Month: November 2019

Is Courteney Cox okay? Has anyone checked in on her? She just did a go-to rock-bottom move: cut bangs. In a horror movie of an Instagram post, the Friends star explains that she was watching Scream 3, saw her own character, Gale Weathers’s baby bangs, and thought, “I don’t think anything’s that wrong with it.” That isn’t exactly affirmative enough to […]

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Angie Cruz’s latest novel, Dominicana, is inspired by her mother’s life. As a girl in the Dominican Republic, Cruz’s mother was married off to a man twice her age so that her family could immigrate to the United States. In the novel, Cruz imagines her mother’s experience. Set in the 1960s, the book follows 15-year-old […]

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When reading Normal People, I couldn’t help but picture the novel’s smart, guarded female protagonist, Marianne, as Kate Moss, and its hunky but talented male lead, Connell, as Generic Man With Large Forehead. Well, the first images from the set of the novel’s TV adaptation are here and in both regards they do not disappoint. […]

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On Tuesday, Women’s Wear Daily hosted the fourth annual WWD Honors in New York City. The event celebrated a range of industry leaders. Fashion designer Giorgio Armani was given the John B. Fairchild Honor, named after the publication’s former publisher and editor-in-chief who died in 2015. Other honorees included Mary Dillon, Ulta Beauty’s chief executive […]

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California representative Katie Hill resigned on Sunday, 12 days after a right-wing website published intimate photos of her and a campaign staffer taken without her consent. Though Hill acknowledged that the relationship was unethical, she repeatedly emphasized that the publication of the photos was incredibly violating, against the law, and potentially orchestrated by her ex-husband, […]

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The first time I met Lyndsay Caleo and Fitzhugh Karol, who in 2007 launched their Gowanus-based real-estate firm the Brooklyn Home Company (which builds out spaces from the walls all the way to the art that hangs on them), was back in 2010, when New York Magazine featured the couple’s own renovated duplex in Park […]

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