Billy Crystal lost the home he’d lived in for 46 years, then lost his best friend, Rob Reiner. His new Broadway show, 860, is how he’s working through both.
Hayden Panettiere spent her whole life having her story told by other people. She finally wrote it herself, and just as I was finishing her story, she was gone.
You know you grew up with NBC if you can’t hear “the more you know” without mentally adding the rainbow star and that little jingle. Here’s how a well-meaning PSA campaign became permanent pop-culture punctuation.
Move naturally, eat plants, know your neighbors — that’s basically the whole Blue Zone pitch. Turns out some communities are paying six figures a year for common sense.
S&P Lunch in Manhattan, a century-old sandwich shop across from the Flatiron Building, has survived the Depression, a pandemic closure, and a name change.
Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto delivers a sweeping, emotionally heavy love story about identity, sacrifice, and the secrets families carry across generations. Find out why I gave the book 3.75/5 stars.
Tim Curry somehow spent fifty years becoming one of the most recognizable actors alive while also remaining a complete mystery. Kind of impressive. Read my review of Vagabond.
Penn Badgley channels his You character Joe Goldberg to narrate Kristen Bell’s newest show Nobody Wants This—a full-circle moment for former Gossip Girl co-stars. Watch the wild crossover video.
The true story behind Netflix’s Toxic Town: how a group of Corby mothers took on a negligent council and won a landmark case for environmental justice. I just binged the entire four-episode run of Toxic Town on Netflix...
A group of artists secretly built and lived in an apartment inside a shopping mall for four years—until security finally caught on. Secret Mall Apartment tells the wild true story.
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