While the show was planned and shot before the 2016 presidential election, Atwood has taken its release as an opportunity to discuss today’s political issues, releasing a letter from PEN/America about the dangers of tyranny and speaking out on Twitter.

And she doesn’t seem to plan on going anywhere soon: In a recent audiobook update, Atwood hinted at the possibility of a sequel. 

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The emotional implications of being a black man in America are wide-ranging and complex, but notions of black masculinity have long hampered potential dialogue on this experience. 

#BlackBoyFeelings, which was released last Friday, is an anthology that unabashedly abandons the idea that black men shouldn’t be in tune with their emotions. The book is a collection of nearly 100 poems, essays, photos and art submissions from everyday black men expressing their feelings on everything from police brutality and assumptions that they’re poor romantic partners to the death of Prince. 

One of the book’s co-creators, Richard Bryan, a recent Colgate University graduate and Brooklyn native, said limited emotional outlets for black men can lead to self-destructive concepts of masculinity. 

“There is very little space for black men to genuinely show emotion and vulnerability,” Bryan told The Huffington Post earlier this week. “And this has led to an outpouring of toxic masculinity and a tendency to avoid addressing very real trauma.”

“I think the tendency is to lean toward apathy or to somehow try to numb the experience rather than working through the struggles,” he continued. 

Readers of #BlackBoyFeelings will find at least one antidote to this dearth of emotional outlets throughout the 218-page book. 

But you don’t have to be a man to know the importance of creating room for black men to express themselves. 

Bryan co-created the book with his friend and The New School senior Jeana Lindo. 

“As a woman, I want men to feel comfortable embracing the feminine parts of their nature and be more in tune with sensitivity and being nurturing,” she told HuffPost.

“Men are super-sensitive, yet unwilling to embrace their feelings and confront them within themselves and among their peers,” she said. 

Lindo was the one who incidentally coined the book’s title.

“I had gotten a haircut from a new barber and sent Jeana a text with something to the effect of ‘When you get a better line-up from a new barber and you feel like you’re cheating on your old one.’ To which she replied ‘#blackboyfeelings,’” Bryan recalled. 

“Upon seeing that, something immediately clicked in my brain and I called her up and was like, ‘Hey, we’ve gotta collect some more feelings and run with this,’” he said.

Lindo said the two recruited submissions for the book through friends, social media callouts and street encounters. Once submissions began coming in, Bryan said he was in awe of the response rate. 

“The depth and breadth of the submissions just reaffirmed the mission and the importance of what we’re trying to do,” he said. 

Bryan and Lindo want black men to know it’s OK to accept their emotions and vulnerabilities. 

“I honestly don’t think most black men even acknowledge that they’re in need of healing, much less actively seeking methods to take care of themselves,” Bryan said. “Hopefully, just reading the book and seeing the sentiments shared can help people on the path to greater self-care.”

The two are also looking to combat stereotypes while they’re at it.

“The main misconception facing black men is that we’re all scary or violent,” Bryan said. “That we’re only either perpetrators of or victims of crime. Or that we’re all entertainers or ball players.”

“This work was created in order to combat these types of tropes that have been ... proliferated for literally hundreds of years now,” he said.

In other words, buck a stereotype and heal yourself.

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Natalie Portman has always loved the theater, so it’s no surprise that the Oscar-winning actress attended theater camp growing up. Her favorite home movie, in fact, showed a theater-camp performance of “Cabaret,” where Portman and her fellow campers sang and danced on top of chairs in front of a small audience. It’s a fun throwback to watch, but the reason Portman loved the video has little to do with her own performance.

As Portman explained on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1999, this home movie contained “a little surprise” that she couldn’t stop giggling about. About 50 seconds into the above clip from the show, it’s clear why.

On Portman’s left was her friend Lauren, who tumbled to the stage when her chair slipped out from under her during a song-and-dance number. The audience gasped, but Portman found the video hilarious ― and shareable. She even took it to the set of “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” back then to show to her fellow cast members.

“Does [Lauren] know you’re taking this tape around, showing it?” Oprah asked Portman.

“I think she shows it too!” Portman said.

Portman went on to say that she hadn’t seen her friend since their days at theater camp, to which Oprah offered up a surprise of her own.

“Natalie doesn’t know this, but her friend Lauren is here today. Come on out, Lauren.”

Watch the friends reunite in the clip above.

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“The Arrangement” will continue to expose the darker side of Hollywood for a second season, E! announced on Thursday. 

The show follows movie star Kyle West (Josh Henderson) and actress Megan Morrison (Christine Evangelista) as they navigate their relationship and careers after Megan is contracted to be Kyle’s girlfriend. 

