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ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A top administrator in a Texas school district advised teachers last week to give students access to books containing […]

ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Britney Spears is getting into fiction writing. The 39-year-old pop star announced the news via Instagram on Friday, just days […]

A bishop in Spain called it quits last month after he fell in love with a woman known for writing Satanic erotic fan fiction, BBC News reports.  Xavier Novell, 52, cited “strictly personal reasons” when he announced his decision to step down 11 years after becoming Spain’s youngest bishop. The Catholic site Religion Digital reported on […]

Rick Ross stopped by Bakari Sellers’ podcast this week to promote his new book The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler’s Guide to Building Your Empire. During their conservation, Sellers asked Ross what advice he’d give to hip-hop’s new generation on navigating controversy, particularly DaBaby amid the backlash following his homophobic comments at Rolling Loud Miami in July. “You’re […]

Nearly 63 years after it was actually supposed to be back, a very, very overdue book has finally been returned to the Fenham Library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.  BBC News reports that the work, a first edition copy of Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, was supposed to be back on November 25, 1958. Accompanying the severely behind return was […]

In his memoir, Trejo, Danny Trejo recalled the time he was hypnotized by Charles Manson while the two were in jail 60 years ago, per Page Six.  Trejo said a “greasy, dirty, scrawny” Manson walked up to him in Los Angeles County Jail in 1961 seeking protection. “He was so poor, he didn’t have a belt, and instead used a piece […]

Acne Studios has officially released its Acne Paper book—a 568-page tome that commemorates its now-defunct fashion magazine. Acne Paper was published biannually between 2004 to 2015, offering customers a solid collection of photography, articles, essays, and art. It was a refreshing alternative to the blogs and zines that dominated the aughts, and continues to be celebrated by fans of […]

Shawn Setaro, the author and journalist whose extensive coverage of 6ix9ine previously served as the basis for the Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story podcast, is releasing a new book that offers readers “the culmination” of years of reporting. Complex and Kingston Imperial have linked up for the release of Complex Presents: Dummy Boy: Tekashi 6ix9ine and […]

Eric Carle, the beloved children’s book author/illustrator, has died at age 91.  His family confirmed the news with a tribute message posted on his website Wednesday night. It read: “In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows, is now traveling across the night sky.” According to the New […]

HBO announced Monday that Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon is currently in production and remains on track for 2022. The announcement came from the Thrones’ Twitter account, along with a photo of the cast going through a socially distanced table read.   GoT fans suspected that something could be on the horizon based on a tweet earlier in the […]