Irwin Rappaport has been an entertainment attorney in Los Angeles for 25 years. He has served as production counsel on more than 185 films, including “Mudbound,” “Okja,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Butler.

FashionThe 19th-century trend was once relegated to geekdom. Now Bella Hadid and Rihanna have helped restore it “I always get compliments from people around my age or in the gen Z category,” says De’Siree Fairley, a 28-year-old elementary school teacher from Virginia. “I believe they admire aesthetics like dark academia and cottagecore, and glasses chains add to that whimsy.” Fairley recently purchased some ornate, gold-beaded glasses chains because she wanted to look like “a quirky librarian who knows about ancient tomes”.

Clipse, the hip-hop duo Pusha T formed with his brother, No Malice, got their start with the help of Pharell Williams. The duo released their first album in 1997, though Pusha T was featured in more singles as time went on. Pusha T co-founded Re-Up Records with his brother in 2004, and formed the hip hop group "Re-Up Gang," with Ab-Liva and Sandman. After one more album as the Clipse, Pusha T and No Malice announced they were taking a break from the duet life, and would be pursuing solo careers.

This love story went from the grocery store aisle to the wedding aisle. Sasha Clements proved that romance can be found in the most mundane of places by sharing the first photo she and husband Corbin Bleu ever took together when they first crossed paths. "Our first pic from when we met… in a grocery store," Sasha captioned her Nov. 6 TikTok, which featured the photo in question. The Canadian actress—who starred in Majority Rules!

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Smithsonian curator John Troutman and blues musician Dom Flemons about a new folk album, Playing for the Man at the Door, from late chronicler Mack McCormick's collection. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7r7zRZ6arn19nfXN%2FjmlvaGhlZH5yhZFsbm1oYW58tLnIrZ%2Bsp56erq950Z6jnpmjmsBurc1mrKeglZa%2FpXnTq5yaq6Wnsm7A0aitnmWfm3qjuNSeqmalpai2pA%3D%3D

It seems obvious, but the value of an artist’s archive depends entirely on the artist: Once you get past the music and instruments and notebooks and start getting into things like clothing and furniture and other possessions, it usually gets a lot less interesting.

When Apple first added a podcast library to the iTunes catalog in 2005, the impending boom of the format was not yet clear. But Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion were ahead of the curve, and their variety podcast “Feast of Fun” (née “Feast of Fools”) was the first to be hosted by an openly gay couple and landed on the first iTunes Top 50 list in 2006.

Redeem now Nora Curl worked in the art world in New York before she moved to Pennsylvania to care for her mom.She started answering antiques questions on JustAnswer, where people can quiz experts.Curl shared how it works, how she made $124,000 from it last year, and why she loves it. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nora Curl, an antiques-appraisal expert from northwestern Pennsylvania. Her job and income have been verified by Insider.

The Lewis Brothers, filmmakers behind digital comedy shorts and a 2021 viral sensation about the late Robin Williams, are heading back to vintage Hollywood for their next project. Jake and Sam Lewis will release “The Cowboy & The Samurai,” a proof-of-concept about the tumultuous relationship between show business bad boys Jack Nicholson and John Belushi.

Stranger than fiction: Jon Ronson tries to get to the truth about conspiracy theorists. Illustration: Michelle ThompsonStranger than fiction: Jon Ronson tries to get to the truth about conspiracy theorists. Illustration: Michelle ThompsonThe ObserverSocietyIt is 20 years since Jon Ronson wrote Them, his eye-popping investigation into conspiracy theorists. Now, in a world awash with tales of paedophile elites and puppet masters, is he any closer to understanding it all?