#my secret martha ship is martha/lucy

[idkaguyorsomething]

on the one hand, i sort of get the logic behind having martha and mickey becoming an item. they both got the short end of the stick around the doctor, especially whenever rose got brought up, so they’d be able to understand each other’s experiences and probably treat each other right. on the other hand, it’s almost hilarious how i don’t think they even had a single conversation with each other before the showrunners decided to hook up the (at the time) only black companion with the (at the time) only other major black character, with one of them completely forgetting about the fiancé she mentioned in a previous episode and the other one just up and leaving the entire dimension he’d lived in for the past few years, knowing full well it would be impossible for him to ever return

[dark-water-doctor-woman]

**Water Writings***

Known as Jungle Beach, the town of Chilmark's pride and joy is this forbidden, secret beauty. Inaccessible. Longed for. Between 9am and 7pm you must have a town issued beach pass to walk or drive thru + park in the main lot. The town of Chilmark is among the highest priced zip codes in the US. 02335 and 508-645-#### are exclusive numbers. I believe the cheapest house is listed for $935,000. Right up there with Malibu. There is a route accessible by kayak but the launch spot provides but two parking spaces so it's an early bird thing. The lifeguard/beach pass season ends mid-September but wave hunting islanders from Martha's Vineyard's other five towns find the best way to get on the beach is the early bird. If there is no car without a town beach pass sticker in the lot they aren't likely to ask you to leave.

This is how I get onto Jungle Beach. It is one of the rare, Southern New England, southward facing beaches. The Atlantic tidal current traveling up the east coast slams right into it. And much like Matunuck, Charlestown or Mohegan Bluffs, it gets shredded. I've often times come here alone in the morning, before the mists have faded. This rock always appears. Always signals for me when I've reached the best spot. I'm often, cautious of catching a rip tide while swimming by myself. I wait til other people come.

I walk all the way down to the nude, yes nude, section of the beach. The part that is still a part of the town beach. But the end part. Where you can be nude. I repeat, a bathing suit is unnecessary, nude. As in, pack snacks and maybe another summer dress and that's it because you won't even need a goddamn towel if it's hot outside. When you board that bus from Vineyard Haven after the 6am steamship outta Woods Hole (park before 5:30-40am you'll catch a free shuttle bus to the dock), board the 7am-ish vineyard haven bus to West Tisbury town hall, walk nextdoor to the old Grange and board the 5 bus to Aquinnah and tell the driver to stop at Lucy Vincent (or the turn right after) and ....walk (about half a mile and past the Belushi compound) to the nude part of the beach. Did I mention you can be naked and swim in the over-your-head southward facing waves of the unbridled sea?

Also, Katama in Edgartown is the free beach and it has its own bus and is Southward facing. But. It is not nude. Squibnocket is also Southward facing but free after five. But. It is not nude. Menemsha is Chilmark's free town beach, every town had one free town beach. And if you drive to Menemsha, Larsen's fish market crushes it and you can catch the sunset on your car roof parked on the dock behind the coast guard barracks. But alas, you see my point, it is not nude. And it does not have this rock. Nor the cliffs. Which have crumbled in recent years. This beach is a portal to another world for me.

Next time you have about $60 bucks and a full tank of gas, drive to the Palmer lot in Woods Hole, there's an early Dunkin, buy a $20 steamship authority round trip on your phone. Board the 6am ferry to vineyard haven. See the ships at 6:30, see the port at 6:45. And board that first 3 bus to all the way to the end of west tisbury. You're headed Up Island. Maybe tell the sweet, sassy lady bus driver (if it's still her I forget her name) to give Block Island another chance, even tho they don't have a bus system. And escape to another sacred, secret beach. 🌊 💙 🩵 🖤 Aquinnah beach secrets will be reserved for my patrons. 😉

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TV Guide, August 3-16

Cover: Your Fan Favorites -- readers pick TV’s top shows and stars 

Page 1: Contents, Ask Matt -- Perry Mason, The Titan Games 

Page 2: Readers’ Letters, Get your remotes ready -- TV series are finally filming again in New York and Los Angeles 

