
We planned to use our long layover to explore a new city. It completely backfired, but we’d try it again.
I didn’t realize I’d need a visa to leave the airport in Istanbul during my layover. My fiancé and I have a knack for piecing together budget-friendly flights, and last August, we put our skills to the test to attend a wedding in Crete. To save a few hundred bucks on our trip out of…

Matt Bomer says not getting cast as Superman was actually a good thing
Matt Bomer almost played Superman. Somewhere in the multiverse, there’s a live-action Warner Bros. movie (or three) starring Matt Bomer as Superman. Bomer doesn’t particularly care to visit that universe. In 2024, Bomer revealed on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast that he’d been in the running to play Superman in an early iteration of…

Ariana Grande’s new short film includes movie references to ‘X-Men’ and ‘Minority Report.’ Here’s every detail you may have missed.
Ariana Grande released the “Brighter Days Ahead” short film on March 28, 2025. Ariana Grande released “Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead” on Friday, an extended version of her Grammy-nominated seventh studio album. Grande has described “Eternal Sunshine” as a concept album, drawing liberally from Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” The 2004…

YouTubers pitch fan obsession with their lives as a secret weapon for marketers
YouTube creator Jordan Matter. Hey brands, want to sponsor my daughter’s 16th birthday? That was the pitch YouTuber Jordan Matter threw out to a room full of marketers on Thursday during creator startup Spotter’s first upfront-style event. The showcase was an opportunity for YouTubers like Matter, Dude Perfect, Ryan Trahan, and MrBeast to lay out…

If you get laid off, here’s what you can do besides hunt for a job
One recruiter said that volunteering when you’re out of work can help give structure to your day and put the challenges you’re facing in context. If you lose your job, it can feel like the end of the world. The first thing to do is not to panic. The second is to come up with…

I debated not going back to work and staying home with my kids. I’m glad I didn’t because day care gave me my group of friends.
The author met her friends through her kids. Making friends in a new town isn’t easy, especially when working from home and being a married mom of two under 2. But when I sent my kids to day care, I found a few friends along the way who have become like family. Finding common bonds…

FDA recalls over 4,000 bags of ground coffee mislabeled as decaffeinated across 15 states
The FDA recalled hundreds of cases of ground coffee mislabeled as decaffeinated Does your decaf have you twitching? It might be mislabeled coffee. The FDA issued recalls for more than 4,000 bags of Our Family coffee grounds that were mislabeled as decaffeinated, according to a notice released by the agency on March 13. The recall…

Here’s where all the firms in the Trump-Big Law fight stand
President Donald Trump has signed executive orders against legal powerhouses such as Covington & Burling and WilmerHale. President Donald Trump has taken a swing at major law firms over the past month, ordering reviews of government contracts and canceling security clearances for some firm employees. Some have made deals with the president, while others are…

I attended 2 Tesla Takedown protests in Michigan. The generation that showed up was the one I least expected.
Protestors at the Tesla Takedown protest in Ann Arbor. On Saturday morning, I observed nearly 400 protesters gathered outside a Tesla showroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They were armed with flags and cardboard signs, and they said they felt like America’s democracy was under siege. “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Elon Musk has got to go,”…