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There is a moment, midway through Tyler Cameron’s Dedication Night dance, when the performance stops being about steps. Skilled as Sharna Burgess’s choreography was, what the audience responded to — and what made Tuesday’s Dancing with the Stars episode feel genuinely historic — was everything the dance was carrying: a tribute, a secret and a … Read more

Somewhere in the middle of the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade — past the dog dressed as a trash can, beyond the chewing-gum machine with ears — the event stops reading as a costume contest and starts reading as something else: a love letter, written annually by a whole neighborhood, to the animals who organize … Read more

There is a version of this story that writes itself: a famous actress, an alleged mid-flight meltdown, handcuffs at JFK. It is also the least interesting version available. The story Selma Blair has actually been telling for eight years — since the day she told the world she had multiple sclerosis — is about something … Read more

There is a reason the most radical image of Janelle Brown’s year contains no drama at all. In Pete’s video from October 21, the Sister Wives star sits in a rocking chair beside her boyfriend, laughs at his prediction that they are looking at themselves in five years, and upgrades the forecast: let’s say 30. … Read more

There is a moment in every long cosmetic-surgery story where the procedures stop being about looking younger and start being about repairing the last procedure. Sharon Osbourne reached that moment years ago — she has the uneven eyes, the corrective operations and now the dent to prove it. What makes her October podcast appearance worth … Read more

Every season of this show has one night that explains why it has survived for 35 of them, and this year it arrived on October 20. Dedication Night is, on paper, a theme week. In practice, it is the moment the competition admits what it actually is: a show about people, performed by people who … Read more

Let us consider what, exactly, the Princess of Wales did wrong at the Oman state banquet: nothing, visibly, at any point, including the point at which her dress was trapped under a chair. That is the story. Not the snag — the absence of reaction to the snag. In an age when public figures flinch … Read more

Nobody issued a press release. There was no caption, no sonogram photograph, no carefully worded statement dropped at a strategically quiet hour. Zazie Beetz simply walked onto a red carpet in New York on October 20 wearing a striped skirt suit that showed her bump, stood next to her husband while he rested a hand … Read more

Every Halloween, Kim Kardashian competes with Kim Kardashian, and the judging is brutal because her back catalogue keeps raising the entry fee: full-body Mystique paint, a drag artist’s alligator, even a pregnant version of herself. This year she won the contest with the cheapest costume she has ever worn — her own daughter. Blue wig, … Read more

Let us appreciate the most honest act of parenting in celebrity news this year: Kelly Ripa looked at a ballot containing her own son’s name, in a category he had a real chance of winning, and voted for the other man. Then she announced it on television. If you are raising children and wondering whether … Read more