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Ed Sheeran’s being a coward on Gaza. Can you blame him?
Looking closely at the top tier of popular music stars is a bit like measuring a coastline. What you thought at first was one solid mass that could be measured from A to B is more like an ever-shifting mess…
Bourdain’s ’90s gangster novels couldn’t escape the kitchen
Before Anthony Bourdain became Anthony Bourdain, he was writing crime novels about cooks. That’s the strange pleasure of “Three Crime Novels,” a new collection of “Bone in the Throat” (1995), “Gone Bamboo” (1997) and “The Bobby Gold Stories” (2002), re-released…
Sydney Sweeney’s bombshell act masks a career with no endgame
In one of her new ads for the peer-to-peer sports betting platform Novig, actress Sydney Sweeney — wearing nothing but underwear and a football placed suggestively across her bare chest — turns her head toward the camera and looks down…
Hide your vegetables. You’re an adult
The other day, I grated two enormous zucchini into a bowl containing a quarter-can of pumpkin, brown sugar, cocoa powder and enough chopped bittersweet chocolate to make the whole operation look suspiciously like brownie batter. Which, essentially, it was. The…
Jasmine Crockett’s praise of Chris Brown hit a nerve
This story was originally published by The 19th. This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. What happened: Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat,…
The Kennedy Center culture war just got very online
President Donald Trump continue pushing to reshape the Kennedy Center, including an attempt at renaming and touting Trump-branded upgrades. Now, a writer from the long-running animated adult comedy show “South Park” has stepped in with a quieter but pointed move:…
Mariska Hargitay’s Emmy hosting is a crime against TV
On paper, selecting “Law & Order: SVU” star Mariska Hargitay as host of the 2026 Emmys telecast probably made sense. Hargitay has had a great run recently: Earlier this month, she won two Emmys for her self-directed 2025 documentary, “My…
Some sequels are destined to disappoint
A family of witches. A picturesque Massachusetts house. A legendary curse. A dead husband. At the start of “Practical Magic 2” — the well-anticipated but not exactly long-overdue sequel to the 1998 cult classic “Practical Magic” — the lives of…
These stewy mushrooms solve Monday night dinner
I always want Mondays to be a lighter lift than they end up being. I am not going to calculate how many working Mondays I’ve had in my life, but even before I was working, I had a Garfield-esque disdain…
There’s a reason that singing along to “September” feels good
A few weeks ago at the end of a dispiriting workday, I dragged my husband to an outdoor show headlined by The Breeders. I nearly talked us out of going, but the effort was worth it for the communal experience.…