And then you heard about “Nope”?I got an email for an untitled Jordan Peele project, my first big audition in a long time. I was assuming it’d be a one-liner or something...
Read moreGood morning. The punishing heat continues where I stay. While I’m turning on the stove occasionally, my meals are mostly running no-cook and salad-adjacent: say, marinated celery salad with chickpeas and Parmesan...
Read moreAfter a two-year hiatus, Melissa Errico is performing a slew of gigs honoring the composers Michel Legrand and Stephen Sondheim. As long as she gets to the airport (which airport again?) on...
Read moreA Three-Bedroom Villa on a Bahrain Island$1.03 MILLION (390,000 BAHRAINI DINARS)This three-bedroom waterfront villa sits on an artificial island in the Persian Gulf, part of a massive resort development called Durrat Al...
Read moreWhen she has the time to get to the airport early, Anne Marie Mitchell, a communications professor in Chicago, will treat herself to a few hours in the airport lounge, either using...
Read moreWhen I pick up a knife, my husband is not nervous, not really. He keeps an eye out. He hovers. Finally, he can’t help himself: He reaches over and gently adjusts my...
Read moreTeva Pharmaceuticals, one of the country’s biggest manufacturers of generic opioids, announced a settlement in principle with some 2,500 local governments, states and tribes over the company’s role in the deadly, ongoing...
Read moreHello from the final week of July! Summer is fully in swing — are you eating your daily ice cream? — and the requests keep coming. This week, I’m helping a reader...
Read moreHeadlinerLe RockEvery few decades, the reset button is pressed on the restaurants in Rockefeller Center. A big year was 1984, with the openings of the Sea Grill and American Festival Cafe by...
Read moreA funny story that B.J. Novak likes to tell from the making of his new movie is about the day he thought he was having a stroke. Are you chuckling yet?At the...
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