
Victoria Beckham is super absorbent this week as the former Spice Girl and style icon gets wet and animated in a special episode Nickelodeon’s hit
SpongeBob SquarePants. With blue pigment, luscious black locks, a bright pink seashell bra, and fish-like bottom half, Posh plays mermaid Queen Amphitrite in the episode “The Clash of Triton,” in which rocker Sebastian Bach provides the voice for her son, Triton. Beckham’s three boys—Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz—could not be happier to see their mom as a majestic cartoon character. “I was so thrilled when I was asked to be a part of
SpongeBob as my children love the show,” she told The Daily Mail. “When I told the boys that I was going to be on the show, they were
so excited!” Are ya ready kids?
Victoria Beckham’s SpongeBob SquarePants special, “
The Clash of Triton” airs at 8:00 p.m. EST on Nickelodeon on Monday, July 5.

The capital of style is gearing up for its latest and highest form of fashion—Haute Couture Fashion Week begins Monday. The crème de la crème flock to the City of Lights, offering style even more highbrow than the designers’ ready-to-wear collections. Christian Dior, Armani Privé, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Valentino, and more of fashion’s biggest names will showcase the rarest, most outrageous looks at the twice annual event. But one designer, Givenchy artistic director Riccardo Tisci, is skipping the haute couture catwalk this year. Instead, Tisci is hosting individual appointments to view his 10 looks—down from the usual 30—at a townhouse at the Place Vendôme. "This, and future collections, will be presented as a mise-en-scène installation, off the runway," the company said in an emailed statement. "At Givenchy, haute couture has, and always will be, of paramount importance as it exemplifies the highest and purest expression of the brand." Time will tell if the new off-the-runway demonstration will become in vogue with other designers, but for now, the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture’s three-day event will remain largely on the catwalk.
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Before
Chicago was a star vehicle for Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones, it was a hit Broadway musical in 1926 and a 1927 silent film courtesy of Cecil B. DeMille. For decades, the film was assumed to have been lost to time and poor archiving, but the footage was later found in DeMille’s private collection and has now been restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in all its vaudevillian glory. With a knockout score accompanying and whole host of Jazz Age special features,
Chicago is the perfect pick for the history buff, film buff, or wannabe flapper in your life.
Chicago: The Original 1927 Restored Film makes its comeback on Tuesday, July 6.

Stephen King knows a classic storyline when he sees one: A sleepy small town is beset by supernatural forces beyond their understanding, citizens have to fight to survive, chaos ensues. Hey, whatever works! In case your summer hasn’t been sufficiently terrifying, King’s new novel
Under the Dome, out this week, should do the trick, following a huge cast of characters as they face a mysterious,
X-Files-esque force field around their town and learn how (or how not) to survive under their scary new circumstances. The novel’s complex structure gives King a chance to strut his stuff as a master of suspense, leaving the rest of us to have a little more trouble sleeping than usual.
Under the Dome hits shelves on Tuesday, July 6.

Attention, nerds everywhere: You have a new goddess, and her name is Olivia Munn. The G4 Network host and new
Daily Show correspondent proves herself to have that fabled combination of looks
and humor that so many of us can only dream of with her debut collection of essays,
Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek. Munn earns serious geek cred with essays like “What to Do When the Robots Invade (Yes, When!)” but makes sure to stay crush-worthy with other chapters like “Sex: What You Can Do to Help Yourself Have More of It,” not to mention a handy pull-out poster. Even if you don’t happen to have a crush, Munn provides a refreshing take on the parallel universe that is Hollywood and shows off her own comic chops in the process. In the always reliable words of
Jon Favreau, “If
Citizen Kane were a book, this would be it.”
Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek hits shelves on Tuesday, July 6.

Perhaps it’s a bit premature considering the ceremony is nearly a month away—the 62nd Annual Prime-time Emmys air live July 31—but we already have our money on the incredibly original comedic favorites this year
Glee and
Modern Family. Sofia Vergara, who stars as the hysterical young Colombian wife of actor Ed O’Neill on
Modern Family, will join
Community star and host of
The Soup Joel McHale to announce this year’s Emmy nominees. “I have two children and I’ve
never woken up this early for anything,” McHale joked of his announcing honor. But which other names should you expect to be called? Experts at the
Los Angeles Times have their money on
30 Rock and
Curb Your Enthusiasm, while they predict the dramatic series honor will go to
Mad Men,
Lost,
Breaking Bad,
Dexter, and
The Good Wife. Tune in at the crack of dawn to see if your favorites make the cut this year.
The Emmy Awards nominations will be announced Thursday, July 8 on NBC at 8:30 a.m. EST.

Unlike many art exhibitions that focus on culling an impressive number of pieces for viewers, the Guggenheim’s latest,
The Geometry of Kandinsky and Malevich is impressing museum-goers with quality above quantity. The exhibition examines a mere eight paintings from late Russian masters Vasily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich to showcase their impressive approaches to abstract art. Widely considered two of the pioneers of the creative genre, Kandinsky and Malevich each approached the art form differently—the former using geometric motifs and the latter inventing Suprematism—but both made significant contributions. With such a strong emphasis on realism in the previous years, Kandinsky and Malevich truly went outside the box while still using it to create masterpieces art students will hold in esteem for decades to come. Though they say their approaches moved away from the abstract toward the end of their careers in the mid-20th century, both artists exemplify how one can morph something as dull as a circle into something many had never seen before.
The Geometry of Kandinsky and Malevich/a> opens at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Friday, July 9.

You may have overdosed on festivities during Independence Day, but the fun has just begun. For those of who you
don’t live on a nudist colony, Monday marks the start of the most freeing week of the year—Nude Recreation Week. The annual celebration, started by none other than the
American Association for Nude Recreation, features a host of clothing-free events, leading up to its landmark World Record Skinny Dip on Saturday. From expected participants (welcome back, Vermont) to surprising states (Tennessee—really?), nearly 125 locations will participate in the AANR’s attempt to break their own Guinness world record of 13,648 participants on Saturday. “Skinny-dipping, a
wholesome tradition as old as mankind and frequently honored in art and movies, celebrates the natural joy of plunging into water without hindrance of clothing,” the AANR explains in a statement. But even those who see the activity as not-quite vanilla can help their “cause.” An AANR spokeswoman told USA Today, “The faint of heart can get in the water,
take off their suit and raise it above their head and still be officially counted.” C’mon, you know you wanna.
The American Association for Nude Recreation’s
World Record Skinny Dip takes place in clothing-optional areas of the country on Saturday, July 10 at 3 p.m. “Eastern Nudist Time.”