Weekend News Roundup! Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther, Saint West, and a Monster Jam Toy Scandal
Here’s our compendium of pop culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.
• Liza Minelli celebrated her 70th birthday with a group of close friends, including Barbra Streisand and Kathy Griffin. [People]
• Two images of Saint West are now publicly available for your viewing pleasure, as Kim Kardashian West shared another via Instagram on Friday. [E!]
• National Book Award Winner Ta-Nehisi Coates revealed the first look at his forthcoming Marvel comic, Black Panther. [EW]
• Zootopia won the box office with a weekend gross nearly twice that of 10 Cloverfield Lane. [BOM]
• Mothers were shocked (and rightfully outraged) to discover that the semi-strange hearts emblazoned on children’s toys sold at the Monster Jam in Tampa, Florida were actually secret codes for pedophiles. [News Channel 8]
• Carly Rae Jepsen and Bob Saget performed the Fuller House theme song together. [Billboard]