Nadia Santiago
Nadia Santiago is a writer who lives between the clouds and the coastline, and writes about all the things your heart knows but your mouth can never quite say.
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Drake’s “Make Them Cry” just broke hip-hop’s all-time Spotify single-day record. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” had it.
Two years ago Kendrick Lamar released “Not Like Us,” the Drake diss track, and most of the culture decided the rap battle was over. The song hit number one, swept the Grammys, and Kendrick performed it at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show. The consensus hardened: Kendrick won. Drake’s response was to go quiet on…
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Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” was the hardest movie he’s ever done. “By far. Not even close.”
Matt Damon has been doing physically punishing shoots for 30 years. The Bourne movies. “Ford v Ferrari.” “The Last Duel.” “The Martian,” where he played a man stranded alone on another planet. He spent 91 days as Odysseus on Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer, shot across Greece, Sicily, Iceland, Scotland, Morocco, Malta, Western Sahara, and…
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Martin Short, on losing his wife Nancy and daughter Katherine: “I don’t see any difference between mental illness as a disease and cancer as a disease.”
Content warning: this article discusses suicide. Martin Short spoke publicly this week, for the first time, about the death of his eldest daughter Katherine. He sat with Tracy Smith for CBS Sunday Morning and gave a New York Times interview published this week. He drew the parallel between her death and his wife’s directly. Martin…
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A Widower Spent $500,000 Proving He Was Right to Keep His Daughter Away From Her Grandparents. The Judge Agreed.
Sherry Naso was 37 when she died of a brain tumor in April 2024. Her parents, both doctors, had spent months telling her the returning symptoms were Prozac withdrawal and that she should wait it out. Court records contain text messages in which they discouraged her from seeing another doctor. A family friend who is…
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Colleen Hoover Readers Have Been Arguing About Verity’s Ending Since 2018. The Author Already Took A Side.
Verity’s plot hinges on two documents the character wrote: a manuscript that paints her as a monster, and a letter claiming the manuscript was fiction. Hoover has named her side: “I’m team manuscript.” The letter was her cover. The book itself preserves the ambiguity. Some readers have stayed in the letter camp even after Hoover…
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The Real Meaning of Cassie’s Cleopatra Monologue in Euphoria Season 3 Episode 5
Cassie Howard walked into a soap opera audition in Season 3 Episode 5, recited her measurements for the camera, blew a kiss, and then opened Act 5 Scene 2 of Antony and Cleopatra. The producers on the monitor shifted in their chairs. Lexi was dumbfounded. The speech Cassie chose is Cleopatra’s refusal. After Antony is…
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Two Names, Three Signatures: The Euphoria Season 3 Legal Theory About Cassie Howard Everyone Is Talking About
Three contracts. Three signatures. Two different last names. In Season 3, Episode 5, Cassie signs Maddy’s management contract as Cassie Jacobs. She signs Brandon Fontaine’s party agreement as Cassie Howard. She signs the L.A. Nights audition sheet as Cassie Howard. Lexi catches the audition sheet immediately: wrong name, family ties, booked the role anyway. The…
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Poker and Polo: The Euphoria Season 3 Theory That Proves Rue Survives
In Episode 4, Rue is in the most dangerous position she’s been in all season. The DEA flipped her to get to Laurie, but Paladin’s death destroyed her relationship with Alamo. The bridge she was supposed to walk across doesn’t exist anymore. So she improvises — pitches Alamo on using her Mexico connection to open…
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Sam Levinson Used Jules To Air Grievances About His Own War With Critics and Censors. The Episode Is Airing While the FCC Does the Same Thing to Trans Content in Real Life.
Sam Levinson has spent 3 seasons being told he goes too far. Season 1: the nudity, the drug use, the sexual content involving minors. Season 2: the same conversations, louder. Critics called it exploitation. They called it gratuitous. They called it trauma p*rn dressed up as prestige television. HBO backed him. The show kept going.…
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Federal Agents Can Legally Lie To You In An Interrogation. Euphoria Season 3 Built An Entire Scene Around What Happens When You Lie Back.
Rue Bennett (Zendaya) is 22 in Season 3, five years out of high school. She’s been swallowing fentanyl balloons across the U.S.-Mexico border for 2 years, 12 runs total, trying to pay off a $43.8M debt to a dealer named Laurie that started at $100K. Episode 3 ends with DEA agents pulling her over. Episode…
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Sabrina Carpenter Wore A Dress Made Of Film Strips From The 1954 Movie That Shares Her Name
This is the kind of Met Gala look that takes a minute to fully absorb. Sabrina Carpenter, as a member of the host committee, walked the 2026 carpet in a custom Christian Dior gown designed by Jonathan Anderson — constructed from rhinestone-trimmed celluloid film strips pulled directly from the 1954 Audrey Hepburn film Sabrina. Stills…
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The “Lobotomized Nate” Fan Theory Went Viral, But It Skips This One Crucial Fact About Covert Narcissism
The “lobotomized Nate” complaint, at its core, is about competence. Fans are mourning the loss of Season 1 & 2 Nate’s tactical precision — the man who was always three moves ahead, who held guns and leveraged information and never let anyone see him sweat. Season 3 Nate gets his toe cut off at his…
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Tan France Dyed His Signature Silver Hair Dark For A Film Role
Tan France started going gray at 12 years old, growing up as the son of Pakistani Muslim immigrants in Doncaster, England. He spent decades hiding it before turning the silver quiff into the most recognizable hair in fashion television. The dark hair is for his first major film role. He’s playing book agent Aidan Sullivan…
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Barry Keoghan Just Addressed The Sabrina Carpenter Cheating Rumors That Made Him Go Off Grid For 16 Months
Barry Keoghan is the Irish actor who broke out as the unsettling lead in Saltburn and earned an Oscar nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin. He dated Sabrina Carpenter, the pop star behind Espresso and Please Please Please, from late 2023 until December 2024. When the relationship ended, a rumor spread online that he had…
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Megan Thee Stallion’s Fans Are Hiring Etsy Witches To Hex Klay Thompson Hours After She Announced Their Breakup
Megan, 31, ended her nine-month relationship with the Dallas Mavericks guard, Klay Thompson, 36, on Saturday, April 25, with an Instagram Story accusing him of cheating, getting “cold feet,” and questioning monogamy after she stood by him through his basketball season.
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Lil Nas X Heads Back To Studio After Assault Case Dismissal
Lil Nas X was walking down Ventura Boulevard in his underwear and cowboy boots at 5:40 a.m. He charged at 3 LAPD officers. He was facing 5 years in prison. Shortly after the arrest, Hill posted on Instagram: “the last four days have been f*cking terrifying” but “your girl is gonna be OK.” He’d posted…
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“We All Had The Same D*mn Life”: Keke Palmer And Demi Lovato On Being Told They Were “Mature For Their Age”
Keke Palmer was fifteen years old, starring on Nickelodeon’s “True Jackson, VP”, and secretly dating a man in his twenties. She didn’t tell her parents. She didn’t question it. In her mind, she had a full-time job and was living in an adult world, so dating an adult made sense. “At fifteen, I’m thinking like,…
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And Just Like That, Winter Dragged Us Harder Than We Ever Dragged Carrie Bradshaw
Honestly, we’re all Carrie Bradshaw and we need to stop pretending we’re not. First snowfall? We’re her. Bundled up in something ridiculous, romanticizing the whole thing, calling our best friend like, “It’s SNOWING. Isn’t this magical? I feel like I’m in a movie.” We’re making hot chocolate we won’t finish. We’re lighting candles. We’re writing…