Page 3: Tribute -- Naya Rivera 

Page 4: The Roush Review -- Muppets Now 

Page 5: We Hunt Together, Taskmaster, Britannia 

Page 6: Cover Story -- The Votes Are In -- you cast the ballots, we tallied ‘em. Here are your picks for TV’s top shows, stars, scene-stealers and more 

Page 10: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 1 -- behind-the-scenes of Endeavor 

Page 11: Monday, August 3 -- A Woman Named Jackie, Wheel of Fortune, Tuesday, August 4 -- Return to...Men’s Track, What’s It Worth/Extreme Unboxing, Backyard Envy 

Page 12: Wednesday, August 5 -- Serinda Swan on Coroner, Tough as Nails, Property Brothers: Top 10 Countdowns, Cave Crocs of Gabon, Marrying Millions 

Page 15: Thursday, August 6 -- MLB Games to Watch, Christina on the Coast, Don’t, Syfy Wire’s The Great Debate, Golf 

Page 16: Friday, August 7 -- Bad Boys for Life, The Greatest #AtHome Videos, Frasier, In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams, Martha Knows Best, Room 104 

Page 17: Saturday, August 8 -- Criminal Minds, Rhoda, License to Kill, Love on Harbor Island, Jodi Arias: Cellmate Secrets, Richard Jewell, NBA Basketball 

Page 18: Sunday, August 9 -- Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach Off, Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, Perry Mason 

Page 36: Stream It! Your Guide to the Best Streaming Available -- Netflix -- The Speed Cubers, Project Power, Shameless, Last Chance U 

Page 37: Prime Video -- World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji, Breathe: Into the Shadows, Hulu -- vacations gone wrong -- Married...With Children, Seinfeld, I Love Lucy, The Brady Bunch, 30 Rock 

Page 38: New Movie Releases 

Page 39: Series, Specials and Documentaries 

Page 40: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 2 -- Lovecraft Country

Page 41: Monday, August 10 -- The Titan Games, Combat Ships, 10 Things You Don’t Know, Tuesday, August 11 -- America’s Got Talent, The Bold and the Beautiful, Hard Knocks: Los Angeles, Major League Soccer 

Page 42: Wednesday, August 12 -- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Impact of Hate: Charlottesville, NBA Basketball, Thursday, August 13 -- The Waltons, Days of Our Lives, To Tell the Truth, Tacoma FD, Alone 

Page 43: Friday, August 14 -- Star Trek: Enterprise, Summer Under the Stars: Steve McQueen, Saturday, August 15 -- Birds of Prey, NCIS: New Orleans, Earthflight, Wedding Every Weekend 

Page 44: Sunday, August 16 -- Fran Drescher: In My Own Words,  Mystery Woman Marathon, The Circus, Very Scary People, Darcey and Stacey 

Page 64: Cheers & Jeers -- cheers to United We Fall, Peacock for heating up an English-class staple with the original series Brave New World, The Alienist, At Home With Amy Sedaris, jeers to Netflix for being a menace to The Society fans, Peacock for not completely stuffing its nest, the Food Network for beating up on Bobby Flay 

[bisexualamy]

@moonlightandlilacs replied to your post “(dnt rb pls) i have had a headcanon for literal years of what the...”

I’m interested and listening. Feel free to go on.

(still dnt rb pls)

thank you for this i need like, the smallest reason to keep talking about this.

the way i see the progression of events going is that the prime minister has just fucking died. like, he’s the master, but the rest of the world doesn’t and can’t know that. so they have to make an emergency landing. the doctor is no help (he’s beside himself; it’s not his fault) but this means that basically jack and martha have to be the level-headed people in the room and handle this because they have a dead prime minister with a bullet wound on their hands. and they’re running out of time to have some kind of plan that doesn’t make everyone panic.

so they clean him up and get someone to land the ship and say saxon needs medical attention. someone (probably martha) calls in UNIT so they can bring the master’s body somewhere the doctor can access it. everyone is tuned into the toclafane first contact, but i have to assume the time reversal really messed with the cameras. so the feed has cut out right as the toclafane appear, and suddenly the valiant is making an emergency landing? press are out in droves. EMTs board the ship and it’s obvious the master is dead, but they have to get a doctor to actually declare him dead. so, they load his body onto a stretcher, put a blanket over his face and body for respect, and walk off the ship.

