Olivia Rodrigo has stormed the charts—hitting No. 1 with huge streaming numbers for an album that clinches her status as one of music’s biggest new stars. The Disney actress and pop singer-songwriter’s debut album “Sour” tops the latest Billboard 200 chart, generating the equivalent of 295,000 in U.S. sales in the week ended May 27. […]
Stories starring real people are attracting some of the world’s biggest celebrities, from the Obamas to Kim Kardashian, as nonfiction programming has become essential to companies aiming to build streaming services. Unscripted shows and documentary projects tend to be cheaper to make than their scripted counterparts, offering the potential for bigger profits if they become […]
The process may be more complicated than you think. Many of us haven’t seen even our closest friends for more than a year. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do, and it can be overwhelming to think about where to start. While we’re excited about these reunions, it helps to manage our expectations: […]
BACK IN 2018, we wrote a book called “Brunch Is Hell,” in which we declared the dinner party the cornerstone of civilization—and brunch its evil antithesis. Unlike brunchers at a restaurant, we noted, dinner party hosts selflessly welcome friends and strangers into their homes, provide them with free food and in return ask only that […]
‘A Quiet Place Part II” was supposed to hit the multiplexes immediately after its world premiere in New York in March 2020, but the film went back on the shelf to wait out the pandemic, rather than become streaming fodder. A good thing, too—it’s worthy of the big screen. Speaking professionally, I should note that […]
Eric Carle, the beloved children’s author and illustrator whose classic “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and other works gave millions of kids some of their earliest and most cherished literary memories, has died at age 91. Carle’s family said he died Sunday at his summer studio in Northampton, Mass., with family members at his side. The […]
Photo: Maude Chauvin THERE MAY BE no better quick fix for a food-obsessed American traveler than a trip to Montreal—a top dining destination a whole lot faster to access than, say, Paris. The Canadian border remains closed for now, but as soon as it opens, bring on the brasseries and smoked meat. In the meantime, […]
You may use your fitness tracker mostly to count steps, but don’t ignore your heart-rate metrics—they can tell you a lot about your health. Devices now deliver a variety of heart-rate measurements, including resting rate, walking rate and variability (the variation of time between beats). Some can be programmed to notify you of a possible […]
IN THE LATE 1990s when I was coming of age, Victoria’s Secret loomed large. The company’s notoriously sexy catalog, filled with perfect-seeming “Angels” like Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks, Stephanie Seymour and Karen Mulder, was the focus of jokes on sitcoms and among the kids in my class. My friends and I would travel in giggling, […]
Ray Hamman, 75, a retired information technology executive living in Clarkston, Mich., on his 1972 Honda Z600, as told to A.J. Baime. My wife, Joan, had a Volkswagen when we got married—an unreliable VW for whatever reason. One time we were on a trip, driving from where we lived in Ohio to Denver, to visit […]
