Tina Brown has been the guiding hand behind some of our most provocative magazines. Time now for some questions-and-answers with the legendary editor, talking with Tony Dokoupil: It rarely happens that a magazine cover can still make waves 25 years after it hit newsstands. “Demi was totally up for it. […]
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“Star Trek” actor accused of groping struggling model in 1980s
Last Updated Nov 11, 2017 8:25 PM EST NEW YORK — “Star Trek” actor George Takei has denied he groped a struggling model in 1981. Takei said Saturday in a series of tweets that events described in an interview with Scott R. Brunton “simply did not occur.” He says he […]
Duterte to ask Trump to return historic spoils of war
WASHINGTON — When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sits down for his first face-to-face bilateral meeting with President Trump on Monday in Manila, he will come to the table with an unusual request. Duterte wants the United States to return war trophies seized more than 100 years ago: three historic church […]
A place at the table
The hungry and homeless of Philadelphia can always find a place at the table, thanks to a pair of restaurateurs with big hearts and hard-earned personal experience. Nancy Giles serves up their story: Something unusual is happening in the City of Brotherly Love. A new restaurant called Rooster Soup Company […]
How “radical hospitality” feeds Philly’s homeless
The hungry and homeless of Philadelphia can always find a place at the table, thanks to a pair of restaurateurs with big hearts and hard-earned personal experience. Nancy Giles serves up their story: Something unusual is happening in the City of Brotherly Love. A new restaurant called Rooster Soup Company […]
In gardening, veterans find a respite from “darkness”
The Chicago Botanic Garden has a new crop of unlikely green thumbs: veterans. “I was like, what am I getting myself into, I’m a military guy!” said veteran Steve Joseph. Joseph said he was skeptical at first when he heard he could get paid to learn about flowers in the […]
Almanac: The first flying trapeze act
And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: November 12, 1859, 158 years ago today … a day for defying gravity. Aerialist Jules Leotard. Paul Fearn/Alamy For that was the day Jules Leotard performed the world’s first flying trapeze act in Paris. His aerial acrobatics astonished audiences, while his […]
Tori Amos on the “muses” that inspire her songs
Singer-songwriter Tori Amos is one of the most influential women in music. She scored four platinum albums in the 90s and was included on VH1’s list of 100 Greatest Women in Rock ‘n’ Roll. The classically-trained musician just released her 15th album, “Native Invader,” which her daughter also sings on. […]
Here’s looking at you, “Casablanca”
The classic World War II-era film of anti-Nazi intrigue premiered 75 years ago this month — and as Manuel Bojorquez tells us, its biggest fans are already celebrating: In Florida last month, they rounded up 500 of the “usual suspects” for the Humphrey Bogart Film Festival. Fedoras were definitely in […]
Rebel Wilson shares stories of sexual harassment
Last Updated Nov 11, 2017 8:24 PM EST Rebel Wilson has come forward with sexual harassment allegations against an unnamed male co-star and director she worked with in the past. The 37-year-old actress, best known for her roles in the movies “Pitch Perfect” and “Bridesmaids,” took to Twitter on Saturday […]