A single on Lizzo’s latest album borrows from a D.C. go-go classic. Lizzo’s “Sexy Ladies” borrows from UCB’s 2005 song “Sexy ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Hong Kong court has awarded HK$6.29 million (US$802,698) in damages to a dancer left paralysed after being struck by a falling giant screen during a concert by Cantopop boy band Mirror four years ...

Shakira defied gravity when she took to the 2026 FIFA World Cup stage on Thursday in a pair of massive platform R13 sneakers, which she coordinated with her backup dancers. The Colombian superstar was ...

Earlier this year, I watched a video that caught me entirely by surprise: A clip from the CCTV Spring Festival in China, in which more than a dozen humanoid robots performed an intricate martial-arts ...

On a particularly hot summer day in 1986, a fan in six-year-old Julie Pettigrew’s bedroom short-circuited. She was having dinner across the street at her grandparents’ house when the fan caught fire, ...

Deandre Pearson was in tears. The Georgia native had just moved to New York City and couldn’t believe his eyes. When his cab pulled up to his first sublet in Hell’s Kitchen, he started welling up.

Performances in N.Y.C. Olivia Book of Ballet West is one of the first professional ballet dancers to have a limb difference. Olivia Book, who is from Grimsby, Ontario, on the shore of Lake ...

The stage is a special place for 18-year-old Kaili Quevedo. "When I'm on a stage, I don't feel my disability, I don't feel my chronic pain, I don't feel my anxiety," said Quevedo. Most recently, she ...

Lizzo was high off her Grammy win for Record of the Year for “About Damn Time” and had just wrapped her Special world tour when she was rocked by her former backup dancers accusing her of sexual ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...