Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter party on with Bill and Ted
These movies helped bring a bodacious bounty of slang into the wider lexicon while providing early career boosts to their leading men, Alex Winter (Bill) and Keanu Reeves (Ted). Three...
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Bully’s Alicia Bognanno is revealing herself, one rock song at a time
Alicia Bognanno has a horror-movie scream — not the shriek of the beleaguered heroine so much as the guttural howl of the demon pursuing her. "I'm trying to hide from...
She was more than just the ‘most beautiful suffragist’
One of the great, though tragic, chapters of the road to suffrage, Inez Milholland's story, like so many others of women's history, is little known to the wider public. The...
Fires, blackouts, a heat wave and a pandemic: California’s ‘horrible’ month
Even for a state accustomed to disaster, August has been a terrible month. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/california-wildfires-vacaville.html
‘Finally the country sees us.’ Women of color cheer Harris’ rise
As Kamala Harris, whose father immigrated from Jamaica and whose mother immigrated from India, reaches the highest echelons of American politics, dozens of women of color said they also view...
Pleasantly bitter and thoroughly grown-up, no alcohol needed
What if there were a nonalcoholic beverage worth lingering over? The kind of drink that deserves to be held in the mouth and rolled across the palate, the kind that...
You may not know this pandemic winner, but your tween probably does
For children, there are pandemic victors, too — and chief among them is 14-year-old Roblox, which was already popular but has become wildly so since people have been urged to...
These Uber drivers are stressed. Archery soothes them.
Archery provided a way to exercise, socialize at a distance and offer prayers for the city's speedy comeback.
How Kamala Harris’ family in India helped shape her values
Although Kamala Harris has been more understated about her Indian heritage than her experience as a Black woman, her path to U.S. vice-presidential pick has also been guided by the...
No-contact rescues: How lifeguards have changed their ways
As it has with so many other aspects of life, the pandemic has upended nearly every element of lifeguarding. Ocean rescues are contactless and require guards to shower and sanitize...