In a press release, the network announced that Season 2 will consist of 10 more episodes and will also see the return of Lexa Doig and Michael Vartan, in addition to Henderson and Evangelista. 

The show’s renewal comes after only six episodes have aired, though the leads are already hyping what’s to come on the big finale.

Evangelista and Henderson appeared on the “Today” show Thursday, where they announced the series was renewed and Evangelista promised that viewers will be “shocked” by the May 7 finale. 

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Eataly, the fancy Italian market chain fronted by chef Mario Batali, is down to protect a good Italian meal in need.

The famed eatery recently announced its plan to back an innovative air-filtration system meant to conserve Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic 15th-century painting “The Last Supper,” which depicts what is possibly the most epic Italian meal of all time.

Da Vinci’s tempera-on-gesso masterpiece, depicting Jesus and his disciples deciding to sit on only one side of the dinner table, has been in a steady state of decline since its creation in 1498.

The artist’s experimental construction method ― not to mention the fact that the work was once stored in a prison ― contribute to its rapid fading, which is aggravated by the “microscopic dust” of the visitors who make the pilgrimage to see it at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. As of now, restoration attempts have been largely unsuccessful, and only 1,300 visitors are allowed to see the work each day in order to limit the dust-induced damage. 

According to an Eataly spokesperson, Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism has developed a system designed to protect this invaluable relic of Italian culture, and Eataly has graciously agreed to help foot the bill.

Italian research institutes ISCR, CNR, the Polytechnic Institute of Milan and the University of Milano at Bicocca have teamed up to create a mechanism that will filter in around 10,000 cubic meters of clean air into the convent where the work is housed. That’s almost three times the current amount of sweet, un-dusty air coming in at present. The system aims to protect da Vinci’s work for the next 500 years, Eataly wrote in an email to The Huffington Post, meaning that all of your potential great-great-great-grandkids will get to see Judas, Peter and good ol’ Bartholomew in the flesh ― or, at least, in the paint.

The installation is slated for completion by 2019, which also marks the 500th anniversary of da Vinci’s death. 

If you’ve previously felt irked by Eataly’s high prices, know the profit from that $9 bag of pasta is going to a great place.

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It’s been nine days since Pepsi unleashed that incredibly tone-deaf ad starring Kendall Jenner.

The company went on to issue an apology, saying they “missed the mark” and regret putting the reality TV star at the center of their dumpster fire of a commercial. 

Jenner, however, has remained silent on all social media platforms, while her sisters tweet, Snapchat and Instagram away. That is until now. 

On Thursday, Jenner tweeted for the first time since the debacle. No, it wasn’t an apology. It wasn’t an appeal to those who might be offended by the ad. It wasn’t a genuine engagement in the issues, like police brutality, at play here. 

It was a photo of herself on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar’s 150th anniversary issue.

”Stay tuned,” she wrote alongside the photo announcing herself as the cover star. 

If ignoring her responsibility in this mess is how Kendall is going to play this, then we’d prefer to tune out. 

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When word spread that The Washington Post’s annual Peeps diorama contest would be canceled after 10 years, the nation needed a hero. Who, in these trying times, would stand up for elaborately constructed scenes of garish colors and marshmallow confection?

Washington City Paper would, it turns out.

“The Grim Peeper tried to slay the Peeps diorama contest beloved by newspaper readers across the country,” the paper said in a post outlining the rules of its own diorama contest, published in March. “At City Paper, we couldn’t fathom a spring without Peeps dioramas. Many of our readers are craft-loving weirdos. We are unabashed promoters of puns, a fixture of past Peeps dioramas.”

Only residents of nearby D.C., Maryland and Virginia could win — part of the final round involved appearing with your masterpiece (master-Peeps?) in person — but anyone was welcome to submit.

The winners capitalized on pop culture of the past year, including an elaborate staging of “The Peeple v. O.J. Simpson.”

There were several artistic submissions, too, including one miming Annie Leibovitz’s iconic photo of Keith Haring and several interpretations of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrors,” on display at the Hirschorn Museum in D.C. until May 14. 

The paper shared the full list of winners on its site. The takeaway here? That craft-loving weirdos will always find a way.

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The collective sorrow from “Star Wars” fans over Carrie Fisher’s death continues to be as vast as space.

Lucasfilm produced a Star Wars Celebration event that is currently taking place in Orlando through Sunday. The gathering has already featured appearances by “Star Wars” actors, such as Mark Hamill and Felicity Jones, and also debuted a new video tribute to Fisher, who died on Dec. 27, 2016.

Above, you can watch the nearly five-minute segment.

