Hurricane Matthew is already responsible for the deaths of more than 280 people in Haiti, and now, strengthened into a Category 4 storm, it is directing itself at Florida’s coast. President Obama has called a state of emergency in both Florida and South Carolina, and officials are urging everyone to evacuate without…

It’s October, which means that many of you fine folk are jonesing for a few scary flicks. I am not among you, but I respect your tastes and thus present the trailer for Bryan Bertino’s The Monster.

You may recall that Emmy-nominated actor Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) was eminently displeased with the moving service he used this past summer — so displeased that he posted a scathing Yelp review. But as the seasons change, so do our sensibilities, and Burgess is angry no more.

Unfortunately, it’s proving very difficult to identify the robbers who broke into Kim Kardashian’s Paris apartment, stole her jewelry, and left her bound and gagged in the bathtub.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Heidi Klum is getting ready, Lea Michele reads about Lea Michele and there’s Usher.

In the upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns, Jane and Michael Banks will be meeting their old nanny 25 years later. Emily Mortimer has just signed on to play Jane, and she will probably have some hard questions for Ms. Poppins. For instance, “Why did you leave us?”

I had not heard this surprising little gossip until Thursday morning, when a tweet led me to Autostraddle’s most recent No Filter post, a series in which they “dissect celebrity Instagrams.” A necessary service, in my opinion, and one that can lead to plenty of surprises, such as today’s rumor that—based on a few…

Follow up: did you know Michael Peña is a Scientologist? A PROUD one. So don’t bother shaming him for it.

At this point, “creepy clowns” have been spotted in over a dozen cities, and at least one has supposedly lightly scratched a young boy. Whether or not we’re ready to admit it, our days of being able to walk down the street dressed as an evil jester with a chainsaw are over. Clown Purge has arrived.

Thanks to the ever-growing destructive power of Hurricane Matthew, the states of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina are in the middle of “the largest mass evacuation on US soil since Hurricane Sandy.” That means interstates clogged with bumper to bumper traffic, empty grocery stores, and Florida Governor Rick Scott…

Pennsylvania mom Elizabeth Scarlett Hawk was charged on Tuesday with child endangerment, after the father of her infant son, Jerry Hawk, brought him to a Fayette County Children & Youth Services location, from which he was rushed to the hospital. He claimed his estranged wife was “obsessed” with following a…

Children have naturally different levels of daring, but little girls are told to be careful far more frequently than little boys. Watching a five-year-old girl encouraged by her dad to climb on top of a shed, then jump from that shed to another shed, is wonderfully refreshing.

Before there was the internet, a constant stream of funny and informative and weird and outright dumb shit flowing endlessly into your eyeballs, there was the 1-900 number, which was pretty much the same thing, except into your ear and—if you didn’t watch out—potentially very expensive.

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Mariah Carey made her much-ballyhooed appearance on Empire Wednesday night, as a singer named Kitty (Lambs be damned, but we still know it’s Mimi) brought in to record with Jamal Lyon (Jussie Smollett). Because Mariah is never not Mariah, in the studio scene she wore a leotard and tights (y not?) while they sang an…

The presidential election isn’t the only nightmare awaiting us in November. Welcome to Congressional Cacophony, a feature on The Slot about House and Senate races that really, really matter. Suggestions? Pitches? Email us.

The Rolling Stones, who are, incredibly, still kicking it, are set to release a new album next month. In the meantime, they’ve released a new cover of the song “Just Your Fool,” last covered in 2010 by Cyndi Lauper, who, as it turns out, debuted it in live performance on The Apprentice—topical in so many ways.

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