For the most part, presidential inaugurations are moments of communal pageantry. There is music and poetry. There are oaths to recite and vows to make. Everyone smiles for the cameras, and everyone dresses up — for the inauguration...
It is easy for Alex Behr to gush about her son, Eli, whom she describes as a generous and thoughtful college junior who had a serious skateboarding phase.It is much harder for her to talk about his politics....
Nathalie Dupree, a Southern cookbook author, television personality and culinary mentor whose personal life was sometimes as messy as her kitchen, and whose keen interest in literature and politics gave birth to biscuit-fueled salons and a quixotic run...
Last January, Todd Lansky was in the stands of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., with his son Tyler before the Detroit Lions’ most momentous N.F.L. game in about a half-century. The Lions were about to face the...
In Topanga Canyon on Saturday morning, suspended midair from an electricity line, hung the smoldering top of a utility pole. The pole itself had burned away. Its remaining crosspieces resembled a crucifix on fire. By the time Bob...
Annoyed moviegoers may be making incorrect assumptions about why others in the theater are laughing. Some audience members might be chuckling because something onscreen is funny ha-ha; others may be laughing out of discomfort, surprise, or recognition; still...
Follow continuing coverage of the wildfires in Southern California.The lobby of Shutters on the Beach, the luxury oceanfront hotel in Santa Monica that is usually abuzz with tourists and entertainment professionals, had by Thursday transformed into a refuge...
Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer who used images of an AIDS patient and death row inmates to break the boundaries of fashion imagery as the creative mastermind of Benetton’s advertising campaigns, died on Monday. He was 82.His death...
It’s hard to pinpoint when things began to change around here but you might start with the arrival of Yolanda Hadid in 2017.Ms. Hadid, a onetime regular on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” bought a farm just...
In reviews, in theaters and in group texts pinging across the country, “Babygirl,” the erotic thriller starring Nicole Kidman, has proved somewhat divisive. Who has the power, Romy, the high-powered tech executive played by Ms. Kidman, or the...
