A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
This multigenerational tale travels from China to New York in search of the true meaning of good fortuneIt’s often said that good luck is the result of good planning: you make your own. But is our luck in life ever entirely under our control? And how much luck, and planning, might be enough? Real Americans, Rachel Khong’s second novel, strikes directly at the heart of these questions. Its Chinese-American characters are brought into contact with fabulous wealth – a prototypical stroke of luck....
"The Sims had really kind of seeded that desire for homeownership in me at a young age," said Elle Hunt, a journalist based in the U.K. "And I'd spent the interim 20 years walking away from that dream a bit."
Joey Fatone is back on tour. Not with the boys of NSYNC, with whom Fatone reunited with recently for a song on Justin Timberlake's album, but with AJ McLean. Yes, that AJ McLean, of the Backstreet Boys, who were notoriously held up as the rivals to Fatone's NSYNC throughout the ‘90s. For the record, any member of either boy band would deny there was ever such a rivalry, chalking it up to a fabricated lie by the media to sell tabloids. Watching Fatone belt out Backstreet Boys bops or McLean doing...
In his new Peacock series Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, the actor Orlando Bloom scales a 400-foot crag, freedives 100 feet on one breath, and jumps out of a plane at 13,000 feet to try wingsuiting for the first time. His wellness practices, as he tells GQ, have involved a similar amount of gutsiness: getting dosed with frog poison, embarking on a fast that involves eating bentonite clay. More than 20 years after Bloom was first introduced to audiences worldwide as the platinum blond elf Legolas in...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham shows how former President Trump can put President Biden's record "on trial" as the NY vs. Trump case takes center stage on "The Ingraham Angle." LAURA INGRAHAM: An impartial observer knows that the New York media is doing everything it can to influence the jury. On the eve of the trial, the illustrious "New York Slimes" published a piece titled "Will a mountain of evidence be enough to convict Trump?" In the official record, the case is known as the People of the...
Baby Reindeer's real-life "Martha" is breaking her silence. Two weeks after the release of the Netflix series, which is based on comedian Richard Gadd's experience with a stalker, the woman who
Warning: The following contains spoilers from "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." Although the events of World War II have been extensively studied, details are still emerging. In fact, documents concerning an essential mission, dubbed Operation Postmaster and undertaken by the British War Office, were only recently declassified. The mission, carried out by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), is the unlikely subject of Guy Ritchie’s latest film, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.”...
Ever wonder what the inside of San Antonio’s iconic Tower Life Building looks like? If so, Amigo Walking Tours is offering a chance to do just that before the 1929 neo-gothic landmark undergoes a multi-million dollar renovation this summer. The distinctive eight-sided office building was the tallest structure in San Antonio until the Tower of the Americas was finished in 1968.
Content warning: This story discusses sexual abuse. Richard Gadd is reining in speculation over his Baby Reindeer characters. The comedian, who based the Netflix show on his personal experiences
In the decade since Kevin Bertin called Portland’s Alberta neighborhood their stomping grounds, like has life'd the comedian, singer, and drag artist around the world. Whenever Bertin goes toe to toe with a bigger personality –whether it’s their best friend, Bob the Drag Queen; the drag legend Lady Bunny; or even the Queen of Pop herself –they win hardest when they stick true to themselves. This sounds easy enough, but Bertin concedes that it’s an ongoing conversation with themselves that...
Richard Gadd’s real stalker, who was the inspiration for the comedian’s hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, is considering legal action against him, according to The Daily Mail. The unnamed woman claimed to the outlet that Gadd didn’t do enough to obscure her true identity in the show, leading to online “death threats and abuse from Richard Gadd supporters.” She accused him of “bullying an older woman on television for fame and fortune,” and said, “He’s using Baby Reindeer to stalk me now. I’m the...