what the press and the public see when they leave, first thing, is two EMTs and harold saxon’s body on a stretcher. snap iconic photo. he’s loaded onto a UNIT van so a UNIT doctor can pronounce him dead. and then after him, a guard is leading lucy off the ship. my poor darling, she’s just numb. not even in shock just, she did what she needed to do but she’s so dead to the world. and the press mob her. “mrs. saxon mrs. saxon can you tell us anything what is going on” and she just doesn’t see them, doesn’t acknowledge them except to admonish them for swarming her when her husband just died. (because even after everything she’s been through she still knows how to play the part of prime minister’s wife, still knows exactly how this narrative is going to go)

(the doctor, jack, and martha don’t see this. and they don’t see her being taken away to broadfell, either. she will never forget that).

i imagine there are two photos on the cover the next day. above the fold is just the headline announcing harold saxon death and that full width image of harold saxon dead on a stretcher. below the fold is the beginning of the story, and a small image, a column or two wide next to it, of lucy wrapped in someone’s jacket (possibly a guard’s), being ushered away from the scene, looking just dead eyed. everyone thinks she’s just in shock.

(i have other headcanons about like, what the official cause of death is for harold saxon and how torchwood and UNIT paper over the cracks in harold saxon’s life, but this post is already so long. what i will say is there’s no way they actually tell people he was assassinated. EoT says that lucy’s trial was in secret with no jury. if the public knew harold saxon was assassinated, i doubt they’d stand for that).

[ladyherenya]

For the last decade, I’ve been writing reviews and then condensing those to create <100 word summaries that I added to my reading record and, in recent years, also posted here. It’s an oddly satisfying process, but it’s time consuming.

So I’m experimenting with just copying across the key sentence(s) from each of my reviews instead.

Reread: Beginner’s Luck by Kate Clayborn, The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary and Act Like It by Lucy Parker.

Total: thirteen novels (including two audiobooks and three rereads), one novella (audiobook), and one comic volume.

Cover thoughts: The cover for After the War is Over caught my attention.

Still haven’t finished: Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks or Or What You Will by Jo Walton.  

Next up: Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett.

My full reviews are on Dreamwidth and LibraryThing.

*

The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett (narrated by David Monteath): Historical, set in 1550s in Scotland and Malta (etc). Sequel to The Game of Kings and Queen’s Play.

Intense and compelling, and… wow.  4½ ★

*

Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey: Contemporary romance.

I think I’d like to read a romance which portrays going to counselling more seriously? This was interesting  enough to finish but not really my thing.

*

A Most Improper Magic by Stephanie Burgis: Regency-era children’s fantasy.

Kat, a feisty twelve year old, attends a houseparty with her older sisters; various hijinks ensure. Charming. I intend to read the sequels. 3 ★

*

Rachel’s Secret by BJ Hoff: Amish romance, set in 1850s.

If this hadn’t been a gift from a relative, I might have felt able to   donate it to a secondhand store without reading it first. I liked the initial situation – an Amish widow looks after a critically-injured riverboat captain – but became a bit frustrated as the story progressed. 2½ ★

*

Goodnight From London by Jennifer Robson (narrated by Saskia Maarleveld): Historical, set in London during WWII.

Ruby, a young American journalist, is sent to work for a London magazine. Occasionally I wished for more poetic prose, witty dialogue or nuanced   characters – but most of the time I was too caught up in the story to be critical. 3 ★

*

The Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy by Martha Wells: Fantasy, parallels worlds. A generation after The Death of the Necromancer, Ile-Rien is at war.

The Wizard Hunters:

This was unexpectedly reminiscent of Wells’ Books of the Raksura – the action-driven pace of the story; the personalities and group dynamics, and especially the imaginative worldbuilding. It took a few chapters but I became completely engrossed. 3½ ★

The Ships of Air:

Much of this takes place on  a 1930s-eque ocean liner, a unique setting for a fantasy. I kept expecting something more from the personal developments but still found the story engrossing and read the third book straightaway. 3 ★

The Gate of Gods:

As if it had heard my small grumbles about the previous book, this felt a lot more personal. A tense and satisfying conclusion. 3½ ★

*

Runaways: But You Can’t Hide (volume 4) by Rainbow Rowell and Andrés Genolet: Marvel superhero comics.  Sequel to Find Your Way Home, Best Friends Forever and But That Was Yesterday.

