by Gil Kaufman 25 mins ago

For the fifth night in a row, the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, were aflame on Wednesday night as angry citizens battled police over frustrations about the shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown.

Citing safety risks, officials have declined to name the officer who fired the deadly barrage of bullets that killed the 18-year-old or offer details about events leading up to the shooting. Against that backdrop, protesters took to the streets again and faced off against officers in tactical gear who were armed with what was described as “high-caliber automatic weapons” briefly aimed at the crowd.

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Despite requests from police to disperse before sundown, CNN reported that photographers captured images of young men lighting Molotov cocktails as well as crowd-control stun grenades that had been detonated in the street. At one point during the night, police used sonic cannons and fired tear gas canisters at a crowd huddled around a gas station that has become a nightly gathering point for the protests. With guns raised, the officers reportedly warned the protesters to turn back, marching slowly in riot gear toward the gas station and ordering the crowd, and some reporters, to turn off their cameras.

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by Rob Markman 16 mins ago

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence know a thing or two about Hollywood blockbusters and now it appears that the two funnymen will unite for a third time and complete a trilogy to their “Bad Boys” franchise.

“I believe so yes,” Lawrence told Conan O’Brien on Wednesday night after he was asked if the long-awaited “Bad Boys 3″ was a possibility.

The original “Bad Boys” paired Smith and Lawrence as two smart-aleck detectives who take down a drug cartel; it was released in 1995 and spawned a sequel eight years later in 2003. Both films were directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

“I just talked to Jerry yesterday and he said it’s real,” Lawrence confirmed. “They’re working on a script, they’re getting close and it all looks good.”

by Nadeska Alexis 1 min ago

OVO Sound is on the rise, and one of Drake’s newest signees, PartyNextDoor, is already fraternizing with the Hollywood set. In his video for “Recognize,” the Toronto singer/songwriter commands the obvious Drizzy cameo — but who would’ve expected Kendall and Kylie Jenner to show up?

The Jenners join him in two separate scenes, and it looks like we’ll probably be seeing more of the Kardashian Klan in rap videos. This week we also saw Khloe make her debut in French Montana’s “Don’t Panic” video. (P.S. Is it just me, or does it look like OB O’Brien is making Kylie a bit uncomfortable in that last scene?)

PartyNextDoor hit the stage during Drake’s 5th annual OVO Fest in Toronto earlier this month, to perform his breakout hit “Recognize.” He got a warm reception from the crowd — many of whom sang the words along with him — and seemed pretty comfortable on stage.

His PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO album is out now.

by Gil Kaufman 5 mins ago

She’s 13, likes apricots, collecting Band-Aids, building popsicle stick castles by herself, Scuncis, chilling, drawing Pegacorns (that’s a pegasus and a unicorn hybrid she made up) and wearing Scrabble name necklaces. She’s Natalie Benson and she’s.. EWWW!!!

After teasing her glasses-wearing, brace-face alter-ego Natalie last week, Taylor Swift finally joined “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon (we mean Sara, with no H, because h’s are EWWWW!!!!) on “EW!” Wednesday night. She showed off her drawings, danced to Selena Gomez’s “Come & Get It” and revealed that she thinks yield signs, airplane mode, rice pudding and getting back together are EWW!

by Marissa G. Muller 7 mins ago

If you’re headed back to school, Beyonce has you covered—and if you aren’t, well, you’ll probably wish you were. Our girl Bey simultaneously just took away all of the anxiety (and dreaded crowds) of school supply shopping season and gave us graduates a reason to be nostalgic about it with the new merch she’s selling on her site. Her new gear is also another reminder of something we’ve known for a while: Beyonce makes any activity better.

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Seriously, only Yonce could get us excited about a bunch of pens and notebooks. In the “Back to School” bundle, you’ll find a set of 14 pencils named for each song on her self-titled masterpeice. Yes, there’s a “Flawless” one and it writes in 24-karat gold. JK, but how can your writing not sound infinitely better when it’s being scribbled with a Beyonce pencil? Aside from actually writing with it, you could also flaunt it around the classroom and send subliminal messages à la Cher Horowitz. The bundle also includes two Angel composition notebooks (a perfect title for a makeshift diary), “Flawless” and “Beyonce” pencil cases that could double as sunglasses cases, “Mine” and “Beyonce” totes, a Beyoncé poster, and a Beyonce t-shirt. The whole thing is priced at $75, which might seem like a lot but, for that amount, you’d be lucky to cop two t-shirts at a concert.

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by Kase Wickman 9 mins ago

First things first, let’s make it clear that we’re fully and totally aware that the “Harry Potter” books are fictional. J.K. Rowling made them up! The movies that are based on the books are also made up.

That said, we think that Emma Watson might actually be magic for real. No, really! She’s fantastic. If she was starring in the new “Potter” spin-off, it would have to be called “Fantastic Emma Watsons and Where To Find Them.” In fact, we may just take that idea for ourselves. Because, guys: she’s great.

Ahead, 27 things that make us totally obsessed with Emma Watson and support our theory that she’s actually magic.

1. She literally laughs in the face of sexism.

A United Nations Women’s ambassador, Watson posted this defiant instagram in response to a Turkish politician forbidding women from laughing in public.

2. She withstood Hurricane JLaw.

That’s not a facesmash a mere mortal could survive.

