Michael Cuby

5 days ago | wmagazine.com | Michael Cuby |Ryan Lowry |Tori López

Alan Cumming wears a Valentino jacket, shirt, and pants; Valentino Garavani scarf. Over your four decades in the entertainment industry, your career has spanned television, movies—from Spy Kids to Burlesque—and theater. Now you’re also in the reality TV world with The Traitors, a Mafia-inspired competition show that pits “faithful” contestants against undercover “traitors.” It is gearing up for its fourth season. Did you think it would become such a sensation?

3 weeks ago | them.us | Michael Cuby

With over one million followers on both Instagram and YouTube, it’s hard to imagine a time when comedian Matteo Lane wasn’t hugely popular. Still, he’s quick to remind you that, despite working his way through the New York standup scene for nearly two decades, he didn’t truly hit his stride until about three years ago. Before that, he was like any other struggling queer comedian: toiling to make a name for himself in an industry that didn’t seem to care either way.

1 month ago | them.us | Michael Cuby

For last night’s Met Gala, a sea of celebrities, models, athletes, and fashion tastemakers descended upon the Met Museum steps dressed to the theme of “Tailored For You” to celebrate the opening of the Costume Institute’s latest exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. With celebrities pulling inspiration from the show, an ode to everything revolving around the Black dandy, it was a beautiful parade of Black-indebted fashion codes.

1 month ago | them.us | Michael Cuby

Once again, we have reached the First Monday of May — and for the Met Gala 2025 festivities, the most fashionable A-Listers you know are descending upon the Met Museum to experience the Costume Institute’s latest exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, which “will take the Black dandy as its subject, examining the importance of clothing and style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora,” according to Vogue.

1 month ago | marieclaire.com | Michael Cuby

In 2021, Kandi Burruss overheard a comment that she says crystallized her mission as a theater producer. She was listening in on a post-show talkback for the first play she had produced for Broadway, Thoughts of Colored Man, when an older white woman asked a question. “At the time, there were a couple other shows that were starring African-American talent on stage,” Burruss recalls to me on a mid-March afternoon in Manhattan, twirling her fork around a strand of Maine lobster spaghetti.