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Gayle Kabaker’s “Beach Walk”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Summer is often a special, slower time—a respite from the frenetic activity of the rest of the year—that allows for spending more time with loved ones. For the cover of the…

The Summer of Girly Pop

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is…

Hulk Hogan Unleashes ‘Trumpamania’ at RNC

State of the Union: The professional wrestler visibly energized the audience. “USA! USA! USA!” the crowd chanted as Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, a professional wrestler, took the stage Thursday at the Republican National Convention to endorse Donald…

Are Hollywood’s Jewish Founders Worth Defending?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent Sunday afternoon, I visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which occupies a gleaming Renzo Piano building on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, in Los…

Mr. Clooney, Make Television Great Again

Trump is right about Clooney’s talents. Credit: THIERRY ORBAN/Sygma via Getty Images After George Clooney commandeered the op-ed section of the New York Times to counsel President Joe Biden to depart the presidential race, it was only a matter of…

Lee Isaac Chung’s Upward Spiral

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story To borrow a bit of social-media parlance, “Twisters,” the new disaster movie from the director Lee Isaac Chung, understands the assignment. The movie, which is set in Oklahoma during peak storm…

Dining Out in the “Vanderpump Rules” Universe

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1998, a salt-and-pepper-haired occasional actor named Guillermo Zapata opened the restaurant SUR on a quiet block of Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood. Serving dishes from Zapata’s home country of Argentina,…

TikTok’s Favorite Camera

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2015, Josh Sisk, a freelance photographer in Baltimore, picked up a new Fujifilm X100S digital camera for thirteen hundred dollars. He wanted to use it on vacations and road trips,…