I enjoyed this, especially the found-family and moments of reflection, but came away thinking Oh, is that all? Six issues only allows for so much to happen! 3 ★

*

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire (narrated by Annamarie Carlson): Coming-of-age portal fantasy. Standalone in the Wayward Children series.

Ten year old Reagan steps through a doorway by the river – and finds herself in the Hooflands, where everyone assumes it must be her  destiny to save the world.  The ending is a little abrupt but otherwise this is quite satisfactory. 3 ★

*

After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson: Historical, set England in 1919, with flashbacks. Not officially a sequel but features characters from Somewhere in France (which I haven’t read).

A series of snapshots of the life of Charlotte Brown, an educated unmarried woman of thirty-three, living and working in Liverpool. Interesting and enjoyable, but I was aware of definite tendency for things to be resolved neatly. Because with so much going on, there wasn’t room for exploring complexities? 3 ★ 

*

Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans: Historical, set in England during WWII.

This is about making a British propaganda film during WWII, an aspect of history I hadn’t seen addressed in fiction before! That was satisfying and fascinating. And as if it had heard my criticisms of the novel I’d read the day before, very little is readily resolved! I mostly liked the ending and certainly don’t regret reading this – I read it all in an afternoon! – but I came away feeling a bit flat. 3½ ★

[sircarolyn]

Doctor Who, for the fandom asks?

thanks anon! i hope you are having a nice day <3

Favourite character: just one would be impossible, but the first ones in my head are sarah jane, bill, donna, lucie miller, eight and twelve, but i must also mention leela and romana and jo grant (i’ll let you in on a secret, i love them all)

Least Favourite character: the meddling monk because i still haven’t forgiven him for to the death >:( and the trickster! that guy can get fucked

5 Favourite ships: sarah/jo, kate/osgood, eleven/river, tegan/nyssa (!), romana/leela 

Character I find most attractive: in an attempt to not just answer sarah jane to all these questions... martha jones

Character I would marry: jo grant

Character I would be best friends with: donna, or bill, or twelve

a random thought: uhhhhh the first one is aaaahhh i love doctor who, and then the second one is oh my god big finish why can’t i stop thinking about you you dickheads

An unpopular opinion: i really love moffat who, still

My Canon OTP: tegan/nyssa :’) or like nine/rose, because that shit transcends everything, oh my god

My Non-canon OTP: sarah/kate 

Most Badass Character: gotta be nardole, yeah? or three, who i also love

Most Epic Villain: crispy master 

Pairing I am not a fan of: ten/donna and five/tegan. i’m not anti shipping the doctor, but sometimes it works for me and sometimes it doesn’t

Character I feel the writers screwed up: dare i say it.... dhawan!master....

Favourite Friendship: ten & donna, i mean it has to be. also big fan of the way martha and rose and donna and sarah meet up for coffee all the time, which is absolutely canon

Character I most identify with: luke smith, and i guess if i had to pick from the main tv canon, probably donna? or maybe bill

Character I wish I could be: honestly, first thought is twelve, but really, who i wish i could be is david tennant himself - look at that guy’s life, i mean really! he’s living the dream

[spotlightsaga]

Kevin Cage of @spotlightsaga reviews… American Gods (S01E02) The Secret of Spoon Airdate: May 7, 2017 @americangods Ratings: 0.710 Million :: 0.30 18-49 Demo Share Score: 8.75/10

*********SPOILERS BELOW*********

There was quite the uproar over the polarizing reception of Bryan Fuller, Michael Green & David Slade’s premiere episode of the small screen adaptation of the novel ‘American Gods’. For me, it felt like the trio was oversetting the stage and throwing psychedelic-tinged visuals and buckets of blood, introducing character after character without giving it much substance. But 'The Secret Of Spoons’ is packed with both psychedelic goodness, heavy world building backstories, and is literally teeming with substance. I calls 'em like I sees 'em. Ya heard me?

