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Grey’s Anatomy boss explains Teddy and Owen’s emotional exits after 17 seasons

Grey’s Anatomy boss explains Teddy and Owen’s emotional exits after 17 seasons

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Meg Marinis has spoken about the “painful” conversations that went into writing a rare happy ending for longtime characters Dr. Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) and Dr. Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd). After nearly two decades on ABC’s long-running medical drama, on-and-off couple Teddy and Owen bid an emotional farewell to Seattle Grace Hospital in Thursday’s season 22 finale. Unlike many characters whose time on the show ends tragically, however, the two are spared and move to Paris with their two children. “I feel like we gave them a beautiful ending,” Marinis told The Hollywood Reporter, adding that the “very difficult and painful conversations” about writing off Teddy and Owen began shortly after the New Year. Marinis revealed that the writers toyed with numerous storyline endings, including an “iconic Grey’s Anatomy death” for Owen, but ultimately decided against a definitive …

Michèle Lamy, Fashion Iconoclast, on Striptease, Artificial Intelligence, Rick Owens, and Zohran Mamdani

Michèle Lamy, Fashion Iconoclast, on Striptease, Artificial Intelligence, Rick Owens, and Zohran Mamdani

Published by Sam Flores

“Those visions of the astronauts,” she says, referring to Artemis II and the photos of our planet they shared, “were absolutely incredible, but you could see [against] the pictures of Earth in ’72 from Apollo [17], the Earth is now, grayer,” she says. “I mean, wake up. It’s crazy. It’s in front of everybody’s eyes, and then there’s [some] trying to kill populations for oil. It’s very disturbing,” she says. “A life achievement award… you always think that your voice, or what you do, you express it and it’s going in the right direction, but right now it’s a failure.” Yet Lamy is still hopeful. “But I can never give up,” she says. “There are people who have been fighting all the time, and we are expressing ourselves.” Only at the tail end of our conversation does fashion come up as a topic. I ask her what she makes of the way the industry has changed. She first mentions Owens’s shows and Rei Kawakubo’s for Comme des Garçons as good examples of self-expression in fashion. …

From job-shamed to “The Pitt,” Geoffrey Owens’ full-circle moment

From job-shamed to “The Pitt,” Geoffrey Owens’ full-circle moment

Published by Sam Flores

When Geoffrey Owens was photographed working at a Trader Joe’s in 2018, the reaction was swift, and, in many corners, cruel. The former “Cosby Show” actor became the subject of viral job-shaming, with critics mocking him for working retail decades after his television success. But the backlash didn’t land the way some expected. Instead, Owens received an outpouring of support from fellow actors and fans who pushed back against the idea that honest work should ever be a source of embarrassment. The moment sparked a broader conversation about the realities of working actors’ lives, and the instability that often comes with careers in entertainment. Now, seven years later, Owens’ story has come full circle. The actor is a guest star on the most recent episode of “The Pitt” (Season 2, Episode 13) as a cardiothoracic surgeon, marking yet another on-screen role in a steady return to television and film. While not framed as a direct response to the earlier controversy, the casting offers a quiet rebuttal to the narrative that once surrounded him. Owens has continued …

Simone Biles reveals exciting new home after move with husband Jonathan Owens

Simone Biles reveals exciting new home after move with husband Jonathan Owens

Published by Daniella Wilson

Simone Biles has given fans a glimpse into her next chapter, revealing where she and husband Jonathan Owens will be calling home following his major NFL move. Taking to Instagram, the Olympic gymnast shared a series of photos from inside the Indianapolis Colts’ facility, including a sweet snapshot of the couple smiling together as Jonathan signed his contract. Alongside the post, Simone wrote: “excited to call Indy home this upcoming football season… beyond proud of you @jowens! keep defeating the odds, i love you.” The post marks a significant shift for Simone and Jonathan, who are preparing to relocate to Indianapolis after the NFL star signed a one-year deal with the Colts. Having only recently settled into their custom-built Texas home, the move signals yet another transition for the couple, who have spent the past few years navigating life between cities due to Jonathan’s football career. In the carousel, Simone documented the milestone moment, showing Jonathan at the signing table alongside the Colts’ iconic horseshoe logo, as well as behind-the-scenes glimpses of the stadium and …

