“I was laughing out loud. And I was crying with her.” This is how Elle Fanning remembers the first time she read Rufi Thorpe’s bestseller “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” now a winsome Apple TV series on chosen families, urgent financial realities and motherly resilience created by TV powerhouse David E. Kelley (“Big Little Lies”) with … Read more
Popsmith cofounder Tal Moore beat the odds when Oprah chose his high-end stovetop popcorn popper for her coveted “Favorite Things” list. Loading audio narration… Moore said an Oprah Daily editor told him the team reviews about 15,000 products a year before Oprah makes her final picks. In 2024, the Popsmith popper made the cut. Within … Read more
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Laura Taylor, the 54-year-old founder and CEO of Mingle Mocktails, based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The following has been edited for length and clarity. My goal was always to be a working woman — to wear power suits, have a corner office, and be financially independent. I … Read more
Last year, when West Covina native and party promoter Bryant Acosta took a hard look at the candidates running for mayor of Los Angeles, he noticed a void he could not ignore. “On the Democratic side, I saw a lot of political experience but weak records of actual execution — this was one of my … Read more
Mindy Kaling says becoming a mom changed the way she thinks about her health. Loading audio narration… Speaking to Bustle in an interview published on Tuesday, Kaling reflected on her weight-loss journey and the public scrutiny that comes with it. “It’s sometimes no fun when one of your favorite actors loses weight. You have an … Read more
Nearly 50 years on from “Star Wars” and the launch of a media empire (large or small “e”? You decide), the fandom has become its own galaxy of warring planets. But based on the success of the streaming series “The Mandalorian,” set around the title bounty hunter, we can all agree that his charge Grogu … Read more
On a sunny afternoon in the spring of 2023, my phone lit up with texts from several friends sharing a video of Vice President Kamala Harris leaving a Washington, D.C., record store. Dressed in a navy blue suit and flanked by stone-faced Secret Service agents, Harris casually approached a cluster of reporters, one of whom … Read more
Conor Oberst was still a boyish 24-year-old from Omaha when he dropped the pair of albums that took his band Bright Eyes from indie-rock celebrity to voice-of-a-generation prestige. Released on the same day in January 2005, “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning” and “Digital Ash in a Digital Urn” pondered love, war, drugs and technology against … Read more
While reflecting upon her four-decade-long career in “Kylie,” an intimate new three-part Netflix documentary, Kylie Minogue says a throwaway line that anchors the endeavor: “Life makes sense to me onstage.” Considering how she’s made 17 albums, sold 80 million records worldwide, her songs have been streamed over 5 billion times, and how she’s Australia’s bestselling … Read more
SAN DIEGO — Sitting in the Petco Park visiting dugout Monday afternoon, Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes would have preferred to be answering a different set of questions about the team’s rotation depth. In spring training, it was all about how many difficult decisions the Dodgers had in front of them because of the quality depth they’d … Read more
Keara Callahan thought she was doing everything right. She went to college, earned a degree in economics, and landed a well-paying government job as a tech consultant. Loading audio narration… But she still felt something was missing. Watching endless TikTok videos of young people traveling and living freely only deepened that feeling. In 2024, after … Read more
I’m the kind of mom who wears an outfit themed in the color of my kids’ uniform on game days, and I’m always saying things from the sidelines like “you got this,” and” and “keep it up!” Loading audio narration… For more than 10 years, I’ve been a sports mom attending basketball, volleyball, and soccer … Read more
Actor A. Russell Andrews, whose credits include “Straight Outta Compton,” “Insecure” and “Better Call Saul,” says he is living with ALS, the same disease that claimed the life of actor Eric Dane in February. Andrews initially thought he had a stroke during the COVID-19 lockdowns, he told Elex Michaelson of CNN on “The Story Is,” … Read more
Anderson Cooper has signed off from “60 Minutes” for the last time. After two decades as a correspondent on the CBS’ news magazine, he officially ended his run Sunday night. Cooper, who also hosts a news program on CNN, announced in February his plans to leave CBS, months after an internal shake-up that followed the … Read more
The best way to incite a riot at a rock club? Start talking about when — exactly — the style of music was born. The same holds doubly true for punk. The hectic, electrified, primal scream of a genre can be traced to the 1960s, but really came alive in the ‘70s. Some fans say … Read more