Madonna Madness at the Boom Boom Room Kicked Off Pride

It was the Standard’s post-pandemic Pride Week party, with DJ sets by the Misshapes, Honey Dijon, Kaytranada, and disco god Eli Escobar, but by Thursday night, everybody thought of it as a party for, by, and about Madonna. “God is Cuming,” Madonna had posted three days before; she was going to be there. Would she sing? Her faithful fans crowded outside the door of the Standard High Line, desperate, after months and months away, to cram maskless into elevators to go up to the Boom Boom Room on the 18th floor. And truth be told, God seemed as exultant as any of the rest of us to finally get out of the house. “On a positive note,” she said when she finally appeared, striding into the bar in leather boots, sometime past 1 a.m. “This is the first time I’ve been to a fucking party with people.”

Love planet Venus has entered bold Leo — find out what that means for your weekly horoscope. Speaking of love, Courtney Love has accused Olivia Rodrigo of copying her prom-themed Hole album cover and is demanding apology flowers. Not many people could wear an outfit Beyoncé famously wore and look this good, but Zendaya did it. A reminder that some celebrity dating rumors are just fully fictional. While Great Jones’s pastel-colored cookware became a must-have for millennials, a war was brewing between the estranged best-friend founders. James Corden’s “Spill Your Guts” will no longer feature Asian delicacies for white guests to disrespectfully gag at. And romance novels for a hot, sweaty summer.

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