3. But is too classy to pretend she’s her.

4. She went to college even though she never has to do anything she ever doesn’t want to do.

And finished.

5. Yes, she’s actually super smart.

“Everyone’s taking the piss at me because I did really well at my exams,” Watson told IGN on the set of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” “It’s been a bit of an ongoing joke the past couple of weeks, but I think it’s a compliment.”

6. She’s environmentally conscious.

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by Deepa Lakshmin 12 mins ago

We’ve all had crushes — on celebs, on fictional characters — that, no matter how much we daydream about them, will never return our feels in real life. It’s only natural to start crushin’ on a cartoon as well.

But what would it be like to actually date a cartoon in real life? Here’s what type of boyfriend your favorite cartoon would be:

1. Danny Phantom, the one who gets away with everything because he’s just so darn cute

With Danny, you don’t even need to chose between blue or green eyes because YOU GET BOTH. He just whips out those puppy eyes and you’re putty in his hands. Sucker.

2. Doug Funnie, the artsy shy guy who calls you his muse

You’ve always wanted someone to draw pics of you, so being his Quailwoman is pretty cool.

Related: ‘Hey Arnold’ Explains How Tinder Is Just Like The Scientific Method

3. Li Shang, the boyf who is strong enough to move all your crap into your new apartment

He easily hoists your mattress up five flights of stairs while you carry your pillow. At that moment, he is the single most important person in your entire life.

4. Aladdin, the Tinder Boy who catfishes you by lying about his identity

A few Photoshopped pics is all he needs to turn himself into a prince. Everything about him sounds so perfect, it’s definitely too good to be true.

5. Ron Stoppable, your best-friend-turned-boyfriend

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by Alex Zalben 16 mins ago

Imagine you’re a motion graphics creator and “Doctor Who” fan. In your spare time, you create an opening sequence to the new series of the show, featuring new star Peter Capaldi. You tweet the sequence to the motion graphics company who creates the actual titles for the BBC.

And then imagine those fan-made titles were so good, they got seen by series Executive Producer Steven Moffat, and were used nearly frame for frame on the actual new series of the show.

That’s exactly what happened with Billy Hanshaw, a freelance motion graphics artist who worked on the self-created title sequence for four weeks, and now finds his work will (essentially) be on television screens around the globe when “Doctor Who” premieres on August 23.

“Our beautiful new title sequence, it’s absolutely stunning, is online ‘Doctor Who’ fandom,” Moffat told press at a conference to promote the new series of the show. “Billy Hanshaw created this title sequence, put it up on YouTube. I happened to cross it, and it was the only new title idea I’d seen since 1963. We got in touch with him, and said, okay, we’re going to do that one.”

The clip has garnered over 700,000 views as of this writing; but given the global audience for “Who” is about to reach a whole lot more. And the final sequence has some differences from the one Hanshaw created at home – for example, the shot of Capaldi is very different (no smiling for this Doctor), and ...

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by Madeline Roth 2 mins ago

Know what’s cray? The fact that a slew of new millenial-approved words are now being totes legitimized. Amazeballs!

Related: 30-Year-Olds Have No Clue What Teenagers Are Saying Anymore

The latest addition of words to Oxford’s online dictionary (not to be confused with the more prestigious, serious Oxford English Dictionary) basically reads like an ode to our texts. The fresh batch of slang is filled with abbreviations like “FML” and “ICYMI,” as well as phrases that Drake and Kanye coined, like YOLO and cray. All in all, it’s a small victory in millenials’ quest to be taken seriously. If the trend continues, who knows…we could be seeing emojis creep its way into the dictionary in no time.

Check out some of the best new entries below, and then forward this on to your parents. You’ll want them to start studying so they can stop giving you blank stares when you humblebrag that you just binge-watched the entire series of “Beavis and Butt-head.” SMH.

adorbs (adj.): arousing great delight; cute or adorable.
air punch (n.): thrusting one’s clenched fist up into the air, typically as a gesture of triumph.
amazeballs (adj.): very impressive, enjoyable, or attractive.
binge-watch (v.): watch multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession.
bro hug (n.): a friendly embrace between two men.

Giphy

cray (adj.): crazy, but without that time-consuming extra syllable.
doncha (contraction): don’t you.
douchebaggery (n.): obnoxious or contemptible behaviour.
fandom (n.): the fans of a particular person, team, series, etc., regarded collectively as a community or subculture.
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by Marty Beckerman 3 mins ago

“You don’t know anything, Mom and Dad!” Who goes through adolescence without shouting that when their parents try to critique modern music or communicate with “hip” slang? (Like, uh, the word “hip.”)

Then you wake up one day and realize you have no earthly idea what kids today are saying with their “YOLO” and their “smh” and their “turnt up” and their “Molly” and their “Ed Sheeran.” You don’t feel old, but those gray hairs in the mirror don’t lie, your social life mostly revolves around the Netflix comments section, and the last thing you experimented with was a recipe for gazpacho.

RELATED: ‘Sideboob,’ ‘YOLO,’ ‘Hot Mess’ Are Among Words Now In Oxford Dictionaries

Well, Buzzfeed collected a panel of “grown-ass adults” to guess what teenagers mean with modern slang like “OTP,” “thot” and more. Go ahead and laugh — you’ll know this pain soon enough, whippersnappers (OFMG, who says “whippersnappers”?):

[H/T Guyism]