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The scales of trends always seem to seek balance. As more Americans than ever are leaning their diets in a more plant-based direction, inevitably, so...
This morning, as I sliced a ripe banana into a pillowy bowl of fresh yogurt, I wasn't just indifferently throwing together another breakfast. I was...
I wouldn't exactly say the French has been going well. A few decades after I left behind my high school language requirement (and the middling grades...
Do you know where you left your keys? What's the name of that Oscar nominated actor — the one who's not the frontrunner? Is today Tuesday? Do you...
You know that age-old advice that if you're swimming and feel yourself getting pulled out to sea by a rip current, to swim across rather than fighting...
In other "How is everyody doing?" news this month, beverage brand Truly Hard Seltzer announced an "ultra-limited edition" Hot Wing Sauce flavored...
"Despicable," Pope Francis called it recently during his annual address to the world’s ambassadors to the Vatican, urging for a global ban "to...
Just as surely as cats are girls and dogs are boys, everybody knows that salad is girls and meat is boys. A recent study out of Europe, published in...
J. Smith-Cameron misses "Succession" too. "It's hard to get through your head that it's not continuing," the Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor...
"Dry January is hard for me." When Caroline Conner, a wine expert and educator living in Lyon, France, admitted that on her Instagram feed earlier...
I hadn't seen my friend in a long time, and when we met up for brunch I thought she looked great. The years had seemed to have had no effect on her;...
When she posed for Time's 2023 "Person of the Year" cover wearing one of her three cats draped around her neck like a boa, Taylor Swift seemed to...
Buying things is not the same as doing things. Weights don't work unless you pick them up. Books don't read themselves. And those supersized water...
Bianca Del Rio's new tour may be called Dead Inside, but on the outside, she's plenty lively. In the near-decade since her win on "RuPaul's Drag...
It's the time of year for motivational stories. A "new year, new you" narrative, one that's often accompanied by inspiring videos from the gym of a...
When Lily Gladstone accepted her historic Golden Globe award earlier this month, the "Killers of the Flower Moon" star didn't just express her thanks....
I can't handle my drug of choice the way I used to anymore. I used to think it gave me energy and made me fun. Now, even a little too much makes my...
I'm tired of toxic masculinity. I mean, I'm tired of its existence in general, particularly in the corrosive radicalization of our boys and young men....
I'm usually impervious to the siren call of Instagram advertisements, but this one couldn't help but get my attention. From the beautiful Pollen...
Most evenings, I like to get a head start. I kiss my spouse goodnight, put in my earplugs and turn in to bed early. He then comes in a good 30 to 60...
I don't make New Year's resolutions — I disappoint myself enough all year round as it is — but I do like setting modest goals. Making small...
I took the first shot almost as a dare. The breakfast buffet at our hotel in Iceland had been laden with extraordinary delights — smoked fish,...
This is the time of year when even the most antisocial among us find ourselves going to parties and dinners, coughing up treats for family events at...
The holidays always bring up conflicts — not just about family or politics, but important things like which seasonal treats are disgusting and which...
“So, where do young people here go to hang out?” someone had asked from the back of the van. We hadn’t even seen a sheep, let alone another car,...
For an actor who's appeared in blockbuster franchises and earned decades of critical acclaim (He just earned his fourth Golden Globe nomination),...
Think about the last time you ate out. Think about how much it took to get that meal to your table. It took farmers and ranchers and drivers and chefs...
Things have a mysterious way of moving around in my kitchen. Soy sauce I thought I'd seen on a shelf somehow winds up in the door of the refrigerator....
In his later life, my father-in-law routinely woke up for the day at 3 a.m. He'd become such an early bird that he morphed into a night owl, a man...
"This is the one time where I feel like the reporting is written without fear or favor," says author Omid Scobie. As a journalist who's spent over a...
"I never set out to be dangerous," says Robert Smigel. The man behind the bawdy, brazen Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and "Saturday Night Live's"...
Long into my adulthood, Thanksgiving meant a holiday defined by brand names. A Butterball turkey. Ocean Spray cranberry sauce, coaxed out of the can...
Desi Lydic is perfectly happy to answer to the job description of "fake journalist." In her eight years as a correspondent on "The Daily Show," Lydic...
The tremors we felt were minor but ominous. On November 9, the Icelandic Meteorological Office registered roughly 1,400 earthquakes, including a 4.8...
Over the course of the next month, I am taking four substantial roundtrip flights. My daughters, meanwhile, are both traveling home from thousands of...
Boom, it's fall. At least, that's how it's going here in the Netherlands, where the change of seasons has been as abrupt as it has been welcome....
Sohla El-Waylly wants you to make mistakes. She wants you go ahead and mess up. "Anyone who's really good at anything was terrible once," she...
First, there were the emails alerting me to some exciting changes to the practice. There were phone calls. And mailers. Invitations to Zoom sessions...
When I was a child, my mother had a friend with a cat named Crunchy Granola. The friend was pure crunchy granola herself— she served acorn squash...
I never quite do pumpkin season right. Pumpkin spice time, sure. It's easy to slip a cinnamon or nutmeg element into everything from baked goods to...
The actor I was interviewing had the kind of smile that could light up a room. And by that I mean he had a glow in the dark, Ross in season six of...
There is a unique power contained in a room where a woman is giving birth. There is power in the women surrounding her. It's a time of transformation,...
There are an awful lot of tombstones in my neighborhood lately. They bear names like "Noah Scape" and "Izzy Dead." They pop up regularly this time of...
The cloves just didn't smell sufficiently clove-y to me anymore. Based on the date I had scrawled on the lid with a Sharpie, I'd purchased the jar in...
Fran Leibowitz doesn't care. She doesn't care if you're upset that can't reach her because she doesn't have a cell phone. She doesn't care if you...
"Tonight is the first day of the rest of my life," the man says as he primps expectantly. He's successful, he's single — and the first-ever "Golden...
The little girl is ripping out pages from the Bible and devouring them whole. She is a growling, contorting, entity. "Don't be scared," she says. Of...
"I just want to tell you," the bearded, burly man behind the counter gently warned us, "you're ordering a lot here." My daughter and I were at a...
I don't recall exactly when I first discovered the poop shelf. My temporary quarters in the Netherlands are relatively modern, down to the high/low...
We'd awakened early, before the clamor of the city's weekend had begun in earnest. Rose and I had met in high school French class, and now, decades...