NBC said it wouldn’t broadcast the Golden Globes next year, citing a lack of reform in the organizing body behind the annual awards show. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group of international journalists and critics that has bestowed the awards since the 1940s, has been criticized for a lack of diversity and concerns about […]
After months of experimenting with remote work, your company is calling you back to the office. “It’s been weighing on me,” Christina Marcellino, a 34-year-old business development manager for a law firm, says of the back-to-work question. It’s all her working-mom friends in Charlotte, N.C., can talk about. “What is it going to look like? […]
It could only happen in Los Angeles: Celebrity plastic surgeons are getting into the megamansion-building business. The latest entrant to the market is Alex Khadavi, a 48-year-old dermatologist known for everything from Botox to buttock-enhancement procedures as well as for a clientele that has included singer Lance Bass and actor David Hasselhoff. Dr. Khadavi is […]
By WSJ Books Staff May 7, 2021 3:52 pm ET ‘Finding the Mother Tree’ Review: Seeing the Forest One woman’s research changed how we understand the woods. Review by Eugenia Bone. Read the review ‘Ages of American Capitalism’ Review: Road to Chaos A portrait of the U.S.’s economic history as seen in waves of economic […]
A FEW READERS have asked when I will test the Ford Bronco adventure ute, the Blue Oval’s answer to the Jeep Wrangler. I’m looking forward to it, but Bronco production (in Wayne, Mich.) hasn’t even started yet. People seem to have gotten the idea—perhaps from Ford’s relentless, yearlong brand-building campaign—that the Bronco had been out […]
Bill and Melinda Gates aren’t like most couples. But their split highlights a broader phenomenon in American relationships. Divorce after the age of 50, often called “gray divorce,” has risen in recent decades, bucking an overall decline in divorce among younger couples. The reasons for older-age divorces are often different than for younger ones: It’s […]
LIKE A BOTANICAL King Midas, Alexander Hoyle turns lifeless pavement into cottage gardens worthy of bucolic Britain. You can barely tell that the fairy-tale patch in front of the garden designer’s own London apartment—a profusion that includes foxglove and iris—isn’t a patch at all but a group of plantings set atop a mostly flagstone surface […]
THE LAST 12 months have been, among other things, the Year of the Hobby. A lot of moms managed to adopt a new interest during the last year of social distancing whether it was making bread, attempting ceramics, germinating gem lettuce, cycling solo or dabbling in tie-dye. And they likely found time to pursue that […]
When Kenny Lin was a child growing up in southern China, his family didn’t have much money. His entertainment came from nature: keeping pet chickens, climbing trees, chasing frogs. “I’d be that weird kid with some insect in my hand, scaring everyone. But to me, that was fun,” he says. Even in New York City, […]
Jonathan Baker, 40, marketing director for Sid & Ann Mashburn, a renowned men’s and women’s clothier in Atlanta, on his 1995 Jeep Wrangler (YJ), as told to Mike Jordan. I’d always wanted a Jeep. They just appealed to me—the look of them, the Spartan element, the utilitarian type of vibe. I just thought they were […]