Composer John Williams also conducted a musical tribute to Fisher, which seemingly received a standing ovation.

Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, spoke about her mother at the event on Thursday, wearing a Tom Ford dress modeled to look like Princess Leia’s iconic outfit.

“She was imperfect in many ways, but her imperfections and willingness to speak about them are what made her more than perfect,” Lourd told the crowd. “My mom, like Leia, wasn’t ever afraid to speak her mind and say things that might have made most people uncomfortable, but not me and not you. That was why she loved you, because you accepted and embraced all of her.” 

The late actress’ brother, Todd Fisher, revealed last week that he and Lourd gave permission to Disney to use previously shot footage of Carrie in the next two “Star Wars” movies. 

“I think the legacy should continue,” Fisher told New York Daily News.

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Actor and martial arts star Donnie Yen is done with United Airlines.

The Chinese action star took to social media to share his reaction after his 9-year-old son asked about the incident surrounding passenger David Dao, who was violently dragged off the airline’s plane. 

Asking social media users how the “Rogue One” actor should explain the airline’s “proudly assaulting a 69-year-old man” to the boy, Yen made it clear that the airline would no longer receive his business. 

“My nine-year-old son saw this news on TV and was horrified, ‘Baba, what happened?’” Yen wrote in the post before noting that Dao was “discriminated” against. “No one should be treated this way. ... United was never my choice of airline, now they are black listed.”

Yen is one of countless Asians who have expressed their outrage towards the airline after the graphic footage went viral. Dao’s legal team has said that they do not believe race was a factor in his removal from the plane. Regardless, many including Yen think that discrimination played a role in the matt. 

With fellow passengers previously quoted as saying Dao is either Chinese and Vietnamese, social media lit up with messages from Asians on various foreign social media platforms condemning the airline’s actions and encouraging others to stand up to racism. And several, like Yen, vowed they’d boycott the airline in the future, even cutting up their United membership cards. 

Demetrio said Thursday that as a result of the incident, Dao suffered a broken nose, lost two front teeth and received a concussion. A lawsuit from the passenger is “likely.” 

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What could be more romantic than a rambling declaration of love full of references to the Jewish holiday of Passover?

Brooklyn artist Sam Corbin ― the same performer who brought us post-election lady puns ― is back with a pun-filled video themed for the holiday commemorating the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt. 

Staged as an awkward monologue to a lover, Corbin humorously ties the Israelites’ struggle for freedom to a young woman’s inner turmoil over whether or not to say yes to a marriage proposal.

“Asking me to marry you was un-Pharaoh-kay?” she says to her beau, played by actor Roger Miller. “I mean, is it Aaron of a girl who loves a guy and doesn’t know if she wants to Miriam?”

Aaron and Miriam were both siblings of Moses and played important roles in the Exodus story. The Pharaoh, of course, is the main aggressor in the story ― the one responsible for keeping the Israelites as slaves in the first place.

Corbin, who also works as the managing editor of Brooklyn-based blog Brokelyn, packed into the two-and-a-half-minute video a wide range of romantic concerns ― from the difficulty of voicing one’s emotions to the fears many young people face about the future.

In the end, though, love wins out. “I wouldn’t ask you to risk everything for me. B-ris-ket,” Corbin says. “Cause Yehuda heck knows?”

Watch Corbin’s full tongue-twisting video above.

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David Dao, the passenger on the United Airlines flight who was violently dragged out of his seat by police on a plane Sunday, has suffered a broken nose and missing teeth. 

He has also been compared to civil rights hero Rosa Parks. 

On Tuesday, Dao’s lawyer Thomas Demetrio appeared on national TV and said he received an email that described Dao as the modern-day “Asian version of Rosa Parks.”

“Dr. Dao, I believe to his great credit, has come to understand that he is the guy, the guy to stand up for all passengers going forward,” Demetrio said.

Many on Twitter have criticized the comparison, saying Parks, who refused to be removed from her seat on a segregated bus during the height of the Jim Crow era, showed a form of defiance and experienced struggles that have absolutely no parallel to Dao’s experience.

Yes, Dao’s mistreatment is certainly something to be angry about, and yes, he deserves respect and justice. But we can understand and unpack his case without comparing it to the very specific and very pointed level of racial hate black people like Parks experienced ― and continue to experience.

Users on Twitter, many of them black, collectively weighed in to shut down the comparison and flatly label it offensive. Others even responded directly to USA Today’s tweet to slam the question they proposed: “Is United Airlines Passenger Dr. Dao an ‘Asian Version of Rosa Parks?’”

Read some of the reaction tweets below: 

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