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1 month ago | 
bookpage.com | Lauren Emily Whalen
Bellamy Rose’s Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder pairs the perky, fashion-forward heart of Legally Blonde with the cozy wit of Only Murders in the Building as its riches-to-rags protagonist attempts to get to the bottom of her formidable grandmother’s untimely death. At 28, Pomona Afton hasn’t accomplished much.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
bookpage.com | Lauren Emily Whalen
Everyone loves a housewife; housewife here meaning not the barefoot and pregnant archetype, but a girlboss with hair extensions, implants and a whole lot of attitude who’s always willing to tussle with her “friends” for an audience of millions. But what happens when a reluctant housewife ends up dead—and she’s only the first casualty of the new season?
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
queerty.com | Lauren Emily Whalen
The queers are out: floral dresses, pearl headpieces, black-net fascinators, rainbow bead earrings sported shine resplendent in the lobby of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
queerty.com | Lauren Emily Whalen
Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company brings out the heavy hitters for the world premiere of Little Bear Ridge Road by Samuel D. Hunter. The MacArthur Fellow, known for penning the screenplay of his play, The Whale, nabbed comeback-kid star Brendan Fraser a Best Actor Academy Award. Director Joe Mantello (Wicked on Broadway, FX’s Feud: Capote vs.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
bookpage.com | Lauren Emily Whalen
Podcasts, subreddits and social media: There are countless ways to feed constantly hungry true crime fanatics. But where does lore end and truth begin? Lucy Chase is an Angeleno with a deadly secret . . . that she can’t even remember. The snarky antihero of Amy Tintera’s Listen for the Lie has spent years away from her small, less-than-charming hometown of Plumpton, Texas, where one night after a wedding, her best friend, Savannah “Savvy” Harper, was found dead in the woods.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
intomore.com | Johnny Levanier |Jude Cramer |Joshua Mackey |Lauren Emily Whalen
A new thriller focused on queer people of color is headed to Hulu/Disney+. Much more than your typical love story, Culprits is part family drama, part heist thriller, giving new meaning to the phrase ‘be gay, do crime.’Based on the novel The Anthology Culprits: The Heist Was Only The Beginning by Richard Brewer and Gary Phillips, the miniseries adaptation will consist of eight parts. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett plays Joe, a business owner dad who seems to have it made.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
intomore.com | Johnny Levanier |David Hudson |Henry Giardina |Lauren Emily Whalen
A rising star in the UK Conservative Party, Suella Braverman has built a career on paranoia over migrants fleeing persecution. Now Braverman wants to undo a UN asylum convention that has been international law since the end of WWII. Specifically, she wants harsher laws in place for refugees fleeing gender or anti-gay persecution to find asylum. On Tuesday, Braverman gave a speech at right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute where she took aim at the UN’s asylum laws.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
intomore.com | Jude Cramer |Lauren Emily Whalen |Joshua Mackey |David Hudson
What do Viola Davis and Beyoncé have in common? A handsy fashion sense, apparently. Fans of both divas recently rediscovered a 2022 photo of Davis on the cover of ELLE Brazil, in which she’s wearing a dress that would instantly ring a bell for any member of the BeyHive. On the cover, Davis is absolutely devouring in a dress by Loewe, the same designer behind one of Beyoncé’s most iconic looks from the Renaissance World Tour.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
intomore.com | Henry Giardina |David Hudson |Johnny Levanier |Lauren Emily Whalen
“I feel like I’m talking to my dad right now,” Queer Eye icon Jonathan Van Ness told Dax Shepard during a recent episode of the latter’s podcast, “Armchair Expert.” It’s a familiar feeling for most trans and nonbinary people: you’re talking to someone who should know better, but somehow, they still don’t. It’s no wonder that the conversation between Van Ness and Shepard centered around the New York Times’ history of publishing bad faith studies and misinformation about trans issues.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
intomore.com | Lauren Emily Whalen |Joshua Mackey |David Hudson |Henry Giardina
(left to right) Brandon Rivera, Jocelyn Zamudio and Grant Kennedy Lewis. Photo by Michael Brosilow. At the center of Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City is America — specifically, who can live here and who cannot, and the choices the latter are forced to make. The play makes its Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company this fall. INTO sat down with the cast to discuss intersectional identity, safe spaces, and performing the showin a real-life sanctuary city.