They say if you want your audience to stay put, you not only have to stay consistent, but you have to grab them by the balls (that lines going to haunt me when I run for president in 2020). 'American Gods’ doesn’t just grab you by the balls in 'The Secret of Spoons’, it literally grabs the whole human undercarriage, with one or two fingers in the ass and all. Oh, is that too graphic for you? Then your watching the wrong show. The pulpy storytelling remains and Orlando Jones gives us a fired up, very much WOKE Mr Nancy who sticks out like a kaleidoscope colored tarantula on a slave ship coming to America. 'Oh you don’t know your black yet?’ Nancy barks at the men of color shackled to the ship going through a thosand emotions at once. Shame inspires major events, but fear does too… And from fear, Anger is born, and its fear and anger with a sliding scale of everything in between that drives would be slave turned sacrificial rebel to burn 'that motherfucker down’. While 'Anansi’ or Mr Nancy tells the slaves a somewhat accurate depiction of 'Coming To America’, the details are not all there and he tricks them into sacrificing themselves for him. God mode, baby.

This was a fantastic introduction to the African God Anansi AKA Mr Nancy, a mythical god well preserved by our Caribbean brothers and sisters, particularly the notoriously culture copied Jamaican 🇯🇲 people and the culture-rich, female strong country of Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹. He’s slick, talks the talk, walks the walk, and preaches quite the pulp to the masses. His intentions are are both transparently clear and opaque as unclear can be. He is knowledgeable and speaks truths from his solar plexus… That is when he’s not a colorful spider. Do spiders have solar plexus? Maybe, possibly this one. The wreckage of the boat washes ashore and Anansi crawls off a plank in spider form. At first the scene felt disjointed, excellently executed, but still disjointed… After the episode ends we see there is a theme tied throughout its duration. Immigration and color, technicolor, and the things that separate us as Americans are the very things that bond us together, like it or not.

'The Secret of Spoon’ slows down the pacing and let’s us take in these characters, their movements, their quirks, the nuances of their very being… This is exactly the type of pace and character work that I love, especially if you are going for a psychedelic aesthetic and perspective. THIS is my forté… So those who *attempted* to clock me last week, I told you to be patient. I WILL NEVER praise a series, even a favorite, when praise is not well earned or righteously deserved… But when it is, I will bow gently. I suspect this wasn’t an easy story to start, especially with the drop in number of episodes… But now that the characters with less density and foundation, such as the fractal eye candy Technical Boy have been introduced we are getting to the actual 'meat and potatoes’ of The Old Gods.

We see there is core narrative of a battle between The Old and New Gods brewing, bubbling to the surface… But there is still much mystery behind certain Gods and Goddesses’ intentions. Bliquis, for one, remains a huge question mark, continuously enveloping both women and men into her vagina which leads them to a place of psychedelic and sexual ecstasy, as we see her original date full on hard with his legs spread open taking a ride into a starlit constellation that resembles a vagina. She’s taking in a lot of 'victims’ and apparently using the internet, which is ruled by Technical Boy… Could New be using Old in a strange strategical power move? Ever taken 5-MeO-DiPT? It’s an intense sexually charged, erotic psychedelic tryptamine that induces a journey much like what we see here. It’s actually a favorite of mine (in the correct dosage, which is vital with the drug otherwise known as 'Foxy’ or it’s less intense, lighter body load sister Chem 'Moxy’). I bring this is up because the scene where her date is floating in the spacey landscape is exactly where the chemical takes you. If these Mythical God’s were real, they would work through chemistry, and since I fancy myself a modern shaman, these connections are made to best my understanding… And maybe those who have a deep understanding with spiritual journeys through varieties and psychedelic chemicals.

As Shadow shops for a few items Mr Wednesday gives him to prepare for their long long road trip in his trusty car, Betty (one of which doesn’t like highways and enjoys slow rides and taking in the beauty), he’s ambushed into the television isle by Media, a New God, who manifests on an myriad of TV’s in the form of Lucille Ball. Gillian Anderson has always been great, but I can’t recall her playing such an out of the box, spot-on, character actress before. She looks, talks, sits, and presents herself like a toned down, real life Lucille Ball… Not the 'I Love Lucy’, 'cameras on’ Lucille Ball, but the woman herself dressed and prepped to film. It’s quite astonishing and I can’t wait to see who she pops up as next. Media spits rhetoric and principles that are far too close to that of Technical Boy, the man who just attacked Shadow and left him a bloody mess. She promises to never hurt him and says that men like him end up in suicide… And that she’s trying to prevent that. If you ask me, none of these bitches are to be trusted. With great power (old or new), comes great manipulation.

