Over the years, there have probably been 10,000 balcony scenes in 10,000 productions of “Romeo and Juliet.” And in that time, Juliet’s spot high above the Capulet garden has been played onstage by a window, a ladder, an Italianate porch, even a chair. There have been as many kinds of balconies as there have been…
During an Oval Office signing event on 10 June, President Donald Trump said, “I love the inflation” in response to a reporter’s question about news that it had surged to a three-year high of 4.2%. The president also revealed that the US has been “taking out millions of barrels of oil” from Iran, saying Tehran…
On Monday, the former music producer Scooter Braun shared a video of himself and his girlfriend, the actress Sydney Sweeney, on a late-night bike ride through Times Square. A day later, Kim Kardashian posted a selfie taken by her boyfriend, the British racecar driver Lewis Hamilton, as they biked alongside the Hudson River. An online…
In little more than a year, Johnny Hilbrant Partridge, a former spin-class instructor, has vaulted from obscurity to social media celebrity thanks to his online character, a private equity banker known as PE Guy. With his punchable face and confident demeanor, he is the prosperous finance bro you love to hate. “We’ve all been at…
The great bowerbirds of northern Australia are well-known for their elaborate tunnels, known as bowers. Pieced together for months by the males, these bowers act as decadent thrones for females to sit in while they watch the males’ dramatic mating display of shakes, swerves and delicate offerings. Male great bowerbirds spend most of the year…
A contestant on the new season of “Love Island USA” was dropped from the reality show after videos of her using a racial slur against Black people surfaced online, just days before the season’s premiere. Peacock, the network that streams the show, confirmed on Sunday that the contestant, Vasana Montgomery, had been dismissed. Montgomery did…
They say you can’t kill a good thing, and that is definitely the case in Ariana Grande’s new video for “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” which co-stars Justin Long. The Christian Breslauer-directed clip opens on Long’s character filling in a grave, ostensibly burying Grande’s character. But as he drives away from the crime…
Love Island USA’s Huda Mustafa, Louis Russell Break Up After Nearly 9 Months After Dating Summer is heating up—and so are Love Island USA’s new batch of Bombshells. On May 28, Peacock revealed the cast of sizzling singles looking for love on season eight of the reality dating competition series. Among the hopefuls headed to…
Frank’s Super Pump After illness forced my father, Frank, into early retirement, our kidney-shaped pool became his occupation, hobby, religion and full-time source of financial ruin. He skimmed it. Shocked it. Tested it. Discussed chlorine like a man briefing NASA. When the pump broke, a large “Super Pump” arrived. My mother stared at it, saying,…
Since the original film came out, the girlboss arose as a cultural icon, then plunged into ignominy. Two highly qualified women lost the presidency to Donald Trump. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, once venerated by millennial feminists, foolishly held on to her job so long that she cost Democrats a Supreme Court seat. The corporate feminism of…
