Lizzo is addressing the reception to her latest album, Bitch, which made headlines this month after failing to chart on the Billboard 200 despite her previous album, Special, debuting at Number Two with 69,000 equivalent album units earned in 2022. Of course, public perception of the Grammy-winning artist has changed within the few years between albums….
Spend a day at Shanghai Disneyland and you wouldn’t know Chinese consumers are struggling. Wang Jiandong and his girlfriend Yan Xu said they have been skipping meals out and scrimping on day-to-day necessities so they could afford to enjoy the park. “We save in our daily lives so we can spend more on trips,” Wang…
Niall Horan opened up about the death of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne in new interview with The Times U.K., noting that he spent time with Payne in Argentina a few weeks before he died. Payne died on Oct. 16, 2024, after falling from the third floor of a hotel room in Buenos…
The journalistic legacy of longtime National Catholic Reporter contributor Jason Berry has now been preserved by University Press of Mississippi as part of their Literary Conversations series. The new book Conversations with Jason Berry compiles 23 archived interviews in which Berry reflects on the forces that have shaped his work — including uncovering corruption in the Catholic…