Shadow & Mr Wednesday continue their trip to Chicago where they meet The Slavic Zorya Sisters, 2/3 of which we see with our very eyes. Cloris Leachman gives us everything as Zorya Vechernyaya, the wise fortune telling leader of the family. Her quiet, reserved sister Zorya Utrennyaya is played by one of my favorite faces on television, FX Baskets’ Martha Kelly. She’s perfectly cast, but I’m partial to her and her work anyway. I will always love everything she does… Capturing a naive vulnerability that she allows people to use for their advantages. The third sister sleeps through the entire episode, only to call out from her bedroom to see if everything is alright.

Their brother, Czenobog, needs no introduction. He’s been represented in media many times before including the evil monster in 'Fantasia’. Wednesday needs both him and his hammer… Not his brother who represents light. Czenobog is played by the legendary Peter Stormare who chain smokes and speaks his Eastern European dialect in a menacing deadpan manner. He talks about his brother representing light and him representing dark, their lifelong fight, and ultimately both of them turning the same color of grey, making their fight irrelevant… Making color irrelevant; A nice nod, tie in, and juxtaposition to the opening scene where we see the many different ways and struggles that Americans eventuality made it to this country… Some shackled to boats, some shackled to dirty streets, but all shackled to a struggle that has defined us as individuals many generations down the line. Czenobog is a dangerous man, a man who does not give any fucks, and wages Shadow’s life on a game of Checkers that Shadow ultimately loses. How that will play out? We’ll have to find out next week, but this episode left me ravenous for more. If I had access to all the episodes, I wouldn’t have stopped. Clearly 'American Gods’ just had trouble setting its original stage, because now, just in its second episode, its firing on all cylinders… A sign that bodes well for the remaining 6 episodes of the series that now has my full attention and enthusiasm.

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Life & Style, March 1

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: How Justin Timberlake destroyed Britney Spears

Page 1: Photo Flash -- last March, plans were announced for a TV adaptation of American Gigolo which is the 1980 film that transformed Richard Gere into a star -- after some holdups, the series is finally in production with The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal stepping into the role to play handsome but cold-hearted Julian 18 years later. In this pic, he's being filmed in the ocean

Page 2: Contents

Page 4: The Top 10 Bow Looks -- Caitriona Balfe, Yara Shahidi, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Levy, Jennifer Lopez

Page 5: Elle Fanning, Idina Menzel, Lana Condor, Zoe Kravitz, Sarah Hyland

Page 6: Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley are engaged after just six months of dating -- the Green Bay Packers quarterback broke the news during the NFL Honors event, giving his fiancee a shout-out while accepting an award for Most Valuable Player and though the betrothal came as a shock to most people, family and friends weren't surprised -- Shailene doesn't fall in love easily but when she does, she's all in and having just broken up with Fijian rugby player Ben Volavola, Shailene wasn't expecting to fall for Aaron let alone marry him but she did and she's never been happier

Page 8: Hailey Baldwin got her mom Kennya a gig with Bare Minerals to help her folks stay afloat -- it's not secret that her dad Stephen Baldwin is terrible with money and he's defaulted on mortgages, had run-ins with the IRS and filed for bankruptcy -- Hailey's husband Justin Bieber who's worth $285 million has also opened up his wallet and Justin has so much money, he doesn't know what to do with it so he's happy to help out any way that he can

* Rebel Wilson and boyfriend Jacob Busch have called it quits after less than a year of dating and there were some red flags that she couldn't ignore as their relationship progressed such as Jacob being a little too enamored with fame and Rebel started to suspect that he was in it for the wrong reasons so she cut him loose

Page 10: The Week in Photos -- Jordin Sparks was unmasked as the Exotic Bird on The Masked Dancer

Page 12: Lucky Dogs -- Rebel Wilson made a four-legged friend on the set of her new dog grooming competition Pooch Perfect, Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg cheered on teams of adorable and adoptable dogs at Puppy Bowl XVII