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Thundercat, Who ‘Fangirled Hard’ at a Rick Owens Show

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Thundercat, Who ‘Fangirled Hard’ at a Rick Owens Show

Published by Jenni Sidey

When I ask Thundercat what his life was like before music, he shrugs. “There is nothing prior to music,” the funk virtuoso tells me. Fair enough. Thundercat, born Stephen Lee Bruner, is a Grammy-award winning bassist was raised in Compton in a household full of drummers—his father was a drummer for some of Motown’s finest acts, and his mother was also a percussionist and flautist. His brother, Ronald Bruner Jr., has played for Kamasi Washington, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar; both Bruner brothers appeared on To Pimp a Butterfly. So, why did Thundercat gravitate towards the bass? “That’s a million-dollar question,” he quips. “I don’t know, maybe I just didn’t want to do what everybody else was doing in the house.” After some years of studio work playing for others, Thundercat blossomed into a solo artist, releasing his debut studio album, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, in 2011. His music is complex, funky, challenging yet accessible, and owes its sound to his myriad influences taken from the historically rich tones of black music: jazz, hip-hop, …

Why right-wing media can’t stop Candace Owens

Why right-wing media can’t stop Candace Owens

Published by Sam Flores

The conservative media machine is currently discovering, to its evident horror, that it has no idea how to shut one of its biggest creations. Candace Owens was handed a megaphone by the late Charlie Kirk, feted by Donald Trump and praised by Focus on the Family as one of “the many Black giants of the conservative movement.” Now she is being called a vampire and a schizophrenic by the very people who built her platform. And she keeps growing. With Kirk’s assassination at a Turning Point USA event in Utah last September, the MAGA movement faced a genuine tragedy. His widow, Erika Kirk, stepped in to lead the organization. But within weeks, before the grief had even begun to settle, Owens began publicly questioning the circumstances of Kirk’s killing and spinning conspiracy theories on her podcast. As a former TPUSA communications director — she resigned in 2019 after praising Adolf Hitler — Owens knew her voice had special resonance. What started as insinuation soon metastasized into a serialized spectacle: “Bride of Charlie,” a multi-episode YouTube …

Zibby Owens to Stage Live, Online Adaption of ‘On Being Jewish Now’

Zibby Owens to Stage Live, Online Adaption of ‘On Being Jewish Now’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Zibby Owens is bringing On Being Jewish Now to the stage. The entrepreneur, editor and media mogul has partnered with The Braid to stage an adaptation of the best-selling anthology book that was collected and published as a way to represent the Jewish experience amid the rise of global antisemitism in a post-Oct. 7 world. The production will open in Los Angeles on March 22, before moving on to other cities as a mini-tour of Southern California and the Bay Area. It will also be presented as an online production via Zoom. On Being Jewish Now spent 27 weeks atop the USA Today bestseller list. It features essays from Jewish writers, thinkers and cultural voices, and those works will be turned into an ensemble performance for the stage show that will feature “a small cast dressed in plain black clothing.” From the creative team: “On Being Jewish Now’s theatrical version dramatizes what, until now, has been rarely depicted onstage: the interior, lived experiences of Jews confronting the emotional fallout of a world reshaped by conflict …

Rick Owens Found Your Next Haircut: Meet the ‘Skullet’

Rick Owens Found Your Next Haircut: Meet the ‘Skullet’

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free. On Thursday morning, exactly five minutes before the Rick Owens show was scheduled to start in Paris, the designer introduced me to a quiet artist from Berlin named Bernardo Martins. Martins, whose online moniker is Figa.Link, uses AI to create vivid and unsettling portraits of people with sunken cheeks, hardcore face piercings, and mullets. But these are not e-boy mullets. They are much more alien and architectural, with blunt bangs and rainbow tails. Some are aggressively reversed (party in front, business in the back). Others are spiky and scary, or wavy and wild. He calls his signature look “skullets.” “They’re really beautiful,” Owens said. “How did you describe my work earlier?” Martins asked. Owens paused to think. “Savage,” he replied. “Brutal.” Christina Fragkou Christina Fragkou Backstage, hair stylists were turning Martins’s digital art into reality, attacking wigs with scissors and dye and gluing tendrilly hair extensions …