Pinkett Smith also unpacks the vitriol she received for rolling her eyes at Rock’s joke — a reaction that some suggested spurred Smith to storm the stage — to illustrate how women are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. “It was easy to spin the story of how the perfect Hollywood megastar had…
A neuroscientist whose studies undergird an experimental Alzheimer’s drug was “reckless” in his failure to keep or provide original data, an offense that “amounts to significant research misconduct,” an investigation by his university has concluded. The drug, simufilam, is made by Cassava Sciences, a pharmaceutical company based in Texas, and is in advanced clinical trials.…
Thirty-three years after the Food and Drug Administration banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 in red lipstick and other cosmetics by linking it to cancer, California has become the first state to ban the chemical in food. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a law this month that outlawed the red dye and…
It was the night of Friday, Oct. 13, and Swifties were trading horror stories. Fans of the pop star Taylor Swift spoke of sold-out arenas and endless Ticketmaster queues. In some cases, their nightmares had come true: They had not been able to secure tickets to the singer’s Eras Tour. Those spurned fans appeared among…
We would never tell you to cook a certain dish just because it’s pretty, but — how pretty is Colu Henry’s sheet-pan chicken with shallots and grapes? To be clear, it’s also delicious, a perfect mix of savory za’atar-dusted chicken thighs, sweet shallots and just-tart-enough grapes. On the table in just over half an hour,…
When an illustrator and a poet went searching for queer stories in the history and mythology of Greco-Roman antiquity, they found nothing less than an army of boyfriends. Specifically, in the fourth century B.C., an elite troop composed only of pairs of gay lovers battled its way across ancient Greece. This battalion of boyfriends is…
On a recent afternoon at the State Fair of Texas, in Dallas, Tori Valdez and Jordan Johnson moved through the crowd to join nearly two dozen customers lined up at the Eat Crispies concession booth. Nearby, gleeful screams emanated from a ride shaped like a double helix, and a child reached into a shoulder holster…
De movimientos lentos, hablar pausado, con un melancólico sentido del humor, mi amante era en muchos sentidos mi hombre ideal. Así que cuando nos dijeron que imitáramos a un hombre en mi taller de drag king, él fue la persona que me vino a la mente. Un taller de drag king es lo que te…