Page 13: Lucy Hale with her new rescue dog Ethel and her dog Elvis, Maria Menounos snuggled up to her dog Whinnie on a flight, Demi Moore and daughter Tallulah Willis and three of their dogs

Page 16: Daphne Oz prepared a massive helping of kale salad with apple and farro, Olivia Culpo got messy with confetti at Shaquille O'Neal's pre-Super Bowl party, John Legend playing the piano with son Miles

Page 18: Say What?! Venus Williams on her love of beauty treatments, Nina Dobrev on her rescue pup Maverick, Kaley Cuoco on husband Karl Cook's latest hairdo, Miley Cyrus who says she hasn't done drugs in years, Susan Sarandon on scrapped plans for a follow-up to 1991's Thelma & Louise

Page 22: Rather than let the loss of their unborn son Jack due to miscarriage tear them apart, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend found a way to cope with the pain together -- Chrissy sought counseling and in November, she celebrated one month of sobriety and the transformative experience brought Chrissy closer to John

Page 23: Sofia Richie was spotted packing on the PDA with shipping heir Gil Ofer in Miami Beach -- the son of an Israeli billionaire, Gil is a Harvard grad who's studying for his MBA at the London Business School -- while he's not throwing his billionaire status around Gil has made it pretty easy for Sofia to fall for him by lavishing her with gifts of jewelry, shopping sprees, travel and expensive dinners -- although her famous father Lionel Richie can be pretty protective Lionel likes that Gil is driven, comes from a good family and supports himself and he's not in showbiz and Lionel is happy as long as Sofia is happy

Page 24: Cover Story -- The Downfall of Britney Spears and Why Justin Timberlake Is to Blame -- a new Britney documentary takes a fresh look at what and who pushed the pop star over the edge -- after Justin publicly blamed Britney for their 2002 split, implying she'd cheated, she was more diplomatic despite being crushed and since the release of Framing Britney Spears fans have been calling for Justin to apologize to Britney

Page 28: Kelly Clarkson: Being a Single Mom Is Hard -- in the wake of her split Kelly is feeling exhausted raising two young children on her own -- even during her marriage to Brandon Blackstock, Kelly says that she took on a majority of the parenting duties but it's definitely more challenging for her raising the kids solo -- with so much time spent with her kids and on the job Kelly has put meeting Mr. Right on the backburner

Page 30: Princess Diana brings Meghan Markle and Duchess Kate Middleton back together -- on Princess Diana's would-be 60th birthday, Kate and Meghan will reunite to honor their husbands' late mom -- in the past Kate has been accused of being unwelcoming to her sister-in-law while Meghan's been labeled a diva and while neither is perfect, Diana wasn't either -- the statue of Diana will be unveiled at Kensington Palace's picturesque sunken garden with Prince Charles and their sons Prince William and Prince Harry and families in attendance

Page 32: Jennifer Lopez's new rules for Alex Rodriguez -- as cheating rumors swirl yet again, J.Lo lays down the law with A-Rod -- ever since the latest rumors surfaced Alex has upped his game with Jennifer, showering her with gifts, flowers and expensive jewelry but it's going to take more than that for her to trust him -- Madison LeCroy denies having a physical affair with Alex but does say that he slid into her DMs and that they've spoken over the phone and the communication between them was a year ago

Page 36: Who Lives Here? Halsey

Page 40: Diva or Down-to-Earth? Jax Taylor filled up his Jeep at an LA gas station -- down-to-earth, Naomi Campbell jetted out of Kenya on a charter plane -- diva, when you're worth $200 million your glam team comes to you and Salma Hayek was sitting pretty at home as she prepped for an interview -- diva, James Van Der Beek and daughter Olivia had fun playing Monopoly -- down-to-earth

Page 42: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Elizabeth Banks transformed into Baby Yoda, naked Emily Ratajkowski shows off her baby bump, Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness and husband Mark Peacock, Cindy Crawford and daughter Kaia Gerber play chess

Page 44: Horoscope -- Pisces Drew Barrymore turned 46 on February 22

* They're Not Together, But They Should Be -- Sagittarius Paula Patton and Leo Ben Affleck

Page 46: Made Ya Look! Serena Williams strikes a pose for her latest collab with luggage brand Away

Page 48: What I'm Into -- Melissa Gorga of The Real Housewives of New Jersey