This week, the New York Post made the bold claim that chicken parm — breaded chicken breast bathed in marinara sauce and parmesan — is “NYC’s aphrodisiac of choice.” Excuse me, what? Personally, I cannot think of many meals less likely to send me into paroxysms of lust. Nothing against chicken parm, which can be […]
For months, Taylor Swift has been at the center of a convoluted feud over the issue of artists’ rights — something Swift has been vocal about in the past. And it shows no signs of resolving anytime soon. In late June, label owner Scooter Braun shelled out $300 million for Swift’s former label, Big Machine, […]
When preparing for a special occasion, after the hair is done and the makeup set, then comes the dress. “It’s the last thing you put on only when ready, prepared,” Sarah Jessica Parker explains in the foreword to Prabal Gurung’s eponymous monograph. “It’s the period at the end of the sentence.” But in Gurung’s case, […]
Plenty of designers have refused to grant interviews. Cristobal Balenciaga avoided them for 50 years without loss to his reputation, and Madeleine Vionnet was in her 90s when she finally agreed to a piece by Bruce Chatwin. But at least we know what they looked like. Martin Margiela, on the other hand, spent two decades […]
Less than a week after runners Mary Cain and Kara Goucher accused their former Nike Oregon Project coach, Alberto Salazar, of mental and physical abuse, another woman has come out with her own allegations. Amy Yoder Begley was an Indiana state-champion runner before joining the Nike team in 2007. Within months, she was targeted by […]
Follow Me is a weeklong series about personal brands, for better or for worse. Jack Morris and Lauren Bullen are travel influencers who met in Fiji four years ago. At the time, both were already supporting themselves with brand deals, but when they started posting photos as a couple, their following skyrocketed. (Jack’s account, @doyoutravel, currently […]
You may want to give the next street performer you see a second look, because as Tom Felton just pointed out, you never know who they might be. The Harry Potter alum recently delivered an impromptu performance on a busy street in the Czech Republic capital of Prague, and was amused to find that he […]
Lewis Hamilton feels the heavily revised W10 that Mercedes rolled-out on Tuesday was an improvement over last week’s specifications. The German outfit was a low-profile runner during the first week of pre-season testing, with Valtteri Bottas revealing that its 2019 was not handling as well and as consistently as expected. On Tuesday, the Silver Arrows […]
Williams is no longer a racing team worthy of its glorious past but a public enterprise only focused on profits contends former Williams driver Jacques Villeneuve. The Canadian, who won the drivers’ championship for Williams in 1997, believes the beleaguered outfit is currently paying the price for a sum of bad decisions taken in the […]
Mercedes says it will comply with Lewis Hamilton’s request for changes to his dash layout after the Brit lost two seconds in Baku during the Virtual Safety Car period. Hamilton was running two seconds behind race leader and team mate Valtteri Bottas when the VSC was activated in the closing stages of the Azerbaijan Grand […]