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An Australian modern art museum featured a lavish, green velvet-ordained room—for women’s use only—to make a statement about discrimination. Then it got accused of being discriminatory. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] After a male ticket-payer last year complained of being denied entry to the Ladies Lounge, which opened in 2020, a local tribunal last month ordered the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania to make the space accessible to all. But the exhibit artist and curator, Kirsha Kaechele, who is married to MONA’s founder and owner, has vowed to fight the order, which she calls the “verdick,” saying she plans to challenge the ruling before the state supreme court and, in the interim, pursue a workaround to ensure the Ladies Lounge remains off limits for men—except for male butlers who serve guests refreshments. “Men need to be discriminated against,” Kaechele said in a post on Instagram on Tuesday, adding that she believes, with a few tweaks, the Ladies Lounge could qualify for various exemptions to Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act.

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Travis Kelce is kicking off his Hollywood career. The Kansas City Chiefs player—who has been dating Taylor Swift since last year—has landed in his first major TV role, joining the cast of Ryan

There's about to be another vacancy at Firehouse 51. Chicago Fire star Eamonn Walker—who has been portraying Wallace Boden since the NBC series' inception—will be leaving the show after 12

Apparently, few topics are T. M. I. for Tori Spelling.  Case in point: The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum recently detailed how she once crafted a sex toy as a gift for estranged husband Dean