fangirls

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With Taylor Swift's highly anticipated The Eras Tour now playing Australia, the behaviors and practices of pop music fangirls are again in the spotlight. From the devastation of missing out on tickets to live performances, the dedicated effort of camping at arenas to see their stars up close, to the ways these fans…

Zendaya attended the NAACP Image Awards recently, where she was nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series (for Euphoria) and Entertainer of the Year. And she arrived in a stunning black and green dress from Versace. While the internet has been collectively losing it over her red carpet look, Kareena Kapoor joined the bandwagon. On Sunday, the actor took to Instagram Stories to share a video of Zendaya walking the red carpet at the recent awards show. Also read: Kareena Kapoor stuns in red as she joins cousin…

On the morning of 25 August 2014, a 16-year-old girl arrived at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in a baffling condition. She was short of breath but had no chest pain. She had no history of any lung condition and no abnormal sounds in her breathing. But when the emergency room doctor on duty pressed on her neck and chest, he heard noises like Rice Krispies crackling in a bowl of milk. Spaces behind her throat, around her heart and between her lungs and chest wall were studded with pockets of air, an…

Journalist Kaitlyn Tiffany was 19 when she first watched 1D: This is Us, a documentary about the British boy band One Direction. Tiffany came away from the viewing unimpressed; the five boys were kind of boring, she thought, and every song sounded the same. Yet just a few months later, there she was belting out the lyrics to “Story of My Life” as if the world depended on it. Tiffany took to One Direction’s online subculture because she found a community that, like her, reveled in supporting their favorite artists. Over…